Associate Commissioning Owners Representative - Data Centres (Finland)

Arcadis; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Glasgow seeks a Project Manager for commissioning processes. You will manage multiple projects, ensuring quality and compliance while collaborating with stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in large-scale technical projects, particularly data centres, and must be willing to travel internationally. Join us to contribute to sustainable solutions and a better quality of life.

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of large-scale technical projects.
• Experience with hyperscale data centre builds preferred.
• Willingness to travel internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate project management of commissioning.
• Review design and tender documents for suitability.
• Generate commissioning dashboards and reports.

Skills

Project management

Construction techniques

Data centre projects

Technical discipline management

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Our collective expertise enables us to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver greater impact together.

Role Description

The role will be responsible for the project management of the commissioning process from the project’s commencement to its close‑out. Working collaboratively with stakeholders, general contractors, commissioning agents, and architecture/engineering consultants, you will lead, coordinate, track, and drive all parties’ activities to deliver a well‑managed and successful conclusion to the commissioning process.

The scope of service is not limited to a single project; you will support multiple projects of various sizes and at different stages. You can be based 100% in the country, or there will be significant international travel to Finland.

Role Accountabilities

Design

• Review the design at key stages and provide comments related to its suitability for commissioning.
• Attend design page turns at key stages.
• Review specification commissioning clauses and support their drafting.

Procurement

• Review tender documents and trade packages before issue to ensure the scope of services/works being tendered supports the project’s commissioning requirements.
• Review fee proposals and trade contractor tender returns prior to appointment to ensure offers are compliant and satisfactorily support the commissioning requirements.

Meetings

• Attend quality kick‑off meetings.
• Provide leadership support for site quality induction and observe/audit delivery to ensure alignment with client requirements.
• Attend daily startup meetings and chair daily/weekly commissioning meetings.
• Attend the weekly quality meeting and progress meeting to report on commissioning status.
• Attend site MEP coordination meetings, pull‑planning meetings, first‑of‑kind meetings, preparatory meetings, design review meetings, and any other project‑coordination level meetings as required.

Reporting

• Generate a commissioning dashboard that captures stats and data, metric assessment, and other quality/commissioning weekly reports and significant events.
• Provide data in connection with commission progress for the monthly DC status report.
• Help transfer lessons‑learned information from site team to site team.

Qualifications & Experience

• An in‑depth understanding of large‑scale technical projects and construction techniques.
• Capability to manage technical disciplines.
• Experience working on data centre new‑build and refurbishment projects, preferably on hyperscale builds.
• Ability to commit to significant international travel.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters and we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, allowing you to 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 help deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, colleagues, clients, life, and the world around you.

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. We aspire to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. By working together, diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of how we improve quality of life. 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.