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Design Manager

Black & White Engineering 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Full-time Manager

Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, programmes, workflows, and deliverables to support complex engineering projects from design through construction. Manage stakeholder relationships, project risks, change, quality, cost, programme performance, governance, and project controls.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams, programmes, workflows, and deliverables to support complex engineering projects from design through construction. Manage stakeholder relationships, project risks, change, quality, cost, programme performance, governance, and project controls.

Requirements

  • Requires prior experience in design management or a similar project delivery role, a degree in engineering, architecture, or a related technical discipline, and experience with multidisciplinary teams on complex engineering projects. Candidates should have strong coordination, communication, stakeholder, governance, and commercial skills, with knowledge of RIBA preconstruction stages 0–5 or an equivalent framework; professional accreditation and data centre or infrastructure experience are advantageous.

Benefits

  • Career Development
  • Project Ownership
  • Client Exposure
  • Collaborative Culture
  • Autonomy and Responsibility

Key Skills

Design management Multidisciplinary team coordination RIBA pre‑construction stages 0‑5 Stakeholder relationship management Project risk management Change management Quality control Cost management Programme performance monitoring Governance and project controls Engineering consultancy processes Data centre design knowledge Infrastructure project delivery Commercial acumen Communication and negotiation Leadership and mentorship Collaboration with architects and engineers Strategic planning

About Black & White Engineering

Black & White Engineering is a global, award-winning critical buildings and infrastructure engineering consultancy. With over 19 years of engineering excellence, we've become one of the world's leading data centre design specialists, delivering some of the largest and most technically challenging projects globally. We operate best as an extension of a client's team. Trusted by the world's leading operators and developers to navigate digital acceleration, we deliver technically excellent solutions that are clear, simple and correct. On time, on budget and built to last. Our mission is clear: bringing the right people together, delivering complex projects with certainty and driving progress through innovation and sustainability. It's how we keep solutions as clear and simple as Black & White. With over 1,300 professionals across 31 locations worldwide, our One Global Team brings local expertise to every project, wherever in the world it needs to be delivered. OUR VALUES Accountabili

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