Site Design Manager

The role requires a candidate with experience in managing the Data Centre design to meet reliability

and availability requirement, efficiency & sustainability benchmark (PUE & WUE), international best

practices, regulatory requirement, safety in design, cost target and speed to market.

Key Responsibilities

He/She is accountable for completing multiple projects in parallel (both greenfield and fit out), within

budget and program. The project will span across regional metros.

This role must develop design brief & key metrics to ensure consistency in design quality and

requirements. As such, he/she holds consultant and professional team accountable for meeting the

project design intent and deliverables. He/ She will manage a consortium of consultant and

professional team which includes but not limited to town planner, architect, civil & structural engineer,

mechanical and electrical engineer, environmental consultant, LEED consultant, and geotechnical

engineer. He/ She will partner with suppliers and designer to drive improvement initiatives in safety,

efficiency and sustainability.

The role will involve travelling to site to ensure the method of construction, site coordination and

equipment performance meets design criteria, concurrent maintainability and reliability standards.

Key deliverables for the role are as follows :

• Site due diligence

• Well-versed in authority submission protocol

• Fulfilment of authority submission requirement

• Pre-customer contract planning and design

• Deliver the design for core & shell and municipal services until achieving occupancy permit

• Manage consultants on key design milestones

• Manage consultants on quality of design

• Manage core & shell design variation

• Cross-disciplinary coordination

• Timely resolution of construction issues

• Responsible for code compliant design

• Responsible for the planning of resources to meet project requirements.

• 1st level of escalation and coordinator with internal and external stakeholders.

• Initiator of design improvement from lesson learnt.

• Oversee project design delivery and construction quality

• Provide innovative proposal to improve speed to market in design delivery

Requirements

• Proven design experience across regional metros

• Professional Engineer/Registered Architect with practicing certificate preferred

• 10+ years in design consultancy with at least 5 years in principal engineer position

• Excellent interpersonal skills, communication, leadership & influencing skills

• Experienced in Design Bid Build, Design & Build and other design delivery methodology

• Experience in hyper scale Data Center is preferred

• Proficient in English and Mandarin to effectively communicate with Mandarin-speaking clients.

• Willing to be relocated & travel on project requirement