Senior Design Manager (Data Centres)

RED are an expanding international M&E consultancy, with a proven track record in low energy design, focused on providing excellent design solutions to clients. Through our market leading technical expertise, we enable the world’s digital infrastructure and develop the built environment whilst also helping clients realise ambitious plans for zero carbon-built environments. We cover the entire life cycle of any building project, with our broad capability offering saving our clients time, money, and effort. Our approach is centred around listening to our clients and interacting energetically with our fellow project stakeholders. We add value with our people, client service ethos, global delivery strategy, technical ability, and attitude.

We now seek a Senior Design Manager to be based out of our London office, to provide project support from inception through completion, including pre and post contract. The successful candidate will expertly manage relationships between the design team and Subject Matter Expert (SME), while maintaining our excellent relationship with the client. The successful candidate will also ensure efficient use of resources throughout and act with integrity and high professional standards.

Role Responsibilities

• Review status advised by project personnel and external parties and modifies schedules or plans as required. Prepares project reports for Management, Client or others.
• Day to day management of project progress and direct liaison with project support teams.
• Ensures risk and performance monitoring analysis takes place through effective systems of internal control and delegation.
• Capture a project brief and distil into design toll gates for delivery (typically masterplan, 50% 80% and 100% design).
• Manage project requirements to present progress and manage the acquisition of design information whilst managing multiple workstreams concurrently and manage virtual design teams working across multiple time zones.
• Coordinate teams to deliver coherent and well-rehearsed face to face page turn presentations.
• Collaborate with and coach the design team through the design stage on the basis that the design team are the experts and put forward recommended solutions that localise the clients design principles to the subject sites.
• Drive the team, to support and resolve difficult issues as they arise in a fair and reasonable manner and identify and address performance issues before the client raises them.
• Quickly understand clients process and develop supporting tools.
• Work autonomously, as part of a wider team and leading a team and actively participate in new growth initiatives internal and external and to contribute to the development of internal systems and procedures.
• Proven experience intaking a project requirement, typically for a new hyperscale availability zone comprising of one to three sites from the real estate due diligence phase to 100% design phase in circa a 20-25 week timescale period desirable.
• Experience in project management and MEP engineering track record with some experience of data centres or other heavily engineered buildings e.g. pharma, process, hospital.
• Knowledge of UTI and Sub UTI T3 principles e.g. distributed redundancy.
• An in-depth technical expertise in industrial architecture, structures, civils, acoustics, environmental.

Role Requirements

• 5+ Years’ experience at Senior Engineer level or Design Management level, BEng in appropriate engineering discipline desirable, MCIBSE/MIEE/IMechE Professional Membership desirable, Chartered Engineer status desirable.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the design process and possess an adaptable, proactive approach to engineering tasks.
• Peripheral experience in architecture, structures, civils, security and permitting.
• Sound understanding of template design with localisation requirements & working application of key Health and Safety issues and legislation.
• Ability to forge strong client and supplier relationships and ability to keep clear and accurate records and reports.
• Ability to contribute to the growth of the business via business development.
• Ability to step outside A/E consultancy delivery norms and embrace an intensively collaborative design environment working for and reporting daily to an expert client.
• Ability to proactively step outside the role of conventional design regiment and stages and to understand fast track design driven by the hyperscale client model.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (word/excel outlook/PowerPoint) and proficient in the use of Microsoft Project.
• Ability to use IT based calculation and spreadsheet software.
• Flexible and willing to travel regularly to service international projects and customers.
• Commercial and financial awareness and management of projects and fees.
• Ability to work autonomously, as part of a wider team, and leading/ mentor a team, and able to chair & facilitate meetings at all levels.
• Understand and maintain the long terms goals of the business and understand the company QA process, maintain and contribute to the same.
• Maintain an appropriate knowledge of industry initiatives and play an active role in external promotion of the business as required.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and oral.

This role will ideally suit those with the right to live & work in the UK without restrictions, as we are unable to offer sponsorship at the present time.