Senior Design Manager - Mechanical

Overview

The Senior Design Manager (Mechanical) is a pivotal subject matter expert (SME) role leading the mechanical discipline within the wider QTS European Development Group. This role will manage pre-construction and construction activities for select campus and development projects. Throughout the pre-construction and construction phases, this role will engage daily with internal design managers, external consultants, contractors, commissioning agents, vendors, and DataCenter Operations. The position will also act as a liaison for consultancies outside of design to include, but not be limited to: Project Managers; Cost & Schedule Consultants; Local Authority Officers; and Hyperscale Customers where required.

Responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

• Manage subordinate Design Managers as well as key projects on a campus(es) and maintain updated budgets, schedules, and status reports for each.
• Select and manage AE consultants within proposed and ongoing projects.
• Create and communicate design updates on development program & project status monthly, suitable for executive level reviews, presenting information to support efficient decision making.
• Work with QTS stakeholders, design and construction teams to create a master development design program for site(s), including a complete campus design solution.
• Manage design input into planning and permitting needs for each assigned campus/individual project(s).
• Implement and manage design input on multi-phased site development plans to achieve time, budget, and quality standards in a predictable fashion.
• Continuously update a campus master plan and assist with the update of QTS’s European Freedom and any other design standards.
• Write scopes of work for design, design support throughout construction and commissioning, and participate in procurement and project cost estimates.
• Review the Basis of Design (BoD) and subsequent RIBA stage project document issues to ensure design compliance with QTS’s European Freedom standards.
• Coordinate page-turn reviews with internal stakeholder comments and align Project Team input into the QTS design gating process.
• Work closely with the strategic procurement team on equipment procurement and delivery processes.
• Engage with Project Management and Quantity Surveyor teams to ensure visibility via the design change order process and assess potential impacts against the approved project budget (BTT).
• Review project technical submittals and ensure they are closed out by the Project Team, providing a point of contact for escalation and clarification.
• Establish project design schedules and manage design teams to ensure on-time completion.
• Review the production and content of design change order requests from both consultants and contractors.
• Collaborate with Sales/Solutions Engineers and Product teams to aid in custom deal solutioning for prospective clients within applicable schedule and budget constraints for any particular location.
• Establish and maintain relationships serving as liaison with key QTS stakeholders.
• Create & build relationships that enhance QTS’s ability to be a leader in creating the World’s ‘Most Valuable Data Center Real Estate’.
• Prioritize critical issues in high-volume communications, ensuring cost, risk, schedule, and quality pressures are addressed.
• Review all mechanical deliverables for technical content, quality and adherence to code/standardisation requirements.

• Conduct mechanical development reviews to ensure all projects adhere to QTS’s mechanical specification and standards.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering or equivalent professional experience.
• Either mechanical DC or highly serviced/critical engineering design experience.
• A minimum of 3 to 7 years’ experience in hyperscale sized mission-critical building facilities delivery, ideally in a multi-disciplinary design environment.
• Experience with Bluebeam, Revit, BIM 360, ACC, the Microsoft Office suite, and the ability to communicate program updates to an executive level.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master’s in Engineering, Management, or a related field is desirable but not essential.
• Professional registration as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer is preferred, albeit not essential.
• Broad understanding of adjacent disciplines – CSA, MEPH, ICT.
• Experience interfacing directly with Hyperscale customers.
• Prior experience working with local authorities or regulatory bodies.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Substantial mechanical design engineering technical expertise.
• Experience within a critical engineering design consultancy.
• High level of construction management experience.
• Ability to manage delivery of complex technical deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders.
• Familiar with full project life cycle from due diligence, planning, design, permitting, construction and commissioning to IST.
• Extensive design management experience and familiarity with multi-disciplinary subject matters relevant to the data center industry, including CSA, MEPH and ICT.
• Familiarity with gating processes/change control within an Owner Operator Development organization.
• Ability to travel within Europe and the US, up to 25% of the time.

Total Rewards

• 25 days annual leave and public holidays
• 32 paid volunteering hours per year
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Employer paid private medical and dental cover for employees and dependants
• Life assurance
• Illness financial protection including critical illness cover and income protection
• Employee referral bonus equivalent to exchange rates of $2,500 at time of award, subject to eligibility
• This role is bonus eligible

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by QTS in its sole discretion. We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us to request an accommodation on TalentAcquisition@QTSDataCenters.com