We are looking for a Customer Design Manager who will be responsible in managing the Data Centre Design to meet reliability and availability requirements, efficiency and sustainability benchmarks (PUE & WUE), international best practices, regulatory requirements, safety in design, cost target and speed to market.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Accountable for completing multiple projects in parallel (both greenfield and fit out), within budget and program.
- The project will span across regional metros. This role must develop design brief & key metrics to ensure consistency in design quality and requirements.
- Hold consultant and professional team accountable for meeting the project design intent and deliverables.
- Manage a consortium of consultants and professional team which includes but not limited to town planner, architect, civil & structural engineer, mechanical and electrical engineer, environmental consultant, LEED consultant, and geotechnical engineer.
- Partner with suppliers and designers to drive improvement initiatives in safety, efficiency and sustainability.
- Traveling to sites to ensure the method of construction, site coordination and equipment performance meets design criteria, concurrent maintainability and reliability standards.
KEY DELIVERABLES
- Accountable for meeting design compliance and achieving timely handover to customers
- Design standardization
- Managing customer design variation
- Advance design decision-making
- Secure customer design buy-in
- Stay relevant to customer’s latest technical direction
- Support customer’s technical RFP
- Qualify technical compliance and deviation with customer (Service Level Agreement, Compliance Deviation and Exception etc.,)
- Initiator of design improvement from lesson learnt
- Oversee consistency in project design delivery and construction quality
- Provide innovative proposals to improve speed to market in design delivery
REQUIREMENTS
- Proven design experience across regional metros
- Professional Engineer/Registered Architect with practicing certifications preferred
- 10+ years of experience in design consultancy with at least 5 years in principal engineer position
- Excellent interpersonal skills, communication, leadership & influencing skills
- Experience in Design Bid Build, Design & Build and other design delivery methodology
- Experience in hyperscale Data Center is preferred
- Flexibility to be relocated and travel on business needs
Clarice Lim (R1656152) | Anchor Search Group Pte Ltd (17C8528)
Work Location: In person