Project Principal

Overview

As Project Principal at HDR you lead large, multidisciplinary data centre programs, guiding delivery from concept through completion. You’ll partner with clients to ensure technical excellence, schedule adherence, and commercial success on mission-critical projects. Your work supports HDR’s mission to advance technology, sustainability, and human experience in built environments. This role combines leadership, technical rigor, and strategic business development to drive growth and project impact in a dynamic, employee-owned culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead full lifecycle delivery of large-scale data centre projects (typically 100m+)
• Manage multidisciplinary engineering, construction, commissioning and operational teams
• Act as a senior client partner resolving challenges and ensuring expectations are exceeded
• Drive programme excellence: scope, cost, quality, risk, safety and schedule
• Oversee contractor performance, procurement strategy, and commercial governance
• Champion technical standards and ensuring all systems meet the highest levels of resilience and availability
• Report at executive level, ensuring transparent and proactive communication at all stages

Key requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering
• Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture
• Extensive experience, minimum 10 years’ experience within a design consultancy on data centre/mission critical projects
• MS Office and MS Project experience
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Incorporated status in chosen discipline preferred and ongoing pursuit of Chartered status
• Able to establish rapport and good working relationships within the project team and Clients
• leadership
• stakeholder management
• communication
• data centre design
• mission-critical MEP
• power and cooling systems

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