Site Manager - Date Center
Role Overview
The Site Manager is accountable for successful data center project execution from installation through integrated systems testing, operational readiness, handover, and warranty support.
The scope covers electrical, mechanical, ELV, ICT, security, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, fire alarm and suppression, controls, commissioning, and client handover.
Key Skills for This Role
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Purpose and scope
The Site Manager is accountable for successful data center project execution from installation through integrated systems testing, operational readiness, handover, and warranty support.
The scope covers electrical, mechanical, ELV, ICT, security, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, fire alarm and suppression, controls, commissioning, and client handover.
Site leadership and delivery
- Lead site construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
- Ensure delivery within budget, schedule, quality, contractual, and performance requirements.
- Manage site and commissioning teams, supervisors, subcontractors, and vendors.
- Represent the site to the client, consultant, and authorities.
- Report project performance, risks, schedule recovery plans, and commissioning status to project and regional leaders.
Safety, health, and environment
- Promote a zero-harm safety culture and ensure compliance with company HSE policies, local regulations, client requirements, and international standards.
- Lead toolbox talks, safety walks, hazard identification, and risk mitigation.
- Verify Permit-to-Work, LOTO, energized-work controls, and confined-space requirements.
- Investigate incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions and implement corrective actions.
- Manage environmental compliance, including waste, spill prevention, pollution control, energy efficiency, and reporting.
- Coordinate emergency response drills and maintain site emergency preparedness.
Installation and pre-functional testing
- Oversee FAT follow-up, equipment delivery, storage, preservation, and installation readiness.
- Coordinate installation of MV/LV systems, UPS, generators, transformers, STS, RPPs, busways, cooling and fuel systems, and data hall infrastructure.
- Ensure quality inspections, punch-list management, and construction completion requirements.
- Control equipment startup, calibration, loop checks, point-to-point verification, and functional testing.
- Ensure pre-functional checklists and test records are complete before integrated testing.
Integrated systems testing
- Lead and coordinate Level 4 Integrated Systems Testing activities and validate sequences of operation for critical systems.
- Manage integrated testing across electrical, mechanical, BMS, EPMS, fire alarm, security, and network systems.
- Lead failover, redundancy, utility loss, generator transition, UPS battery autonomy, and cooling failure tests.
- Coordinate client witnesses, consultants, OEM representatives, and commissioning agents.
- Manage deficiencies, issue resolution, and retesting; ensure test scripts, reports, and signoffs are completed and approved.
Performance testing and readiness
- Lead Level 5 testing and operational validation, including full- and partial-load tests, load bank operations, and reliability demonstrations.
- Oversee black building, endurance, emergency response, and mission-critical failure-simulation tests.
- Validate applicable Tier requirements, resilience objectives, and operational performance criteria.
- Ensure operations team training, knowledge transfer, and readiness assessments are complete.
- Confirm systems operate reliably in normal, degraded, and emergency conditions before handover; obtain client acceptance and operational readiness certification.
Documentation and reporting
- Maintain commissioning matrices, event trackers, risk registers, and issue logs.
- Document delays, disrupted testing, and resource impacts for claim support, including client-caused delays and requirements beyond contractual allowances.
- Complete turnover packages, O&M manuals, as-built drawings, and training records.
- Provide weekly and monthly reports on safety, quality, schedule, commercial risks, commissioning progress, and client satisfaction.
Qualifications
- The source lists team management, flexibility and reliability, technical attention to detail, customer focus, teamwork, and communication among the qualifications.
- The source begins an English qualifications section but ends mid-sentence; no specific education level or completed English requirement is stated.
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