Customer Design Manager

SUMMARY

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

·      The Customer Design Manager is 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.

·      As such, the Customer Design Manager holds consultant and professional team accountable for meeting the project design intent and deliverables.

·      They will 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.

·      He/She will partner with suppliers and designers to drive improvement initiatives in safety, efficiency and sustainability.

·      This role will involve 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

·      Working Proficiency in English and Mandarin

·      Flexibility to be relocated and travel on business needs

Interested candidates may send their CV to MAC (Reg No. R1221300) at [email protected] quoting the job title in the Subject line. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.