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The role owns the cross organizational design quality, acting as the technical authority across key disciplines (CSA, MEP, controls, networks, and power substation), and drives design decisions that balance technical performance, economics, schedule, and supply chain availability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>RESPONSIBILITIES<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead design delivery:\u00a0Own high-level, low-level, and campus masterplanning design.<\/li>\n<li>Act as technical authority:\u00a0Provide product implementation expertise across CSA, MEP, controls, networks, and power substations.<\/li>\n<li>Client:\u00a0Interface with the Client during the sales cycle and during the delivery of the data centre.<\/li>\n<li>Authorities: Lead the design permitting process, interfacing with local permitting bodies ensuring permitting constraints are met, and ultimately ensuring permits for construciton are granted.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure design quality &amp; performance:\n<ul>\n<li>Guarantee Max IT capacity and SLA compliance<\/li>\n<li>Deliver efficiency targets (PUE, WUE)<\/li>\n<li>Deliver a design which meets permitting requirements<\/li>\n<li>Develop a design which is optimized to meet the Data4 and Client\u2019s SLA performance requirements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Define and optimise technical solutions:\n<ul>\n<li>Set equipment requirements with programme, delivery, and supply chain<\/li>\n<li>Optimise design to target cost metrics<\/li>\n<li>Drive modular \/ prefabricated design approaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Select and validate vendors:\n<ul>\n<li>Support vendor selection<\/li>\n<li>Validate technical specifications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Support constructability:\n<ul>\n<li>Define construction methods<\/li>\n<li>Ensure design is buildable and aligned with delivery constraints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate commissioning readiness:\u00a0Interface with commissioning requireemts to Define, review, and validate commissioning protocols are included for execution<\/li>\n<li>Engage with customers &amp; stakeholders:\n<ul>\n<li>Support technical discussions, engineering reviews and the prospecting and contract negotiation stage<\/li>\n<li>Provide SME input for utility and permitting topics<\/li>\n<li>Lead techncial validation with the Client during the execution phase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Drive project alignment:\u00a0Work with project controls and delivery to ensure schedule and cost adherence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RESPONSIBILITES IN TERMS OF IMS CERTIFICATIONS<\/p>\n<p>Respect and enforce certification policies in terms of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>H&amp;S:\u00a0Respect and enforce health and safety rules.<\/li>\n<li>Environment:\u00a0Respect and enforce environmental policies.<\/li>\n<li>Information security:\u00a0Respect and enforce information security policies<\/li>\n<li>Energy:\u00a0Respect and enforce the policy of reducing energy consumption.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>REQUIREMENTS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Education and experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Technical Design Engineering experience (E.g. Electrical, Mechanical, Architectural, ICT, Civil\/Structural Engineering).<\/li>\n<li>More than 5 years\u2019 experience in data centres.<\/li>\n<li>Proven experience leading multi-discipline design scopes across campus and data hall infrastructure (masterplanning through detailed design).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data centre engineering and delivery constraints: CSA \/ MEP design integration, Controls, networks (as relevant to DC infrastructure), and power substation interfaces<\/li>\n<li>Ability to make technical decisions based on Data4 product, Clients and site specific requirements. Coordination with SME\u2019s as needed for specific deviations and high level expertise.<\/li>\n<li>Commissioning concepts, protocol definition and execution readiness<\/li>\n<li>Ability to define and validate equipment technical requirements, specifications and vendor submittals.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of balanced commercial objectives of a data centre masterplanning &#8211; Ability to optimise designs against performance metrics (including PUE\/WUE), MaxIT capacity, risk and speed.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated ability to combine technical and business skills to propose the right balance between technical specifications, cost, , speed SLAs and supply chain availability \/ delivery lead time.<\/li>\n<li>Cross functional management experience with a mid-size team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Behavioral skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and conflict-resolution skills<\/li>\n<li>Structured problem-solving<\/li>\n<li>Makes and owns decisions<\/li>\n<li>Rigour, and a quality-first mindset<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_promoted":"","_application":"https:\/\/data4.bamboohr.com\/careers\/222?source=aWQ9MTg%3D","_filled":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job-categories":[629],"job-types":[638],"class_list":["post-35946","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","hentry","job-type-cdi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Design Manager - France - DATA4 - Smart Data Centers at Scale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.data4group.com\/de\/carrieres\/design-manager-france\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Design Manager - France - DATA4 - Smart Data Centers at Scale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ABOUT THE ROLE The Design Manager is accountable for the end-to-end design of data centres and campus infrastructure projects, ensuring solutions meet Data4\u2019s design standards, customer requirements, programme constraints, and Data4 quality and performance standards. 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