Design Manager, Customer Solutions - Data Centre

About the role

A fast-growing data centre developer with an active pipeline across Southeast Asia is hiring a Design Manager (Customer Solutions) based in Singapore. This is a customer-facing design leadership role within the Design Delivery function, reporting to the VP of Design Delivery. You will manage a consortium of consultants and professional teams across concurrent greenfield and fit-out data centre projects, owning design quality, compliance and delivery from brief through to customer handover.

Key responsibilities

• Manage multidisciplinary consultant teams across concurrent data centre projects, covering town planning, architecture, civil and structural, MEP, environmental, LEED and geotechnical disciplines.
• Develop design briefs and key metrics to ensure consistency in design quality and requirements across projects.
• Act as the primary interface with hyperscale customers on design variations, RFP responses, technical compliance and SLA deviations.
• Drive design standardisation and advance design decision-making to improve speed to market.
• Travel to project sites to check that construction methodology, site coordination and equipment performance meet design criteria, concurrent maintainability and reliability standards.
• Initiate design improvements from lessons learnt and work with suppliers and designers on safety, efficiency and sustainability initiatives.

Required profile

• 10+ years in design consultancy, with at least 5 years at principal engineer level.
• Professional Engineer or Registered Architect with practising certification preferred.
• Hyperscale data centre experience preferred.
• Experience across Design Bid Build, Design & Build and other delivery methodologies.
• Bilingual in English and Mandarin.
• Open to regional travel based on project requirements.

The vacancy is advertised by Space Executive, an executive search firm with offices in Singapore and London, which recruits senior management and executive-level personnel. Candidates can apply directly through LinkedIn.