Design Manager

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 50,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**:
AECOM is seeking a Design Manager (Data Centers) to be based out of our any major Canadian offices.

Job Responsibilities

+ Identify, onboard, and offboard design resources in coordination with department leadership (as needed to support project execution)

+ Lead data center core and shell due diligence and design projects (including civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, security, and fire protection for greenfield and add/move/change projects) from start to finish, ensuring budget/schedule adherence, satisfaction of design requirements, and repeatable quality.

+ Develop and enforce multi-site project and program management plans.

+ Administer, oversee, and perform peer review and quality checks in line with client and AECOM standards.

+ Oversee and maintain responsibility for project basis of design and localization process.

+ Establish and oversee a process to detect, track and resolve scope changes, errors, or inconsistencies throughout the design process.

+ Host and attend meetings with clients and external stakeholders.

+ Manage and grow AECOM’s data center design team, fostering a sense of comradery, collective ownership, and collaboration.

+ Proactively manage and communicate change throughout the project both within AECOM and to our clients.

+ Identify problems early and develop creative solutions.

+ Proactively communicate with all stakeholders to provide project updates and resolve outstanding issues.

+ Develop technical and financial proposals for new and add/move/change data center design projects

+ Develop trusting relationships with client stakeholders/buyers

+ Oversee preparation of project administration documents including:
+ Design status updates

+ Action item/risk tracker

+ Meeting minutes

+ Quality reports

**Qualifications**:
**Minimum Requirements**:
+ Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering, plus 10 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

**Preferred Qualifications**:
+ Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering

+ 10 years of relevant experience in design and/or project management

+ Registered Professional Engineer

+ Lean Six Sigma Certification

+ Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Professional

+ Active or recent leadership in data center and mission-critical trade organization

+ 10 years in colocation and/or hyper-scale data center design management & engineering

+ Excellent communication (written/oral)

+ Ability to work in dynamic, time-sensitive situations and with mínimal oversight

+ Team leadership skills

+ Strong interpersonal and presentation skills

Additional Information

+ Relocation is not available for this position.

+ Sponsorship is not available for this position.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

**ReqID**: J10080325

**Business Line**: B&P - Buildings & Places

**Business Group**: DCS

**Strategic Business Unit**: Canada

**Career Area**: Engineering