Design Manager-Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Hong Kong seeks a senior design lead to drive end-to-end data centre design delivery, ensuring alignment with programme, budget and technical requirements. You will coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, chair design reviews, and govern guidelines across the project lifecycle.

With a background in building services and data centre projects, you will manage cost and schedule, lead change control and oversee commissioning to support a successful handover.

Qualifications

• HKIE corporate member with design background preferred.
• Experience delivering data centre or mission-critical building projects.
• Familiar with multi-disciplinary design environments and MEP-driven fits-outs.

Responsibilities

• Lead project set-up and end-to-end design delivery for data centre projects.
• Coordinate and manage multi-disciplinary consultant teams and chair design reviews.
• Implement and govern in-house design guidelines and standardised solutions.
• Own design governance across design development and delivery stages.
• Control and report on project cost and schedule with budgets and milestones.
• Oversee change control, budgets, contracts and invoice approvals.
• Provide technical leadership and resolve RFIs and submittals.
• Co-manage commissioning activities and IST for handover.
• Produce monthly reporting and pipeline metrics in line with corporate requirements.
• Champion buildability, safety and quality by design across lifecycle.
• Ensure standard designs at milestones and resolve design challenges.
• Contribute to enhancing in-house design standards with market insights.

Skills

Multi-disciplinary coordination

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Data centre design experience

Project governance

Education

HKIE corporate member

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Who is Turner & Townsend?

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

• Lead project set-up and end-to-end design delivery for data centre projects, ensuring alignment with programme, budget and technical requirements
• Coordinate and manage multi-disciplinary consultant teams and take lead in cross-functional design reviews
• Implement and govern the in-house design engineering guidelines and standardised design solutions
• Own design governance under the in-house workflow framework, including chairing meetings throughout the entire design development and project delivery stages
• Control and report on project cost and schedule, working closely with project teams on budgets, forecasts and milestone planning
• Oversee change control activities including budget reviews, contracts, change orders and invoice approvals
• Provide technical leadership throughout delivery, resolving escalated RFIs and managing technical submittals to timely closeout
• Co-manage commissioning activities and Integrated Systems Testing (IST) to support safe and successful project handover
• Produce and contribute to monthly project reporting, pipeline metrics and insurance reporting in line with corporate requirements
• Champion buildability, safety and quality by design across all phases of the project lifecycle
• Ensure standard designs are agreed at key milestones and collaborate closely with internal teams to resolve design challenges and deliver project goals
• Support on enhancing the in-house design standards by feeding in lessons learned and market insights

Qualifications

• Corporate member of HKIE in building services /mechanical engineering /electrical engineering or equivalent with design background is preferred.
• Strong mission critical building delivery experience ideally in a multi-disciplinary design environment
• Data centre design experience is preferred or experience of highly serviced building designs within the mission critical sector
• Familiar with MEP driven fit-out works and other key technical areas relevant to the data centre industry
• Ability to clearly explain and communicate complex technical issues, confidently defending design decisions with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Able to work proactively and collaboratively with project teams, contractors and other specialists in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Ability to navigate competing project pressures, assessing solution options against cost, risk, schedule and quality impacts
• Organised in developing and appraising technical solutions, operating effectively within a process-oriented framework and fast-paced environment
• Familiar with processes project gateway and change control as a client or client representative is preferred

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