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Senior Project Manager - Program Excellence

AirTrunk

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Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?

AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.

Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…

Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.

A Snapshot

As the Senior Manager, Development Program Excellence – Japan, reporting to the Development Director based in Tokyo, you will establish and continuously improve AirTrunk Japan's integrated development programme, planning standards and delivery methodology across the entire project portfolio. You will lead the Scheduling and Program Management function, driving schedule certainty, programme optimisation and continuous improvement from site acquisition through operational handover. You will define how AirTrunk plans, governs and continuously improves the delivery of hyperscale data centres in Japan.

Your Day to Day

Establish programme governance frameworks, planning and schedule quality requirements.

Develop programme

  • KPIs, portfolio metrics and executive reporting standards.
  • Lead programme governance meetings and executive programme reviews.
  • Develop programme management policies,
  • procedures and templates.

Baseline Programme Development

  • Develop,
  • maintain integrated baseline development programme from site acquisition through operational handover.
  • Develop programme templates for multiple delivery strategies and project conditions.
  • Develop baseline programmes for Behind the Meter (BTM) on-site power generation facilities.
  • Develop programme models supporting modular, off-site manufactured and containerised delivery.
  • Develop planning assumptions for AI-ready and liquid-cooled hyperscale data centres
  • Capture lessons learned and continuously improve baseline schedules.

Programme Optimisation

  • Identify opportunities to shorten project duration while maintaining safety and quality.
  • Recommend alternative sequencing,
  • procurement and construction strategies.
  • Quantify programme

Responsibilities

  • Development Program Governance
  • Lead the Development Program Excellence function for Japan and manage the Scheduling / Program Management team.
  • standards
  • and continuously improve
  • AirTrunk's

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years' experie

benefits

from modularisation, prefabrication, factory acceptance

testing

and industrialised construction.

Evaluate impacts of procurement strategies on overall programme

Drive continuous programme optimisation initiatives across the portfolio.

Contractor Programme Review

  • Present AirTrunk baseline programmes during procurement and pre-construction.
  • Review contractor programmes and perform detailed gap analyses.
  • Challenge contractor assumptions and negotiate programme improvements.
  • Review programmes for modular construction,
  • containerised solutions and BTM infrastructure.
  • Assess factory production schedules,
  • logistics plans and installation sequences.

Schedule Risk Management

  • Perform Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis.
  • Perform schedule risk analysis and develop mitigation strategies.

Develop and monitor recovery programmes

Identify early warning indicators and support project recovery planning.

Portfolio Planning

  • Maintain portfolio-wide programme visibility.
  • Identify portfolio-level resource constraints, interface risks and milestone conflicts.
  • Support executive decision-making through portfolio analysis and forecasting.

Digital Programme Management

  • Lead digital programme management initiatives.
  • Promote 4D scheduling, Digital Twin integration and AI-assisted programme optimisation
  • Develop dashboards and automate programme reporting.
  • Lessons Learned & Best Practice
  • Maintain Japan

Programme

  • Best Practice Library.
  • Benchmark programme performance across projects.
  • Work with the Construction Innovation team to embed methodology improvements into baseline schedules.
  • Share Japan programme innovations across the APAC portfolio.
  • Stakeholder & Executive Support
  • Partner with Design, Procurement, Commercial, Construction, Customer

Success

  • and Operations.
  • Prepare executive dashboards,
  • programme reports,
  • and investment papers.
  • Present programme recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Travel domestically and internationally as