Design Manager – Data Centre

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data centre design from concept and feasibility through detailed design, tendering, and construction coordination.
• Coordinate architecture, structural, MEP, ICT, life safety, infrastructure, and utility disciplines.
• Support client communication and management of expectations, scope, schedule, and budget with the project manager.
• Champion design excellence, innovation, quality, digital, and sustainability standards.
• Promote BIM, Revit, digital twins, and other design technologies to improve coordination and performance.
• Manage risks, changes, approvals, documentation, project progress, and performance against deliverables.
• Contribute to proposals, presentations, client engagement, and future business opportunities.
• Mentor junior team members and coordinate subconsultants, experts, stakeholders, authorities, contractors, and consultants.
• Support design assurance, technical governance, permits, approvals, and stakeholder agreements; review deliverables for quality and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Project Management, or a related discipline; Engineering is repeated in the source list.
• At least 5 years of project or design management experience within a design practice.
• Strong 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 methods, and regional authority standards.
• Proficiency in BIM and digital design tools such as Revit and Navisworks.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills.
• Experience with a data-centre-focused multinational design or engineering consultancy is highly desirable.

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