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The Role
As a Senior Project Manager, you'll oversee large-scale, mission-critical data center projects, managing daily project operations from pre-construction to handover, ensuring quality and schedule alignment.
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About the job
Overwatch EMEA extends Overwatch Mission Critical’s proven delivery model across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We provide construction professional services, talent acquisition, and delivery leadership for mission-critical infrastructure projects, applying the same operational discipline, reliability, and veteran-led expertise that define our work in the United States.
From greenfield development to complex retrofits and live-site operations, our teams support the safe, efficient delivery of high-performance data center environments. At Overwatch, it’s more than a job - it’s a purpose.
Position Overview
As a Senior Project Manager, you will play a key role within the Overwatch EMEA delivery team, supporting the execution of large-scale, mission-critical data center projects across Spain.
Acting as an on-site representative of the owner, you will be responsible for managing day-to-day project delivery from pre-construction through commissioning and handover. Working closely with the Head of Construction and wider owner, design, and contractor teams, you will drive schedule certainty, cost control, quality assurance, and risk management across fast-paced capital programs.
Responsibilities
- Support end-to-end project delivery for mission-critical data center developments, from early works through commissioning and handover
- Manage day-to-day coordination between design, engineering, construction, utilities, and commissioning stakeholders
- Lead pre-construction activities including scope validation, constructability reviews, logistics planning, and site mobilisation
- Manage project schedules, progress tracking, and reporting, ensuring alignment with overall program milestones
- Support procurement and contracting strategies, including EPC/GC and multi-package delivery models
- Oversee contractor performance across safety, quality, cost, and schedule metrics
- Assist with development and management of project budgets, forecasts, cost reports, and change control processes
- Identify project risks and constraints, supporting mitigation planning and issue resolution
- Conduct regular site presence to validate construction progress, safety compliance, and quality standards
- Maintain clear and consistent communication with client stakeholders and internal leadership
- Support commissioning readiness, operational handover, and close-out documentation
- Ensure compliance with HSE, quality assurance, and regulatory requirements at all times
Qualifications
- Proven experience delivering complex construction projects, preferably within mission-critical or data center environments
- Solid understanding of data center construction methodologies, MEP systems, and commissioning processes
- Experience working with EPC/GC contractors, OFCI equipment, and utility coordination
- Strong project scheduling, tracking, and reporting skills (P6 or equivalent)
- Demonstrated experience in cost control, forecasting, and change management
- Ability to operate effectively in an owner-side or consultancy-led delivery role
- Professional fluency in Spanish and English
- Strong communication skills with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders in high-pressure environments
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OVERWATCH EMEA is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. OVERWATCH EMEA considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Top Skills
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The Company
What We Do
The fifth industrial revolution is here, and it runs on data centers and the skilled labor who build and sustain them.
Behind every AI breakthrough, cloud platform, and digital connection is a data center, and behind every data center are the people who build, commission, and operate them.
By bringing blue-collar jobs back to the front lines of innovation, Overwatch(SDVOSB) is proving that the future of technology depends on human expertise as much as it does on machines.
Your mission-critical journey starts and scales with us. We deliver end-to-end solutions for the data center lifecycle, design, build, staffing, and sustainment, powered by a workforce you can trust.
