Goodman
Real Estate
DesignManagerDataCentres
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“Design Manager Data Centres at Goodman. Skills: Design Management, Stakeholder Management. The Design Manager will oversee all design activities for data centre projects, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective, and timely design solutions from inception through construction. This involves managing engineering firms, coordinating multidisciplinary systems (power, cooling, IT, security, firefighting, CSA), and ensuring compliance with project requirements and regulations. The role also includes man”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver high-quality, time and cost-effective design solutions, aiming for a 100% satisfaction rate with accurate construction documents and specifications. Proactively identify and effectively manage design-related risks to ensure projects remain on track and within budget.
Industry & Context.
Value engineering; Risk management; Cost-benefit analyses
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Requires leadership qualities, customer management skills, excellent communication, coordination, and presentation abilities, an analytical mindset with attention to detail, and strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities under pressure. Must be able to develop creative solutions to reduce costs while maintaining high standards.
Nice to Have
Experience in guiding new design concepts through detailed design, peer review, construction, and operational phases is preferred. Knowledge of French is also noted.
What You'll Do.
The Design Manager will oversee all design activities for data centre projects, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective, and timely design solutions from inception through construction.
This involves managing engineering firms, coordinating multidisciplinary systems (power, cooling, IT, security, firefighting, CSA), and ensuring compliance with project requirements and regulations.
The role also includes managing tendering processes, consultant agreements, and overseeing the General Contractor's design efforts, while proactively managing risks and promoting sustainable design practices.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborates closely with the Project Lead, Project Manager, wider project team, internal departments, external consultants, and contractors to ensure seamless design integration and project success. Represents the organization in design and project meetings with external parties and ensures clear communication of design elements and changes to all stakeholders.
Communication Scope
Coordination; Presentation skills; Executive presentations
Process & Methodology
Agile
Full Job Description
Always wanted to challenge the obvious and make great things happen? At Goodman we create space for your greatness. Our organization is a dynamic and innovative real estate company, serving as both a developer and investor with a primary focus on logistics real estate. We are expanding our portfolio to include cutting-edge data centre development projects and are therefore seeking experienced data centre professionals. Goodman is seeking an experienced Design Manager (based in Paris, France) to join our expanding Data Centre project team. As the Design Manager, you will play a pivotal role in our data centre projects, working closely with the Project Lead and the Project Manager, the wider project team, the internal departments, external consultants and contractors. Your primary responsibilities will include inter alia: selecting and managing engineering firms and experts, delivering high-quality, time and cost-effective design solutions and overseeing the Contractor’s design efforts before and during construction. The ideal candidate has a strong background in multidisciplinary design management (CSA, MEP, Firefighting, etc.), extensive experience in hyperscale or colocation data centres, and the ability to manage complex stakeholders’ environments. More concretely, this means: Key Responsibilities: 1. Design Management + Coordinate, advise, monitor and control project design team (internal and external) activities to deliver high-quality design solutions at the best time, cost, sustainability, reliability, scalability, safety and constructability options. + Ensure coordination and integration of all systems (power, cooling, IT, security, firefighting) and with respect to CSA (Civil, Structural, Architectural) aspects. + Lead cost/time-benefit analyses and present solutions that meet project goals. + Manage appointed engineering firms and selected experts and consultants, distributing tasks and workload to ensure balanced output and the delivery of quality design w
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