Full-Time

Senior Construction Program Manager

Data Center

Deadline 8/14/27
Linesight

Linesight

1,001-5,000 employees

Global construction consultancy and project management

No salary listed

Toronto, ON, Canada + 6 more

More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Raleigh, NC, USA | Tempe, AZ, USA | New York, NY, USA | Vancouver, BC, Canada

In Person

Bachelor's

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Risk Management
APM

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Requirements
  • Proven experience as a Program Manager or Senior Project Manager on large-scale, complex projects.
  • Strong background delivering data center projects, including hyperscale, colocation, or mission-critical environments preferred.
  • Excellent understanding of project and programme controls, including schedule, cost, and risk.
  • Experience working in a client-side or consultancy environment.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to operate confidently in fast-track, high-pressure environments.
  • Degree qualified in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Responsibilities
  • Lead and manage complex data center programs, often comprising multiple concurrent projects or phases.
  • Act as the primary client interface, building strong relationships and providing strategic leadership.
  • Oversee programme governance, controls, reporting, and assurance.
  • Ensure effective integration of schedule, cost, risk, and change management across the programme.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams, including project managers, cost managers, and project controls specialists.
  • Drive consistency in delivery standards, best practices, and reporting.
  • Proactively identify programme-level risks and mitigation strategies.
  • Support procurement, contracting strategy, and stakeholder coordination.
  • Manage dependencies between design, construction, and commissioning activities.
  • Provide clear, concise reporting to senior client stakeholders and leadership teams.
Desired Qualifications
  • Strong background delivering data center projects in hyperscale, colocation, or mission-critical environments.
  • Professional certifications such as Project Management Professional, Association for Project Management, or Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are an advantage.

Linesight provides professional consultancy and management support to the global construction industry from concept to completion. It uses multidisciplinary teams to offer market analysis, cost planning, risk assessment, and program management, drawing on global insights and local resources. Its long history since 1974, broad sector coverage, and worldwide footprint give it deep experience and local market knowledge that helps clients manage complex projects more effectively. Its goal is to help clients grow and run construction-related businesses by turning insights into practical outcomes across all project stages.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1974

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • June 2026 reports show U.S. construction growth returning, driven by infrastructure and data centers.
  • July 2026 Americas leadership hires expand sales and delivery across data, life sciences, energy.
  • August 2026 market insights emphasize supply-chain and long-lead equipment expertise clients urgently need.

What critics are saying

  • Data-center concentration ties Linesight to hyperscale capex pauses by Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.
  • Rising U.S. construction inflation, 4.5%-5.5% in 2026, squeezes fixed-fee advisory margins.
  • Competing consultancies can commoditize project controls; a lost anchor client would hit growth fast.

What makes Linesight unique

  • Linesight owns project controls, cost management, and procurement for hyperscale data centers globally.
  • Its 155 global data centers and 47 U.S. projects create hard-to-copy benchmarks.
  • The 2026 Project Controls Pathway builds accredited in-house talent and reduces delivery dependence.

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