Job Description
📢 Project Director – Flagship Data Centre Project | Central London
💼 Salary: Executive-level package (DOE) + Benefits
📍 Location: Central London
🏗️ Sector: Construction | Data Centres | Mission Critical | Design & Build
🕵️ ♂️ For my client – a forward-thinking, highly respected regional contractor delivering complex, technically led projects
Are you a senior construction leader with a proven track record delivering major, mission-critical schemes? Do you thrive in technically demanding environments where leadership, strategy, and precision are paramount?
I’m recruiting on behalf of an outstanding regional construction business to appoint a Project Director to lead the delivery of a flagship data centre project in Central London, with an estimated site value of c. £200m.
This is a pivotal, high-profile role within the business and represents a rare opportunity to take ownership of one of the most significant projects in its portfolio.
🏗️ The Role
As Project Director, you will have full responsibility for the successful end-to-end delivery of this landmark data centre project, from pre-construction through to completion and handover.
You will act as the senior client-facing lead, setting project strategy, driving programme and commercial performance, and ensuring the highest standards of safety, quality, and technical excellence.
Working closely with internal teams, consultants, and key supply-chain partners, you will lead a large, multidisciplinary delivery team and report directly at board level.
Key responsibilities include:
- Overall leadership and governance of a £200m+ data centre project
- Acting as the primary interface with the client, consultants, and stakeholders
- Driving programme certainty, risk management, and commercial control
- Leading and mentoring senior project, commercial, and site teams
- Ensuring best-in-class standards in health & safety, quality, sustainability, and commissioning
- Representing the business on a flagship scheme within a competitive, high-profile London market
✅ Ideal Candidate Profile
- Proven experience as a Project Director / Senior Project Director delivering major projects (£100m+)
- Strong background in data centres, mission-critical, or highly serviced technical buildings
- Excellent commercial awareness and experience managing complex delivery strategies
- Confident operating at client, board, and investor level
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience delivering projects in live or constrained urban environments
💰 What’s on Offer
- Executive-level salary and comprehensive benefits package
- Opportunity to lead a career-defining, flagship data centre project
- Join a progressive, high-quality regional contractor with a strong national reputation
- High level of autonomy and influence within the business
- Clear long-term progression and involvement in future mission-critical projects
📩 Interested?
If you’re an accomplished Project Director looking to lead one of London’s most significant data centre developments with a contractor renowned for quality and collaboration, get in touch today for a confidential discussion.
Shortlisting is underway - early interest is encouraged.