CSA Project Manager - Enabling Works (Site Based)

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About the Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the delivery team for a major £10 billion hyperscale data centre campus in Northumberland - one of the largest data centre developments in Europe.

The development spans approximately 540,000 sqm across 10 data centre buildings and includes significant enabling works, substation construction, and environmental remediation. With enabling works underway and main construction commencing from 2026, this programme represents a transformative investment in the region and will create thousands of jobs.

We are seeking a CSA Project Manager – Enabling Works to act as the Employer’s lead for CSA project management across Enabling Works Phase B and C, with a primary focus on earthworks, land remediation, drainage, external works, piling interfaces, logistics, environmental compliance, and construction readiness for subsequent data centre delivery.

The Role

The CSA Project Manager – Enabling Works will oversee key enabling works activities, including:

Earthworks and land remediation, including Pulverised Flue Ash (PFA) processing

Site clearance and drainage

Temporary works interfaces

Piling mats and piling interfaces

Access roads and logistics routes

Planning and permitting interfaces

Environmental obligations and compliance

Readiness for future data centre construction activities

This is a client-side oversight and interface management role, focused on monitoring delivery, coordinating stakeholders, and managing risk, programme, compliance, and reporting. The role does not assume responsibility for contractor means and methods, sequencing ownership, or temporary works design.

Key Responsibilities

Complete Phase A enabling works handover and coordinate with GC mobilisation where relevant to Phase B

Manage Phase B Enabling Works for DC03 and DC04 through to February 2027, including piling interfaces

Manage Phase C Enabling Works through to December 2027, including interfaces with DC01 and DC02 construction

Coordinate planning condition discharge and ongoing permitting requirements

Interface with substation construction, temporary and permanent power delivery, and adjacent construction activities

Monitor contractor performance, programme, quality, environmental compliance, and permitting obligations

Manage progress, risk, change control, and reporting across the enabling works scope

Coordinate with design consultants on CSA design, RFIs, technical issues, and change management

Track and support CSA readiness for subsequent construction phases

Key Interfaces

You will work closely with:

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, piling, and wider delivery teams

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a delivery-focused project professional with experience in large-scale infrastructure or CSA-enabled construction environments.

Essential experience and skills

Experience in enabling works, earthworks, external works, or large-scale CSA infrastructure delivery

Strong knowledge of programme management, permits, planning conditions, contractor coordination, and interface management

Experience with piling platforms, haul roads, temporary drainage, site logistics, and environmental obligations

Ability to monitor and challenge contractor delivery without taking ownership of means and methods

Strong reporting, escalation, and stakeholder coordination skills

A structured, proactive, site-focused approach

Personal qualities

Proactive and delivery-focused

Strong interface manager

Detail-oriented and organised

Confident challenging non-compliance

Collaborative and clear communicator

Scope of the Role

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

The role is not responsible for:

CSA management of DC01 and DC02

Contractor means, methods, sequencing, or temporary works design

Direct contractor supervision

Detailed commercial management, quantity surveying, cost consultancy, or contract administration

Specialist ICT, security, controls, BMS, EPMS, or ELV systems

Key Deliverables

Daily

Site monitoring notes and observations

Interface coordination with enabling works and piling contractors

Progress reviews against planned activities

Identification and escalation of issues, risks, and constraints

Tracking RFIs, technical queries, and design issues

Safety, quality, and compliance observations

Action close-out follow-up

Update of key project records and document trackers

Weekly

Progress summary / dashboard

Look-ahead review for upcoming activities and interfaces

Risk and issue log updates

Programme review against the master programme

Coordination meeting inputs and action trackers

Quality / defects / non-conformance summary

Stakeholder delivery updates

Interface status updates across adjacent works and future phases

Monthly

Project report for Enabling Works Phase B

Executive summary on programme, progress, risks, and key decisions

KPI and contractor performance review

Change log and impact summary

Compliance summary covering environmental and planning obligations

Milestone and sectional completion readiness review

Lessons learned and trend analysis

Forecast of upcoming risks, constraints, and key interfaces

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of one of Europe’s most significant hyperscale data centre developments. The position offers the chance to work on a complex, high-profile programme with substantial technical, environmental, and stakeholder interface challenges.

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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