
Turner & Townsend
Senior Project Manager - High Tech & Data Center
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 27/12/2025
Job overview
Date posted
12/11/2025
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package + relocation
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
27/12/2025
Job description
The Senior Project Manager - High Tech & Data Center role at Turner & Townsend, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, involves leading large-scale, complex infrastructure and real estate projects, with a focus on high-tech and manufacturing construction, including data centers, life sciences facilities, substations, and similarly technical asset classes. Reporting within the Infrastructure department, the role requires full life-cycle project delivery experience from pre-contract to post-contract stages. The Senior Project Manager is expected to manage scope, budget, and schedule; oversee consultant and contractor procurement; lead tendering for main contractors; and establish project budgets aligned with design and client requirements. The position also includes responsibility for identifying and selecting new project sites in line with client strategies and for providing end-to-end project management leadership. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical and commercial acumen, extensive experience working for project management consultancies (PMCs) or developer/client-side organizations, and familiarity with MEP-intensive and data center environments. Turner & Townsend, a global professional services company majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., emphasizes collaboration, sustainability, and digital transformation across real estate, infrastructure, and energy projects. The position offers a dynamic and diverse working environment, career progression opportunities, and participation in high-impact projects across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead and manage the delivery of high-tech and data center construction projects from initiation to completion
- Oversee the full project lifecycle, including pre-contract planning, design coordination, procurement, and post-contract execution
- Identify and select suitable sites in alignment with client strategies for data center and high-tech facilities
- Drive project scope, schedule, and budget decisions to conclusion, ensuring alignment with client expectations
- Manage internal and external project teams, contractors, and vendors to achieve project milestones
- Lead and manage consultant and contractor procurement processes including tendering for main contractors
- Establish and manage project budgets, analyze design impacts on build costs, and prepare approval documentation for clients
- Ensure adherence to project management frameworks, risk management protocols, and quality assurance processes
- Collaborate closely with commercial, design, and technical teams to resolve issues and optimize project delivery
- Represent the company in client-facing engagements, maintaining effective communication and stakeholder alignment
Experience & skills
- Hold a degree in architecture, civil engineering, M&E engineering, construction management, or an equivalent technical or engineering qualification
- Have prior experience working for project management consultancies (PMCs) or developer/client-side roles
- Demonstrate experience managing data center or similarly complex high-tech, hospital, or MEP-intensive projects
- Show capability in both pre-contract and post-contract phases of large-scale project delivery
- Possess strong technical and commercial awareness with an understanding of construction and contractual processes
- Demonstrate site acquisition and feasibility analysis experience beneficial to project initiation
- Display strong project control, budgeting, and cost management capabilities
- Exhibit effective leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills suitable for cross-functional teams and stakeholder management
- Be motivated, self-driven, and adaptable, with a focus on delivering high-quality outcomes in complex environments