Design Manager - MEP
2 days ago
London
Position title: Design Manager – Data Centers (MEP) The Position As Design Manager for Data Centres (MEP), based in London, you will lead multi-disciplinary design delivery across high-profile mission critical projects. You’ll manage multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to ensure seamless, high-quality outcomes, providing technical and commercial leadership from concept through to handover and post-handover stages. You will act as NDY’s primary client liaison on design matters, championing design excellence, collaboration and sustainable solutions in complex, energy-intensive environments. Key Challenges • Managing complex, multidisciplinary design teams and stakeholders under tight timeframes, • Delivering resilient facility designs within challenging budget constraints, • Balancing client requirements and industry standards with innovative, sustainable design approaches, • Demonstrating NDY’s market-leading engineering to drive repeat business and growth Your Key Accountabilities Project delivery and design management • Lead and coordinate MEP design activities from concept to handover, ensuring integration across disciplines, • Manage programme, cost and risk, resolving issues to meet commercial objectives, • Maintain design documentation, including risk registers, change logs and quality assurance, • Coordinate technical deliverables such as specifications, calculations and design reports, • Facilitate design reviews, client meetings and workshops, • Support procurement, testing, commissioning and post-handover activities Client and stakeholder management • Serve as primary client contact for design matters, effectively managing expectations, • Build strong relationships with architects, engineers, contractors and other stakeholders, • Identify and pursue business opportunities through client engagement and networking People leadership and development • Mentor, coach and manage project engineers, designers and consultants, • Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture that promotes knowledge sharing and growth, • Ensure adherence to NDY’s quality, health and safety, and sustainability standards What We’re Looking For Qualifications and certifications • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or equivalent, • Chartered Engineer status preferred or working towards Skills and experience • 7–12 years’ experience managing MEP design on data centres or mission critical projects, • Strong knowledge of data centre systems: UPS, standby generation, electrical distribution, earthing, battery systems, CRAC/CRAH, chilled water, pumping, controls/BMS, • Proven success leading multidisciplinary teams and delivering on time and budget, • Experience managing client relationships and stakeholder communications on complex projects Additional Skills • Excellent communication and presentation skills, • Commercially aware with strong problem-solving and decision-making capability, • Capable of working independently and collaboratively under pressure, • Familiarity with Uptime Institute tiering, ISO/IEC critical facility standards is desirable, • Experience in sustainable and low-carbon design for high-energy facilities is a plus Why NDY? At NDY, you’ll join a leading international firm known for engineering excellence and innovation. We offer hybrid and flexible working, a supportive and inclusive culture, and opportunities to grow your career on iconic projects that make a difference. Apply now Make spaces work – join NDY’s team as a Design Manager for Data Centres in London. NDY is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.