Site Manager Data Center Center of Excellence

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The Service Site Manager leads and coordinates all on-site activities for medium to large projects to ensure safe, high-quality, and cost-effective execution throughout start-up, construction/erection, commissioning, and maintenance phases. This role serves as the on-site Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the customer, ensuring compliance with contract requirements, schedule commitments, ABB standards, and safety expectations.

Working within the Data Center Center of Excellence (CoE), you will plan, schedule, and oversee service resources; support continuous improvement; and help customers optimize their operations. The role requires extensive travel throughout the EMEA region to support data center installation and commissioning activities.

The Data Center CoE is a specialized team within Electrification Service Ireland, dedicated to driving best practices, innovation, and strategic support for data center customers.

Our Team Dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

We want you to bring your full self to work-your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You'll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

In this role, you'll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact.

Customer Focus

• Ensure strong customer orientation, responsiveness, and care across all assigned activities.

• Strengthen customer relationships by delivering outstanding service throughout project operations.

• Drive continuous improvement in customer satisfaction.

• Identify operational improvement opportunities and customer pain points while on-site.

• Communicate identified opportunities to account teams following established processes.

Site Leadership

• Represent ABB on-site in a professional and consistent manner, acting as the link between the customer and internal teams.

• Lead site operations and establish the approach for project execution.

• Oversee site planning, mobilization, monitoring, and control of internal teams, suppliers, and subcontractors to achieve project goals.

Site Coordination & Monitoring

• Coordinate the full spectrum of on-site activities from site handover to project completion.

• Ensure execution of start-up, construction, erection, testing, and commissioning activities in line with contract requirements, quality standards, timelines, and safety policies.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field.

• Minimum 10 years' experience in data center installation, start-up, or operations, including management responsibility.

• Strong background in electrical infrastructure installation and commissioning.

• Project and operations leadership (project, portfolio, and operations management).

• Quality and risk governance.

• Customer-focused mindset and excellent time-management capabilities.

• Strong communication and problem-solving abilities.

• Proficiency with data center management tools and software.

• Solid understanding of medium- and low-voltage electrical switchgear.

ABB offers a full range of benefits to help you thrive at work and beyond.

• Competitive salary

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Competitive contributory pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)

• Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Generous employee referral scheme

• Company car or cash for car allowance

• Office based/Site based/ Field based/ Working from home / Hybrid/ Flexible working

• Private medical cover OR

• Private medical cover for yourself and partner / family

• Generous bonus scheme

For the 5th consecutive year ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation's dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.

Electrification provides leading electrical distribution and management technologies, solutions and services to electrify the world in a safe, smart and sustainable way. The portfolio includes medium- and low-voltage electrical components, switchgear, digital devices, enclosures, and circuit breakers, among
others. With our products, solutions and services, we collaborate with customers to improve power delivery and security, enhance energy management, efficiency and operational reliability, as we seek to achieve a low carbon society. go.abb/electrification

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