MEPH Project Manager (Site Based)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

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Project Overview

An exceptional opportunity has arisen to join the delivery team for one of the largest hyperscale data centre developments in Europe.

This major £10 billion programme in Northumberland will deliver a campus of approximately 540,000 sqm across 10 data centre buildings, together with major enabling works, substation infrastructure, and environmental remediation. With early enabling works underway and main construction commencing from 2026, the development represents a significant long-term investment in the region and will support the creation of thousands of jobs.

We are seeking a CSA Project Manager – Enabling Works to lead the client-side oversight of key enabling works packages across Phase B and Phase C, supporting safe, compliant, and coordinated delivery while ensuring readiness for subsequent data centre construction activities.

The Opportunity

This is a high-profile Employer-side project management role focused on the successful delivery of enabling works and the management of critical interfaces across a complex live programme.

The role will suit a project professional with strong experience in earthworks, remediation, drainage, external works, logistics, planning and permitting interfaces, environmental obligations, and CSA infrastructure coordination.

The successful candidate will play a central role in monitoring contractor performance, coordinating interfaces across multiple workstreams, managing programme and risk, and maintaining focus on quality, compliance, and delivery readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the completion of Phase A enabling works handover and coordinate with wider mobilisation activities where relevant to Phase B
• Manage Phase B Enabling Works for DC03 and DC04 through to February 2027, including key interfaces with piling works
• Manage Phase C Enabling Works through to December 2027, including interfaces with DC01 and DC02 construction activities
• Oversee earthworks, land remediation, drainage, temporary works interfaces, access roads, logistics routes, and piling platform readiness
• Coordinate planning condition discharge and ongoing permitting requirements
• Interface with substation construction, temporary and permanent power delivery, and adjacent project packages
• Monitor contractor performance in relation to programme, progress, quality, environmental compliance, and permit obligations
• Manage and report on risk, issues, change, progress, and delivery status
• Coordinate with design consultants on CSA design matters, RFIs, technical queries, and change management
• Ensure CSA readiness to support follow-on data centre construction activities

Key Interfaces

The role requires close coordination with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including:

• CSA Project Managers for DC01 / DC02
• CSA Project Managers for DC03 / DC04
• Substation Project Manager
• Planning Consultant
• Building Control Officer
• Building Regulations Principal Designer
• Enabling works contractors, piling contractors, design consultants, and wider delivery teams

About You

The ideal candidate will bring strong client-side or consultancy-side project management capability, with the confidence to oversee contractor delivery, challenge non-compliance, and manage complex interfaces without taking ownership of contractor means and methods.

Experience and skills

• Proven experience in enabling works, earthworks, external works, remediation, or large-scale CSA infrastructure delivery
• Strong understanding of programme management, planning conditions, permits, stakeholder interfaces, and contractor coordination
• Experience of piling platforms, haul roads, temporary drainage, logistics planning, and environmental obligations
• Ability to monitor delivery and drive accountability while maintaining clear boundaries around contractor means, methods, and sequencing
• Strong reporting, issue management, escalation, and stakeholder communication skills
• Experience working within large, complex construction or infrastructure programmes

Personal attributes

• Proactive and site-focused
• Structured, detail-oriented, and delivery-driven
• Strong interface management capability
• Confident in identifying and escalating risk
• Collaborative, clear, and professional communicator

Scope of Role

This position is specifically focused on Enabling Works Phase B and Phase C and associated interfaces.

The role does not include responsibility for:

• CSA management of DC01 and DC02
• Contractor means, methods, sequencing, or temporary works design
• Direct contractor supervision
• Detailed commercial management, cost consultancy, quantity surveying, or contract administration
• Specialist ICT, security, controls, BMS, EPMS, or ELV systems management

Deliverables 

Daily

• Site monitoring notes and observations
• Interface coordination with enabling works and piling contractors
• Progress review against planned activities
• Identification and escalation of issues, risks, clashes, and constraints
• Tracking of RFIs, technical queries, and design issues
• Safety, quality, and compliance observations
• Action tracking and close-out follow-up
• Updating key project records and document trackers

Weekly

• Progress summary and dashboard reporting
• Look-ahead reviews for upcoming activities and interfaces
• Risk and issue log updates
• Programme reviews against the master programme
• Coordination meeting inputs and action tracking
• Quality, defects, and non-conformance summaries
• Stakeholder updates on status, risks, and recovery actions
• Interface status reporting across adjacent packages and future phases

Monthly

• Project reporting for Enabling Works Phase B
• Executive summary of programme, progress, risks, and key decisions
• KPI and contractor performance review
• Change log and impact reporting
• Compliance reporting on environmental and planning obligations
• Milestone and sectional completion readiness reviews
• Lessons learned and trend analysis
• Forecasting of upcoming risks, constraints, and critical interfaces

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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