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About the Role
The Design Manager is responsible for project set-up, delivery control, and technical coordination of consultant teams, ensuring the implementation of company design guidelines and standardized design across data centre projects. The role requires a technical background in CSA and/or MEPH, overseeing complex design deliverables to ensure technical excellence, budget, and safety.
Responsibilities
- Lead project set-up and end-to-end design delivery for data centre projects, ensuring alignment with programme, budget and technical requirements
- Coordinate and manage multi-disciplinary consultant teams across CSA and/or MEPH scopes
- Implement and govern the company’s Design Engineering Guidelines (DEG’s) and standardised design solutions
- Own design governance through the DLR Gating Process, including preparation of the Project Information Document (PID) and chairing G0/G1 calls aligned with RIBA delivery stages
- Control and report on project cost and schedule, working closely with Delivery teams on budgets, forecasts and milestone planning
- Oversee change control activities including budget reviews, contracts, change orders and invoice approvals
- Provide technical leadership throughout delivery, resolving escalated RFIs and managing technical submittments to timely close-out
- Co-manage commissioning activities and Integrated Systems Testing (IST) to support safe and successful project handover
- Produce and contribute to monthly project reporting, pipeline metrics and insurance reporting in line with corporate requirements
- Champion buildability, safety and quality by design across all phases of the project lifecycle
- Lead and participate in cross-functional design reviews, promoting innovation, DfMA strategies and best-in-class technical solutions
- Support the evolution of regional and global design standards by feeding in lessons learned and market insights
- Drive adoption of modern design systems and tools (e.g. BIM/Revit) and ensure standard designs are agreed at key milestones
- Collaborate closely with Portfolio, Pre-Construction, Construction, Operations, Solutions and Sales teams to resolve design challenges and deliver project goals
Requirements
- Strong mission critical building delivery experience ideally in a multi-disciplinary design environment
- Data centre design experience is preferred or experience of highly serviced building designs within the mission critical sector
- Familiarity of gating processes/change control within an Owner Operator Development organisation is preferred
- Familiarity of multi-disciplinary subject matters within the Group to cover the key technical areas relevant to the data centre industry inclusive of all CSA and MEPH disciplines
- Ability to clearly explain and communicate complex technical issues, confidently defending design decisions with senior internal and external stakeholders
- Able to work proactively and collaboratively with project teams, contractors and other specialists in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Ability to navigate competing project pressures, assessing solution options against cost, risk, schedule and quality impacts
- Organised and pragmatic in developing and appraising technical solutions, operating effectively within a process-orientated framework and fast-paced environment
Skills
- CSA
- MEPH
- BIM/Revit
- DfMA
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in one of the CS/MEPH engineering disciplines or Architecture - equivalent experience in a related engineering, architecture or other discipline field will be considered
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Excellent benefits
- Environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions
- Plenty of development opportunities
About the Company
- Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions.
- PlatformDIGITAL, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges.
- Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.
Equal Opportunity
- Safely Powering Progress
- Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.