Senior Construction Manager

2026-10-17T00:00:00

Location: London, Greater London, GB, EC2V 8

Workplace: Any

Company: Digital Realty

Application Deadline: 2026-11-17T10:00:19.373

Job ID: 8303

Category: Design, Engineering & Construction

Work Location: LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom; Denmark; Dublin, Ireland; Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Schedule: Full time

Your Role

As a Senior Construction Manager at Digital Realty, you will play a key role in overseeing the planning, coordination, and delivery of data center construction projects—from new builds to fit-outs and upgrades. You will be responsible for ensuring projects are successfully delivered on time and within budget, while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate will bring a strong understanding of data center construction principles and best practices, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. This position will also contribute to continuously improving the design, scope definition, and execution of our construction programs. The role is site-based, ensuring strong project governance and clear roles/responsibilities across any consultant support.

Key Responsibilities

Manage multiple data center construction projects and supporting infrastructure projects end-to-end (design, tendering, construction, commissioning/hand-over, etc.)

Oversee and monitor on-site works and progress

Communicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders

Lead and manage project teams

Manage contracts and procurement processes

Act as the owner of quality, schedule, cost, HSE (Health, Safety & Environment), and overall project delivery

Manage and supervise contractors and service providers, providing guidance and support

Identify cost-saving opportunities and proactively flag project savings or overruns to protect target values and ensure predictable capacity delivery to the business

Promote and role-model a culture of continuous improvement, partnership, and teamwork through behaviors and communications

Skills & Experience That Will Make the Difference

Strong experience in construction project management, preferably in data centers or a similar mission-critical environment

Strong experience with project management methodologies, including multi-project environments

Proven experience in continuous process improvement, including defining and managing metrics and related KPIs

Experience working in an international environment

Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and decision-making skills

Fluent English (spoken and written)

About the Company

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.

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. You will work with people from different business areas, challenge existing processes, and implement your ideas. We provide plenty of development opportunities to help you build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Training and Development

Join our Data Center Operations team and gain the support to succeed from day one. Our onboarding program prepares you to contribute meaningfully immediately, with clear career pathways and continuous training to support your long-term growth. From onboarding to specialized development, we equip you with the skills and opportunities to make a lasting impact in powering progress.

Safety Culture

Safety isn’t just a priority at Digital; it’s critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data are essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, partners, and customers. We foster 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.

Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Our compensation philosophy is centered on rewarding employees for achieving aligned company values and objectives.

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consultant support.Key ResponsibilitiesManage multiple data center construction projects and supporting infrastructure projects end-to-end (design, tendering, construction, commissioning/hand-over, etc.)Oversee and monitor on-site works and progressCommunicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholdersLead and manage project teamsManage contracts and procurement processes Act as the owner of quality, schedule, cost, HSE (Health, Safety & Environment), and overall project deliveryManage and supervise contractors and service providers, providing guidance and supportIdentify cost-saving opportunities and proactively flag project savings/overruns to protect target values and ensure predictable capacity delivery to the businessPromote and role-model a culture of continuous improvement, partnership, and teamwork through behaviors and communicationsSkills & Experience That Will Make the DifferenceStrong experience in construction project management, preferably in data centers or a
similar mission-critical environmentStrong experience with project management methodologies, including multi-project environmentsProven experience in continuous process improvement, including defining and managing metrics and related KPIsExperience working in an international environmentExcellent interpersonal, organizational, and decision-making skillsFluent English (spoken and written)About the companyA bit about usDigital 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 youOur 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.Training and Development Join our Data Center Operations team and gain the support to succeed from day one. Our onboarding program prepares you to contribute meaningfully right away, with clear career
pathways and continuous training to fuel your long-term growth. From onboarding to specialized development, we equip you with the skills and opportunities to make a lasting impact in Powering ProgressSafety 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 PhilosophyDigital 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.

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