Design Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Royal HaskoningDHV Full time

The global digital revolution is bringing prosperity to more and more countries and regions, benefiting millions of people. Data Centres make this 21st century transformation possible and reliable systems and continuity are crucial. From the pioneering stage, we have been involved in the emergence and development of Data Centres and other important facilities. Our aim is to ensure that customer investments in Data Centres, anywhere in the world, deliver a reliable and profitable result.

Our Mission Critical Facilities (MCF) Data Centre team is well established and partners with some of the largest and leading Data Centre providers and users across the globe, ranging from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the UK. We have offices and teams in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and South Africa.

Data Centres is a strategic market for Royal HaskoningDHV. We are ranked in the Top 5 leading Design and Engineering firms in the industry and we aim to grow and establish data centres as one of our leading market sectors in future. We are expanding our business to help support this growth and have many exciting opportunities for experienced and motivated professionals to join us in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, or South Africa.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
As Design Manager you must prove yourself to some of the most demanding customers in the world and work pro-actively with our colleagues across the globe. Beyond the standard features of a building, our Mission Critical Facility (Data Centre) projects require specific and advanced knowledge and skills. What our clients have in common, is the need for a proactive Design Manager.

You will assume overall responsibility for the management and execution of MCF/data centre projects within the Industry, Energy and Asset Management Advisory Group.

You will be tasked with managing designs and delivering high quality results within multidisciplinary project teams consisting of data centre system consultants, architects, and engineers. The responsibilities will include working closely with clients and other key stakeholders to deliver optimal results and implement our vision to be the "World's leading Data Centre Consultant".

You will be responsible for managing and leading multidisciplinary design assignments covering specialised data centre disciplines including, but not limited to, cooling, security and safety systems, low voltage systems and UPS. The position will be responsible for managing the following deliverables of various disciplines:

- Develop together with Project Manager comprehensive scope-of-work, design budget and contract document
- Deliverables list for each related discipline
- Developing and following design delivery schedule
- Manage distribution and production of project workload within team
- Lead specialist engineers / designers etc. from a technical perspective
- Deliver project documents, specifications, and designs, ensuring the quality and flow of information for the client and their agents
- Coordinate all design matters relating to a project, helping to ensure that the multi-disciplinary team design is coordinated, constructable and cost-effective
- Lead project/design meetings (incl. external) and provide continual input to optimize design and minimize futile work
- Act as the key customer liaison and represent RHDHV in discussions with the Client regarding technical matters
- Design change management
- Collaborate with client and the team to meet the expectations of the customer or client
- Challenge design solutions
- Creating innovative ideas and designs and putting them into a context that the rest of the team and the client/customer can understand
- Take responsibility for the technical delivery of the project
- Provide input into the development of technical and commercial proposals.
- Manage Client relationships and grow the data centre portfolio with new and diverse clients
- Seek to integrate other leading services into the offering for data centres, for instance, energy transition
- Provide guidance to the bid manager in the preparation of tenders/proposals

The multidisciplinary project teams you will join work on projects both at home and abroad. In addition to participating in projects, you naturally also contribute to the optimization of our internal business processes and to safeguarding and sharing knowledge within your field. In this way, we continue to develop ourselves continuously

**Qualifications,Skills and Experience**:
You are an entrepreneurial, result oriented, proactive individual with a positive flexible and problem-solving attitude. Besides that, you have:

- Relevant BSc/BEng degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Mechatronics Engineering
- Master’s degree advantageous
- Professional registration with ECSA is advantageous
- Data Centre Tier Designer Accreditation is advantageous
- Professional Project Manager (PMP) advantageous
- Minimum 5 years’ relevant post graduate experience within

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