Sobre este puesto de PMC Lead / Site Director – Onsite (Saudi National Only) en Decima International
Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:
Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.
PMC Lead / Site Director – Data Center
Full-Time Onsite
Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across the industries we serve.
We are seeking an experienced PMC Lead / Site Director to lead the delivery of a major hyperscale data center project. The role will serve as the PMC’s single point of accountability to the Owner, providing overall leadership across project governance, stakeholder coordination, performance management, and executive reporting.
The successful candidate will oversee project delivery against cost, schedule, quality, safety, and commissioning objectives while coordinating closely with the Owner, Site Supervision Consultant, designers, contractors, and other key stakeholders.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as the PMC’s primary point of accountability to the Owner for overall project delivery.
- Lead project governance, coordination, decision-making, and escalation processes.
- Provide strategic leadership across construction, project controls, commercial, quality, HSE, and commissioning functions.
- Coordinate activities between the Owner, Site Supervision Consultant, designers, contractors, vendors, utility providers, and other stakeholders.
- Monitor overall project performance against approved cost, schedule, quality, safety, and commissioning objectives.
- Ensure project risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are identified, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner.
- Lead executive-level project meetings, governance reviews, and performance discussions.
- Review and challenge project progress, forecasts, key milestones, and contractor performance.
- Ensure alignment between design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
- Oversee the performance of the PMC project team and ensure clear accountability across disciplines.
- Review and approve key project reports, recommendations, escalations, and management submissions.
- Provide executive reporting to the Owner covering project status, risks, decisions, and required actions.
- Escalate critical project issues to the Owner with clear recommendations and mitigation strategies.
- Ensure compliance with contractual requirements, project procedures, governance frameworks, and applicable standards.
- Support commercial, contractual, and change management decisions as required.
- Drive collaboration across all project stakeholders to support timely and successful project completion.
- Lead readiness for major stage gates, commissioning milestones, handover, and final project closeout.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Relevant professional certification or chartered status.
- Minimum 15–20 years of overall professional experience in major construction, infrastructure, or mission-critical project delivery.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant project management or project leadership experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience on similar large-scale projects.
- Demonstrated experience delivering at least one hyperscale data center project of 50MW or greater.
- Strong experience leading complex multidisciplinary project teams.
- Extensive knowledge of project governance, stakeholder management, construction delivery, project controls, commercial management, quality, HSE, and commissioning.
- Proven ability to manage multiple contractors, consultants, designers, and stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of cost, schedule, risk, quality, safety, and commissioning performance management.
- Experience providing executive-level project reporting and recommendations to clients or Owners.
- Strong decision-making, negotiation, escalation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- MRICS or equivalent professional accreditation.
- Chartered Engineer status or equivalent.
- Experience working on hyperscale or mission-critical data center developments.
- Experience within a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) environment.
- Strong familiarity with EPC, design-build, and multi-contractor project delivery models.
- Experience working in KSA or the wider GCC region.
- Knowledge of international construction contracts and project governance standards.
POSITION DETAILS
- Position: PMC Lead / Site Director
- Work Setting: Full-Time Onsite
- Role Type: RFP Mandatory Key Personnel
- Reporting To: Owner / Client Leadership
- Industry: Hyperscale Data Centers / Mission-Critical Construction
PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Project Controls Platforms
- Executive Reporting Dashboards
- Risk and Action Tracking Systems
- Document Management Systems
Decima International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to the safety and well-being of all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.
