WSP

1 month ago

Senior Data Centre Design Manager (Building Services)

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Job Summary

Lead multidisciplinary design management for complex data centre projects, coordinating MEP disciplines and architects from concept through commissioning. Drive design governance, schedules, budgets, QA/HSE, and continuous improvement while liaising with clients, consultants, and vendors to deliver secure, efficient, and sustainable digital infrastructure.

Location: Melbourne

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Lead teams in the design of data centre critical infrastructure and facilitate regular design forums with internal engineering resources, client stakeholders and external consultants to resolve issues, meet milestones and actively mitigate risk.
•Drive process improvements and tool optimisation across the design lifecycle; prepare business review materials; establish metrics for cost, quality and schedule; and feed construction and commissioning data back into continuous improvement.
•Set and manage capital design budgets, contribute to business cases for new and existing regions, and collaborate with finance to secure funding and track performance.
•Coordinate resources across disciplines and influence design changes based on evolving customer or site needs, maintaining robust document control and change management records.
•Champion QA and HSE compliance, capture lessons learned and embed best practice across our mission critical portfolio.

Key Requirements

•Bachelor degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Building Services or related) or equivalent.
•Proven experience in an engineering consultancy delivering large, complex building services projects, ideally mission critical or data centres.
•Structured design management capability, including Project Execution Plans, master programs and trackers, change and risk controls, cost and quality KPIs and commercial stewardship of sub consultant scopes.
•Stakeholder engagement skills that build trust across clients, contractors, authorities and vendors, supported by crisp communication and documentation.
•Working knowledge of Australian Codes and Standards (e.g., NCC and AS/NZS); desirable exposure to BIM coordination tools such as Revit and Navisworks.

Experience:Data centresBuilding servicesEngineering consultancy

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementLeadershipTeam collaborationProblem-solving

Tech Stack:RevitNavisworksBIMBIM coordination

Company Brief

WSP

Global professional services firm providing engineering, consulting, and technical services across infrastructure, environment, buildings, transportation, and energy sectors for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.

Industry: Professional Services

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada

Founded: 1959

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