Data Centre Design Lead

Black & White Engineering; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Black & White Engineering in Edinburgh seeks an experienced Design Manager to lead the design process across multidisciplinary engineering projects. You will coordinate teams, manage design delivery, and drive governance and risk management to achieve project objectives.

You will work closely with clients and internal teams to maintain high standards, quality, and delivery performance while supporting continuous improvement within Design Management.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or Architecture or related technical discipline.
• Experience as Design Manager or similar project delivery role.
• Experience in multidisciplinary design teams on complex engineering projects.
• Strong governance, design coordination and delivery process understanding.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate multidisciplinary design teams and support delivery of engineering design projects.
• Manage design programmes, workflows and deliverables across projects.
• Lead collaboration between internal teams, external consultants and design partners.
• Drive design coordination and team alignment to ensure successful project delivery.
• Manage project risks, change control, quality, cost and programme performance.
• Support project reporting, commercial tracking and document management activities.
• Lead project meetings and ensure actions are communicated and managed effectively.
• Review design outputs for compliance with requirements and procedures.
• Support health and safety risk management in line with client requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Project coordination

Education

Engineering or Architecture degree

Tools

RIBA stages knowledge

BIM

Job description

Black & White Engineering in Edinburgh seeks an experienced Design Manager to lead the design process across multidisciplinary engineering projects. You will coordinate teams, manage design delivery, and drive governance and risk management to achieve project objectives.

You will work closely with clients and internal teams to maintain high standards, quality, and delivery performance while supporting continuous improvement within Design Management.