Property Critical Infrastructure (MEP) Manager - Data Centre

End date

Thursday 26 September 2024

Salary range

£57,546 - £63,940

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Job description

JOB TITLE: Property Critical Infrastructure (MEP) Manager - Data Centre

LOCATION(S): Peterborough & Corby

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Flexible working and commuting distance to the data centre to be onsite

About this Opportunity

The Construction and Standards team are responsible for the design and construction of Group Property's estate. The team consists of construction specialists and provides assurance that the work undertaken to our estate is safe and effective. The team is also responsible for the delivery of a safe, resilient, and sustainable data centre infrastructure. This is essential for the continuity of the Group as a whole, with any disruptions having a direct impact to customers and colleagues.

The new candidate will be responsible for retaining and building relationships with colleagues and stakeholders and regularly reporting to the line manager on findings and any remedial plans required.

The candidate for this role needs to be based within commuting distance from the principal data centre locations in the East Midlands.

What you'll be doing

• Attend all internal pre-construction investment steering groups and working group meetings, to assist internal stakeholders with all MEP matters in a clear, concise and jargon free manner.
• Manage all construction technical matters and queries and as a junction between our MEP consultant engineers, framework contractors, and construction oversight partners.
• Be familiar with the groups MEP & construction standards to aid the suppliers in ensuring these are met. Constantly monitor evolving trends and regulations change to ensure standards are current and submit all changes to the lead engineer.
• Dealing with incident management within the groups key data centres and critical buildings. This shall include managing the escalation process to key stakeholders and contributing towards resolutions with the groups supply chain partners. These incidents are rare and may occur out-with normal working hours, therefore a willingness to support the group through these periods is required.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement with the Group's suppliers.
• Chair meeting and liaise with stakeholders and key suppliers. I.e MEP consultant partners.
• Attend alternating project construction meetings to support our framework contractors when required and in parallel with our MEP consultants.
• Manage construction aspects to ensure the site environment, health & safety, wellbeing, quality, and commissioning of the project is reported in a timely manner.
• Identify and mitigate embedded MEP services that impose a risk to project timeline and quality. The ability to identify trends, key issues or critical path risk is fundamental to the role.
• Manage own resources and track progress for reporting to line manager/ lead engineer.

What you'll need

• Significant Industry Experience (required).
• Ideally located in the East Midlands area.
• Relevant bachelor's degree in a property, engineering or construction related field. (required).
• MEP related construction experience essential with a focus on project management.
• Knowledge of building safety legislation, building standards, construction contracts and health and safety requirements essential.
• Experience of working in diverse teams with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of working with common construction software preferred i.e AutoCAD, BIM, Document Management Portals etc.
• Experience and knowledge of sustainability pledges and the impact on the design and & implementation of M&E systems.
• Experience of working with critical infrastructure to meet the required resiliency.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.