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Design Manager

Black & White Engineering 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Onsite Full-time Manager

Lead multidisciplinary design delivery for major data centre and mission-critical projects, coordinating internal teams, external consultants, and clients across the design lifecycle. Manage programmes, risks, change, quality, commercial performance, governance, and stakeholder communications while supporting team development and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary design delivery for major data centre and mission-critical projects, coordinating internal teams, external consultants, and clients across the design lifecycle. Manage programmes, risks, change, quality, commercial performance, governance, and stakeholder communications while supporting team development and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have an engineering or architecture degree, preferably with chartered status or equivalent accreditation, and at least eight years of experience leading complex engineering or design projects. They should bring experience managing large multidisciplinary teams, ideally on data centre or mission-critical infrastructure projects, along with strong design management, commercial, communication, leadership, and client management skills.

Benefits

  • Professional Development Opportunities
  • Leadership Growth
  • Global Project Exposure

Key Skills

Multidisciplinary Design Delivery Data Centre Design Mission‑Critical Project Management Programme Management Risk Management Change Management Quality Management Commercial Performance Governance Stakeholder Communication Team Development Continuous Improvement Leadership Client Management 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 34 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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