[SG] Customer Design Manager
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Customer Design Manager to lead the design and delivery of large-scale data centre projects. This role is responsible for ensuring designs meet reliability, availability, sustainability, safety, regulatory, cost, and schedule requirements while supporting successful project delivery across multiple locations.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage multiple data centre projects simultaneously, including new builds and fit-out projects.
- Develop and maintain design standards, requirements, and performance metrics to ensure consistency across projects.
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, including architects, engineers, planners, environmental specialists, and other consultants.
- Ensure design solutions meet customer requirements, industry best practices, regulatory standards, and operational objectives.
- Review and manage design changes, variations, compliance issues, and technical approvals.
- Collaborate with customers, suppliers, and consultants to improve design quality, sustainability, efficiency, and safety.
- Conduct site visits to verify construction quality, equipment performance, and adherence to design requirements.
- Support technical proposals, customer requests for information, and design reviews.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and incorporate lessons learned into future projects.
- Identify opportunities to improve project delivery speed and design efficiency.
Key Deliverables
- Timely delivery of compliant, high-quality designs.
- Successful handover of projects to customers.
- Consistent design standards across projects.
- Effective management of design changes and technical risks.
- Strong customer engagement and technical alignment.
- Continuous improvement of design processes and project outcomes.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree qualification in Architecture, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Professional registration or chartered status is advantageous.
- Significant experience in design consultancy, including leadership of complex projects.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary design teams and external consultants.
- Understanding of various project delivery methods, including Design-Bid-Build and Design-and-Build.
- Data centre design experience is highly desirable, particularly within large-scale or hyperscale environments.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and influencing skills.
- Proficiency in English; additional regional language skills are beneficial.
- Willingness to travel for project and business requirements.
If you are interested, kindly apply with your latest CV detailing your data center construction project experience. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Contact: Theodora Po (Lic. No R22107740 / EA No. 16S8194)
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