Head: Engineering

6 hours ago

South Africa Liquid Tech (Pty) Ltd. Full time R1 200 000 - R2 400 000 per year

Head: Engineering is part of the Development Team in charge of the delivery of new build, expansion, and major upgrade of Data Centres across the continent for Africa Data Centres, predominantly in South Africa. Responsible for all engineering decisions, project design deliverables and acceptance of all major mechanical and electrical deployments completed for Africa Data Centres.

Head: Engineering is responsible to update and improve Design and Group Standards based on lessons learnt on previous projects and in order to comply to latest customer requirements and industry trends.

Accountable for design, compliance to local regulation and Group standards for all infrastructure serving the Data Centres. Manage all technical design phases for each project from inception to hand-over to Operations team. This includes oversight of professional engineering consultants and technical sign-off & acceptance of their deliverables.

Responsible for technical sign-off during all significant design, construction and commissioning activities for data centre infrastructure for hand-over to the operations team.

Responsible for providing technical support to the Senior Project Manager, in house Sales teams and Operations teams as required.

Key Performance Area

Data Centre Design Management

  • Accountable for data centre electrical and mechanical design

  • Responsible for professional team technical supervision and oversight of professional services teams (consulting engineers / architects) for all data centre development projects

Team work and coordination

  • Accountable for continuous technical support for the project delivery and construction teams

  • Ensure that Operations team have approved design during all the development phases

Group Standards

  • Responsible for the development of a robust and accountable design process

  • Development of standardised data centre environmental requirements and ongoing energy efficiency (PUE) targets

Financial Management

  • Oversight of capital budgets for data centre infrastructure projects

  • Responsible for achieving a reduction in CAPEX and for generating OPEX savings with best practice international design principals

People Management / Communication

  • Oversight of professional services teams (consulting engineers, architects, commissioning agents) and their deliverables

  • Responsible for Line Management functions for all Development Engineers

Formal Qualifications Required

  • MSc in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
  • Certified Data Centre Professional
  • UTI Tier Designer

Job Related Experience Required

  • Minimum 5 years experience in Critical facility design & delivery
  • Minimum 5 years experience with M&E project design & delivery
  • Minimum 5 years significant Critical Facility commissioning and acceptance experience
  • Minimum 5 years experience in leading or managing highly technical teams
  • Minimum 5 years experience in Data centre Design and Build

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