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About the Role
The Design Manager leads design management and technical assurance for Zerra hyperscale data centre projects in Japan, ensuring consultant designs meet desired outcomes and comply with Zerra standards. This role involves auditing deliverables, chairing knowledge-share sessions, and acting as a Subject Matter Expert for design escalations. The Design Manager provides leadership to the DE&C organization in Japan, engages with external consultants on best practices, and ensures designs adhere to Japanese codes and standards, including seismic, typhoon, flood, and grid-interconnection considerations.
Responsibilities
- Design management with the technical ability to conceptualize and drive design to the desired outcome.
- Review and QA/QC all design project deliverables in Japan to ensure compliance with defined baseline and Zerra DC design standards.
- Audit designs to identify inconsistencies, discrepancies, and missing information, and track close-out of all observations.
- Serve as Subject Matter Expert in Design Reviews and respond to design escalations from Japan project teams.
- Chair regularly scheduled Japan Design Team knowledge-share meetings, technical discussions, and Design Engineering Guideline (DEG) revisions.
- Attend all Japan Gating Presentation calls.
- Provide leadership and guidance to the Design, Engineering & Construction (DE&C) organization in Japan.
- Participate in the selection and annual business-performance review of Consultants operating in Japan.
- Enforce the use of Zerra DC standards and templates for all design-related documentation, adapted to Japanese codes and standards.
- Actively engage with external Consultants to monitor and implement best-in-class processes to improve design management and delivery across CSA and MEPH disciplines.
- Identify quality and latent-defect issues and manage design development for suitable resolution, with attention to seismic design, typhoon loading, flood and liquefaction risk, and grid-interconnection conditions specific to Japan.
Requirements
- 10+ years of design or design-management experience, with meaningful exposure to data centre, mission-critical or large-scale industrial projects in Japan.
- Working knowledge of Japanese codes and standards, including Building Standards Act, relevant JIS and JEC/JEM standards, Fire Service Act, METI Electricity Business Act and OCCTO/TSO grid-interconnection requirements, and prefectural/municipal planning and environmental assessment processes.
- Adept at problem solving, breaking problems into smaller components, understanding underlying issues, and simplifying complex matters.
- Understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
- Adapts to change, is open to new ideas, and takes on new responsibilities in a high-pressure environment.
- Strong commercial awareness, understanding Japanese construction-market dynamics, the general contractor and sub-contractor landscape, vendor ecosystem, and typical cost drivers.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable presenting to senior leadership, investors, and statutory authorities.
- Business-level Japanese (spoken and written) is strongly preferred.
- Working English is required.
- Willingness to travel domestically across project sites in Japan.
Skills
- Design management
- Technical assurance
- Design auditing
- Subject Matter Expertise
- Leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Problem solving
- Adaptability
- Commercial awareness
- Communication
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in CSA or MEPH engineering disciplines, or equivalent experience.
- Mechanical engineering background preferred.
- Japanese Professional Engineer (Gijutsushi), First-Class Registered Architect (一級建築士) or First-Class Electrical Chief Engineer (第一種電気主任技術者), or equivalent international chartered status, preferred.
About the Company
- Zerra develops and operates hyperscale data centre campuses across Australia, Japan and India, delivering capacity at scale into markets driven by the growth of cloud and AI.
- Our flexible campus developments support hyperscale and neocloud organisations, enabling some of the world’s fastest-scaling technology businesses to grow with certainty and ambition.
- At Zerra, we empower exceptional people to challenge convention, drive innovation and make a real impact in digital infrastructure.
- Our culture fuses entrepreneurial agility with global expertise, enabling our teams to deliver results that matter.
- Zerra is part of AGP, an independently owned investor and asset manager that develops and operates real assets across the energy, digital and real estate sectors.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe that diverse perspectives, inclusive leadership and equitable opportunities are essential to building stronger teams and better outcomes.
- We are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels respected, supported and empowered to thrive.