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Design Manager | Data Centres

Mission Critical Recruitment 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

$200,000 - $220,000 (AUD) Full-time Manager

Lead multidisciplinary design for hyperscale data centre projects from concept through construction and commissioning, including appointing consultants and vendors and developing design briefs. Coordinate stakeholders, provide technical guidance, review and approve design documentation, and ensure designs meet project objectives, budgets, timelines, codes, standards, and sustainability requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary design for hyperscale data centre projects from concept through construction and commissioning, including appointing consultants and vendors and developing design briefs. Coordinate stakeholders, provide technical guidance, review and approve design documentation, and ensure designs meet project objectives, budgets, timelines, codes, standards, and sustainability requirements.

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, or building services engineering is required. Candidates should have proven design management experience on large-scale, complex data centre or comparable projects, in-depth CSA and MEP design knowledge, and strong leadership and project management skills; structural expertise is preferred, while civil or architectural backgrounds are also considered.

Benefits

  • Superannuation
  • Bonus Potential Up To 50%

Key Skills

Design management Multidisciplinary team leadership Data centre design Project management Stakeholder coordination Technical guidance Design documentation review Budget management Schedule control Code compliance (CSA, local codes) MEP systems knowledge Sustainability standards Risk assessment Vendor and consultant selection Design brief development Construction commissioning Problem solving Leadership Communication Negotiation Contract review Quality assurance Change management Strategic planning Cross‑functional collaboration

About Mission Critical Recruitment

At Mission Critical Recruitment (MCR), we provide the people that power data centres. With a deep understanding of the rapidly evolving nature of the data centre industry, we keep our fingers close to the pulse in order to build talent pools of not only the best people currently operating in the industry, but also those who have the cross-transferrable skills from other mission critical industries who can share their expertise from other mature sectors. With a rich track record of placing candidates who have gone on to become industry leaders, we stand proud in playing our part in enhancing the data centre sector. Incorporated in 2018, we are the leading data centre recruitment agency in APAC. We are proud to be the recruiter of choice for not only many of the most exciting businesses in the industry, but for many of the best candidates. We operate across a number of specialisations, including: · Engineering and Construction · Executive and Commercial · Facilit

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