Data Center Design Manager — High-Impact Projects

Epsten Group; Nashville, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and company holidays

Wellness programs and employee support

Job summary

Salas O’Brien seeks an Engineering Design Manager – Data Center to lead the design team and manage schedule, budget, and scope for mission-critical facilities with focus on reliability and energy efficiency.

The role requires collaboration across functions, interface with clients, and oversight from concept to closeout, ensuring high-performance data centers and sustainability targets.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years technical experience in an engineering/construction environment.
• Minimum of 3 years project management experience (Data center or mission-critical facility projects preferred).
• Project management certification preferred (such as IAPM or PMP).
• Proficient with Microsoft: Windows, Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Responsibilities

• Receive and review project requirements and obtain clarification on any conflicting, missing, or vague items.
• Plan project activities, costs, and schedules based on team inputs and client scopes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data center designs meet reliability standards, including redundancy in power, cooling, and IT systems to achieve constant uptime.
• Initiate newly awarded projects with team and client stakeholders and establish the performance baselines.
• Interface with clients, locations, and information that may be of sensitive or secure nature.
• Incorporate client requirements for project speed, such as fast-track construction and modular design approaches, to accelerate time-to-market for data center operations.
• Coordinates with the project coordinator to create meeting minutes.
• Ensure quality control meets company standards throughout the project.
• Control project scope when issues or changes surface and coordinate the changes with company management and clients.
• Closeout design projects ensuring all deliverables have been provided and project documentation is complete.
• Track lessons learned and communicate with management to support continuous improvements in company processes.

Skills

Critical environment systems

Data center standards

Power & cooling design

Energy efficiency metrics

Project leadership

CDCMP certification

ATD certification

ASHRAE guidelines

Tools

Bluebeam

SharePoint

SpecsIntact

RSMeans

CAD

Revit

Creo

DCIM

EPMS

SCADA

CFD

CDCMP

ATD

ASHRAE guidelines

Job description

Salas O’Brien seeks an Engineering Design Manager – Data Center to lead the design team and manage schedule, budget, and scope for mission-critical facilities with focus on reliability and energy efficiency.

The role requires collaboration across functions, interface with clients, and oversight from concept to closeout, ensuring high-performance data centers and sustainability targets.