Project Director (Hyperscale Data Centers)

Job title: Project Director (Hyperscale Data Centers)

About the Role The Project Director will lead the execution of Nscale’s hyperscale data centre construction projects. This senior, hands-on leadership role acts as the delivery lead on individual schemes, ensuring outcomes align with scope, objectives, governance, and technical expectations. Based in Europe with responsibilities across multiple jurisdictions, you will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to drive delivery certainty and protect Nscale’s AI infrastructure investments.

What You'll Do

• Provide leadership and oversight across the delivery of large-scale data centre projects, through to completion and operations handover.
• Shape and manage delivery strategies that align programme outcomes with commercial, technical, and operational objectives.
• Act as Nscale’s delivery representative, coordinating internal functions and external partners across multiple jurisdictions.
• Maintain oversight of cost, schedule, risk, and performance, supporting informed decision-making and effective governance.
• Support key commercial, procurement, and contracting activities to enable successful project outcomes.
• Ensure projects are delivered in line with Nscale’s standards, regulatory requirements, and wider sustainability and ESG commitments.
• Build strong relationships across the supply chain, stakeholders, and relevant authorities to support effective and timely delivery.
• Contribute to continuous improvement across delivery models, processes, and ways of working as Nscale scales across Europe.

What We're Looking For

• 12+ years’ experience delivering major construction projects, ideally within hyperscale data centres, mission-critical facilities, or large-scale infrastructure sectors.
• Degree-qualified in a related discipline.
• Proven track record delivering design-and-build or EPC projects from concept through commissioning.
• Deep understanding of multidisciplinary design coordination, construction, MEP systems, and data centre construction requirements.
• Strong grasp of cost control, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder governance.
• Excellent communicator and negotiator, capable of influencing at senior levels and driving performance across large, complex delivery teams.
• Highly organised, decisive, and outcome-focused, with a balance of strategic insight and operational acumen.
• Fluent in English; Norwegian advantageous.