Design Manager – Data Centre
Role Overview
The Design Manager leads multidisciplinary design teams in Property and Buildings, focused on the data centre sector.
The role manages integrated design across architecture, building engineering, specialist disciplines, infrastructure, utilities, and master planning to meet client, regulatory, and project requirements.
The design team is managed through all delivery phases, with attention to safety, efficiency, quality, client requirements, and business objectives.
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Role overview
The Design Manager leads multidisciplinary design teams in Property and Buildings, focused on the data centre sector.
The role manages integrated design across architecture, building engineering, specialist disciplines, infrastructure, utilities, and master planning to meet client, regulatory, and project requirements.
The design team is managed through all delivery phases, with attention to safety, efficiency, quality, client requirements, and business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead data centre design from concept and feasibility through detailed design, tendering, and construction coordination.
- Coordinate architecture, structural, MEP, ICT, life safety, infrastructure, utilities, and specialist disciplines for cohesive delivery.
- Support client communications and management of expectations, scope, schedule, and budget with the project manager.
- Champion design quality, innovation, digital standards, and sustainability; promote BIM, Revit, and digital twins.
- Manage risks, design changes, approvals, documentation, progress, and performance against agreed deliverables.
- Contribute to proposals, presentations, and client engagement; mentor junior team members.
- Coordinate subconsultants, subject matter experts, stakeholders, authorities, contractors, and consultants.
- Support design assurance, technical governance, permits, stakeholder agreements, and review deliverables for quality and project compliance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- At least 5 years of project or design management experience within a design practice.
- Strong track record managing complex, multidisciplinary data centre projects through all design stages.
- Strong client-facing experience, preferably in consultancy, engineering, or project delivery.
- Understanding of multidisciplinary coordination, project delivery methodologies, and regional authority standards.
- Proficiency in BIM and digital design tools such as Revit and Navisworks.
- Stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills.
- Experience with a data centre-focused multinational design or engineering consultancy is highly desirable.
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