Design Manager CSA

Atlasedge; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AtlasEdge is seeking a Design Manager to lead multidisciplinary design across data centre projects, ensuring robust, compliant and cost-effective outcomes. You will manage external consultants, coordinate with internal teams, and drive design standards, constructability and speed to market in a fast-paced environment.

This role requires strong communication, travel within project locations, and a track record of delivering complex MEP-heavy schemes.

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering or Architecture.
• Master’s degree preferred but not essential.
• PE/Chartered membership preferred.
• 5–10 years in design management for data-centre projects.
• Proven track record delivering multi-disciplinary design.
• Experience with MEP coordination and planning permits.

Responsibilities

• Lead external design consultants and contractors to meet design brief.
• Review and approve design proposals and technical data.
• Coordinate with local utilities to secure power delivery.
• Liaise with planning authorities for permits and approvals.
• Coordinate fibre routes and information with providers.
• Contribute to development of internal design standards.
• Ensure consistency of design information across teams.
• Collaborate with Architectural, MEP, and other partners to deliver design packages.
• Produce renderings to support sales and company promotion.
• Help transition projects to operations with proper handover documentation.

Skills

Design management

Stakeholder collaboration

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Architectural knowledge

Civil/Structural engineering

Education

Bachelors in Civil/Structural Engineering or Architecture

PE/Chartered (preferred)

Tools

ASite

BIM360

Revit/BIM

Bluebeam

Job description

The Design Manager is responsible for leading the multidisciplinary design of AtlasEdge data centre projects and acting as a SME on Civil, Structural & Architectural discipline matters.

The role manages external design consultants and partners to deliver high-quality, cost-effective and resilient data centre designs that meet AtlasEdge product standards, project requirements, local regulations and programme objectives.

The Design Manager will play a key role in ensuring designs are technically robust, commercially viable and delivered at pace, supporting Atlas Edge’s continued development and expansion across its markets.

Reporting to the Director of Design and Planning, the Design Manager will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities throughout the project lifecycle, from early feasibility and site assessment through detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover.

The role may support a range of projects, including:

• Expansion of existing facilities
• Upgrades to existing infrastructure
• M&A transactions and associated technical assessments

The Design Manager will provide direction across design disciplines and manage outsourced consultants to ensure the timely production of coordinated design packages for planning and permitting, power applications, procurement, contractor tendering/pricing and construction.

Working within a matrix environment, the role will collaborate closely with teams across AtlasEdge, including Sales/Bid Management, Customer Solutions, Procurement, Operations, PMO, Construction, Commissioning and Product, ensuring that designs support both project requirements and wider business objectives.

A key focus of the role will be driving design consistency, speed to market, constructability, cost efficiency, resilience and continuous improvement across AtlasEdge’s portfolio.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• To steer and guide and also challenge the external Design Consultants and Contractors when required taking a ‘Trust but Verify’ approach, to ensure they deliver a design to meet the requirements of the Design Brief, periodically assessing and evaluating all project related design decisions presented by consultants and contractors with support if required from the Director of Design.
• Review and approve design proposals, specifications, manuals, and other data submitted for AtlasEdge review on ASite Platform and to evaluate the design feasibility, technical specifications, compliance with the project specifics and local requirements. You will be expected to evolve design process to improve speed-to-market while still ensuring project deliverables are met
• Manage and liaise with local utility providers regularly during the design and construction cycle to enable planned delivery of power to support T&C and RFS of the facility. Support in determining the lowest cost solution for utility provision to sites.
• Liaise with local planning authorities to determine the most expeditious route to commence construction with permits in hand.
• Coordinate with fibre providers to determine routes and timing for fibre connectivity to the facilities including agreeing fibre vault and route information.
• Contributes to the development of design standards in alignment with our product requirements.
• Work with other design managers, senior design managers and SME’s to ensure consistency of design information and repeatable design processes/methodologies.
• During the design process manage and interact with Architectural, Mechanical and Electrical Partners (MEPs), plus other specialities design partners (Controls/Security/Network etc) to deliver components of the design culminating in high quality industry leading design documentation for mission critical facilities.
• Suggest improvements to the reference design post implementation on a project for refinement and streamlining on the next project.
• Participate in the production of technical content to support business case approval by our investors.
• Work with the construction team, the General contractors, subs and equipment suppliers to enable successful on time completion of projects.
• Work with the commissioning team to determine the most expeditious way to commission facilities.
• Produce project renderings to support sales, company promoting and general awareness of AE and the expansions we are undertaking.
• Once the design is complete work with the project teams and customers to ensure projects are documented properly, closed out quickly and transitioned successfully to the local operations team.
• Review with the project cost management teams and construction team the budgets proposed for design services and also provide improvements to design detailing to drive the cost to build down to the AE target build cost.
• Be up-to-date on industry trends and design solutions being developed by our competitors to further inform the product offering and drive the cost to build lower.
• Review and produce designs so that they meet the future needs of our customers for capacity, density, and functionality.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

PREFERRED EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Civil/ Structural Engineering or Architecture. A master’s degree in engineering is prefered but not essential.
• PE/Chartered member preferred but not essential.

EXPERIENCE:

• 5-10 years’ experience in either a Design Consultancy or a design team of a DC operator.
• Proven track record of successful multi-disciplinary design management

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Experience with industry standards, building codes and safety standards
• Experience with design management tools and platforms (ASite. BIM360, Revit/BIM and Bluebeam)
• The ability to work in a collaborative way across all engineering disciplines and with other business functions
• Experience in ASHRAE Testing and Commissioning Levels and Commissioning Planning of mission critical systems, although not essential for the CSA role.
• Experience during the early site selection, design and procurement phases of new build and existing mission critical facilities site reviews, although not essential.
• Good understanding of Construction Contracts.
• Experience with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle
• Good understanding of Design Consultants appointments.
• Excellent working knowledge of RIBA (or AIA and equivalent) design stages.
• Experience with formal change management processes
• Must be able to demonstrate initiative.
• Must have the ability to work accurately under pressure.
• Must be able to operate in an open management style and structure with an emphasis on team working and within AE matrix
• Ability to travel within reasonable notice to visit project’s sites or existing facilities across AE projects locations.
• Excellent communication skills verbally and written.
• Must be able to operate in an open management style and structure with an emphasis on team working and within an AE matrix.
• Substantial experience of working in the data centre and engineering industry.
• Delivery of large capital expenditure projects with a high dependence on MEP.

AtlasEdge is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people.