Data Center Special Projects Design Lead

Switch; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible / remote opportunities

Generous benefits package

Job summary

Switch is seeking a Special Projects Design Project Manager to lead design activities from concept to issued-for-construction documents for data center projects. You will coordinate architects, engineers, contractors, and internal teams to align with schedules, budgets, and operational requirements.

You will manage design reviews, ensure code compliance, and drive risk mitigation while maintaining progress across multiple complex projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in design management, construction project management, or related field.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering and construction design packages.
• Working knowledge of data center or mission-critical facility design and infrastructure systems.
• Ability to read and review engineering drawings, specs, reports, and construction documents.
• Experience managing consultants, contractors, vendors, or external project partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple design projects from concept development through issued-for-construction documents and project execution.
• Establish project design scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, and budget requirements.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design activities across electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, architectural, and telecom disciplines.
• Manage architects, engineering consultants, and design partners to ensure quality, schedule adherence, and contract performance.
• Lead design review meetings and coordinate stakeholder comments, decisions, and resolutions.
• Review drawings, specifications, calculations, reports, and other design documents for completeness and constructability.
• Ensure designs comply with codes, permitting, standards, and Switch requirements.
• Support data center expansions, retrofits, upgrades, migrations, and capacity growth projects.
• Review consultant proposals, scopes of work, and fee estimates for alignment with objectives.
• Lead constructability reviews and identify opportunities to reduce risk and improve reliability.
• Maintain design schedules, track milestones, and communicate risks or delays to leadership.
• Support project budgeting and cost estimating during planning and design.
• Review design changes and impacts to cost, schedule, and operations.
• Support procurement through review of equipment specs and vendor submittals.
• Identify design, constructability, schedule, cost, and operational risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Maintain accurate project records and design logs.

Skills

Project management

Design coordination

Stakeholder comms

Risk management

Multidisciplinary coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Bluebeam

BIM platforms

Microsoft Project

Procore

Job description

Switch is seeking a Special Projects Design Project Manager to lead design activities from concept to issued-for-construction documents for data center projects. You will coordinate architects, engineers, contractors, and internal teams to align with schedules, budgets, and operational requirements.

You will manage design reviews, ensure code compliance, and drive risk mitigation while maintaining progress across multiple complex projects.