Specialist Consultant - Data Centre

Company 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.

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Job Description

The primary responsibility of the position is to consult with the clients’ design leads of various projects and work with internal teams to create strategies and project plans to address the business needs. The candidate should be able to provide multi-disciplinary advice on all aspects of infrastructure and related technology components on Data Centre and Industrial projects.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to driving the various design and costing teams to identify and evaluate alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Support a program or project by assisting the client to prepare technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
• Takes responsibility for understanding the client requirements, analysis of the design and proactively assist in problem resolution.
• Assists the client as additional technical oversight of the detail design drawings and specifications for the Data Centre components, ratings and interfaces including the review of the design components presented by the technical design teams. Ensures the design team is using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Assist the client’s appointed PM and QS team as technical advisor.
• Contribute to commercial assessment of projects from pre-feasibility through to construction.
• Assist the project team in the contract management of the contractors and various discipline specific subcontractors.
• Assist with the procurement process of the Owner Furnished Capital Equipment.
• Attend technical design reviews.
• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Do site visits as required to assist the site team to ensure success of all projects. This includes partial presence on site during critical stages of a project.
• Additional oversight review of contractor documentation during the lifetime of the project.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
• Project or Program Management experience would be preferred.
• Data Centre experience and training would be beneficial.
• Proven client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years in Design Management, minimum 10 years overall.

University Degree in Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Engineering or equivalent.

• Demonstrable experience in design of mission critical and/or similar hi-tech content M&E led industries (e.g., Sugar or Paper industry, Pharmaceutical, Food and Drink manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Energy, etc.).

• Experience working within multi-disciplinary design teams, preferably in a leading role.

• Experience in design consultant/client engineer/site engineer/contractor engineer roles.

• International experience and outlook both in type of company (multi-national Consultant/ Contractor/Operator) and project experience (have worked on projects outside home country, ideally have lived outside home country for a period).

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