Project Coordinator - Data Centers
- Arcadis
- Lisbon
- €35,000 – €45,000
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
The Project Coordinator – Data Centers (f/m/d) reports to the Head of Project Management – Iberia and supports the operational management of core projects or programs to deliver defined objectives. The role is responsible for ensuring assigned scope is delivered in line with budget, planning, compliance, and regulatory requirements. This position requires strong technical knowledge combined with broad business experience to support effective project delivery and coordination.
Role accountabilities:
- Manage the agreed project scope, team workload, and contractor activities to ensure efficient delivery against the program.
- Plan, monitor, and control budgets, schedules, and resources using established financial and project management systems.
- Deliver small to medium-sized data center projects or programm on time, within budget, and to the required scope.
- Identify, manage, and escalate project risks and issues to senior management to minimize impact on delivery.
- Ensure compliance with internal procedures, external regulations, and required project standards.
- Support and guide colleagues on expected behaviors and compliance processes to maintain effective and consistent project delivery.
- Analyze project data, trends, and performance information to provide recommendations that support informed decision-making.
- Review project processes, policies, and systems against industry best practice and recommend improvements to senior management.
- Collaborate proactively across teams, clients, and stakeholders to maintain alignment on project progress, expectations, and delivery needs.
- Set the implementation focus and delivery plan for data center projects, including performance management of project teams and appropriate control mechanisms.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Architecture, Civil or Industrial Engineer or similar
- Relevant professional qualification or chartered status
- Professional level of English
- Fluency in another language like French, Italian, German or Dutch will be a plus
- Travel availability
- Strong coordination, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Proactive risk and issue management
- Timely delivery, consistency, and quality of deliverable to team and client expectations, in compliance with our business quality systems.
- Engagement with and adoption of the Arcadis Way and Arcadis core values.
Skills and attributes for success:
- Technical rigor and attention to detail;
- Strong problem-solving skills;
- Critical sense;
- Efficient, innovative and team-oriented work environment;
- A strong work ethic;
- Professional responsibility, confidentiality and integrity;
- Dedicated, innovative, resourceful and able to work under pressure;
- Team player and critical thinking;
- Forward thinker and self-starter;
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.
Skills
- Project Management
- Budget Management
- Scheduling
- Risk Management
- data center operations
- Stakeholder Management
- Compliance









