Construction Manager

Your role 
As a Construction Manager, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the planning, coordination, and execution of construction projects related to data centre facilities. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful completion of projects within budget and on schedule, while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and client satisfaction. 

The Digital Realty Construction Manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, and oversight of the construction of our facilities which range from full builds to fit-outs, upgrades, landing stations or infrastructure. This includes managing budgets, schedules, and resources, as well as ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest Safety & quality standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of data centre construction principles and practices, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 

In addition, this role will assist with improving the conception, definition and execution of our construction projects and be based on site full time whilst maintaining best practices as well as clear roles & responsibilities for any consultant support. 

The primary purpose of the role will ensure consistent, efficient, predictable, timely and high-quality execution of our construction projects.

What you’ll do 

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of data center construction projects, including new builds, fit-outs, upgrades, and infrastructure projects. 

• Develop and manage project plans, budgets, schedules, resources, and performance metrics to ensure successful project outcomes. 

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders, contractors, consultants, vendors, and customers to align project objectives and execution plans. 

• Oversee all phases of construction, from design development and procurement through construction, commissioning, and project closeout. 

• Champion a strong safety culture by partnering with Health & Safety teams and ensuring compliance with all safety requirements and standards. 

• Monitor project progress, manage risks, resolve issues, and drive corrective actions to maintain schedule, budget, and quality targets. 

• Manage contracts, change requests, contractor payments, cost controls, financial tracking, and value engineering initiatives.

• Establish and maintain project governance, reporting, communication structures, and stakeholder engagement across local and global teams. 

• Conduct quality inspections, audits, and reviews to ensure compliance with project specifications, regulatory requirements, and industry standards. 

• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, cost savings initiatives, and best-practice adoption across construction projects.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

• Proven experience managing large-scale construction projects, preferably within data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similar complex environments. 

• Strong knowledge of construction project management methodologies, processes, and industry best practices. 

• Familiarity with data center infrastructure, design principles, and MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) systems. 

• Demonstrated experience managing project budgets, schedules, contractors, risk mitigation, KPIs, and financial controls.

• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, negotiation, communication, influencing, and people management skills. 

• Experience driving continuous process improvement, governance frameworks, and performance reporting. 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and attention-to-detail capabilities, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. 

• Fluency in English, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, is essential.

• Proficiency with project management tools and software, along with a customer-focused, proactive, adaptable, and collaborative approach.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
 

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.