Data Centre Engineering Design Manager - PARIS Based

Verne; Paris; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Verne in Paris is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the design and engineering of multiple data centre projects across France. You will implement Verne's Design & Engineering standards, manage deliverables against aggressive timelines, always within budget and on time.

As a senior member reporting to the Head of Design & Product Development, you will coordinate with architects, engineers and suppliers to ensure successful handover and uptime for operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or physical sciences.
• Fluent French.
• 5+ years hands-on design experience (engineering calculations, specs, drawing sets).
• 3+ years in a project delivery capacity (managing a schedule of technically complex deliverables).
• Excellence in bringing a team together to deliver.
• Degree-level subject matter expertise in at least one Data Centre technical discipline (e.g. electrical distribution, cooling, controls).
• Comfort directing multiple technical disciplines and managing budget with cost-effectiveness.

Responsabilités

• Lead the design and engineering of multiple concurrent data centre projects across France.
• Implement Verne Design & Engineering standards and ensure on-time, within-budget delivery.
• Direct and oversee consultants, engineers and supplier teams; review deliverables for adherence to standards.
• Contribute lessons learned to Verne design & engineering program improvements.
• Host page-turn meetings; ensure progress aligns with overarching requirements.
• Handover: verify as-builts and documentation for reliable operations.

Connaissances

Fluent French

Budget management

Team leadership

Delivery excellence

Hands-on design

Project delivery

Formation

Bachelors in Engineering or physical sciences

Description du poste

Engineering Manager

As the Engineering Manager, you will lead the design and engineering of multiple concurrent data centre projects across France.

You’ll implement Verne’s Design & Engineering standards, manage challenging deliverables against aggressive project expectations, always within budget and on time.

You will be a senior member of the Verne Engineering team, reporting to the Head of Design & Product Development.

What you’ll do

• Make the engineering decisions that enable our customers to succeed.
• Apply the Project Engineering Strategy at all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Strategic Brief: Manage test-fit exercises, applying the Verne reference design and any site specific constraints to maximise yield. Technical contributions to permitting matrices, path to power, connectivity and other key technical deliverables.
• Permitting Design: Responsible technical land due diligence and permit design deliverables set and driving the team toward a fully compliant design.
• Procurement Design: Incorporating market and buildability constraints with an emphasis on value engineering and predictable delivery.
• Manufacturing & Construction: Inspection of installations against the Plan of Record in partnership with the development team, acting as technical point of contact. Technical approver of variations.
• Commissioning: Review that scripts adequately describe commissioning activities which demonstrate system design objectives. Witness commissioning.
• Handover: Verify as-builts and all technical documentation adequately describes the facility in a manner that Operations can guarantee uptime.

How You’ll Do It

• Direct and oversee Professional Consultants (Architects, Engineers), Equipment Supplier technical teams and specialist contractor technical teams.
• Work in partnership with Project Engineering lead to address project specific requirements.
• Appoint specialist consultants or suppliers as necessary to achieve specified deliverables.
• Review consultant and supplier technical deliverables for adherence to Verne design & engineering standards.
• Contribute lessons learned and key breakthroughs to Verne design & engineering program continuous improvement.
• Host page turn meetings, review all technical deliverables by the Client Team.
• Develop and maintain vendor relationships (Suppliers, Consultants, Engineers, Architects) to maintain cost-effective services for Verne projects.
• Approve consultant invoices.
• Ensure project engineering reports and progress aligns with Verne Engineering overarching requirements.
• Present the design, design deviations, value engineering report and quality assurance report at the conclusion of each stage gate.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelors in Engineering or a physical sciences
• Fluent French
• 5+ years experience in a hands‑on design role (e.g. performing calculations, authoring specifications and drawing sets as a consultant, or as an in‑house engineer for a design build contractor)
• 3+ years in a project delivery capacity (e.g. accountable for managing a schedule of deliverables for technically complex projects)
• Excellence in bringing a team together to deliver
• Degree‑level subject matter expertise in at least one Data Centre related technical discipline (e.g. electrical distribution, critical cooling, mission critical controls)
• Comfort and familiarity with directing all other technical disciplines and holding individual engineers to account, including general building services engineering.
• Comfort in managing a budget, financial acumen to liaise with finance and to drive cost effectiveness from our professional services supply chain.