DC Project Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

As the Engineering Manager, you will lead the design and engineering of multiple concurrent data centre projects across France.

You’ll implement Verne’s Design & Engineering standards, manage challenging deliverables against aggressive project expectations, always within budget and on time.

You will be a senior member of the Verne Engineering team, reporting to the Head of Design & Product Development.

What you’ll do;

• Make the engineering decisions that enable our customers to succeed.
• Apply the Project Engineering Strategy at all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Strategic Brief: Manage test-fit exercises, applying the Verne reference design and any site specific constraints to maximise yield. Technical contributions to permitting matrices, path to power, connectivity and other key technical deliverables.
• Permitting Design: Responsible technical land due diligence and permit design deliverables set and driving the team toward a fully compliant design.
• Procurement Design: Incorporating market and buildability constraints with an emphasis on value engineering and predicable delivery.
• Manufacturing & Construction: Inspection of installations against the Plan of Record in partnership with the development team, acting as technical point of contact. Technical approver of variations.
• Commissioning: Review that scripts adequately describe commissioning activities which demonstrate system design objectives. Witness commissioning.
• Handover: Verify as-builts and all technical documentation adequately describes the facility in a manner that Operations can guarantee uptime.

How you’ll do it:

• Direct and oversee Professional Consultants (Architects, Engineers), Equipment Supplier technical teams and specialist contractor technical teams.
• Work in partnership with Project Engineering lead to address project specific requirements.
• Appoint specialist consultants or suppliers as necessary to achieve specified deliverables.
• Review consultant and supplier technical deliverables for adherence to Verne design & engineering standards.
• Contribute lessons learned and key breakthroughs to Verne design & engineering program continuous improvement.
• Host page turn meetings, review all technical deliverables by the Client Team.
• Develop and maintain vendor relationships (Suppliers, Consultants, Engineers, Architects) to maintain cost-effective services for Verne projects.
• Approve consultant invoices.
• Ensure project engineering reports and progress aligns with Verne Engineering overarching requirements.
• Present the design, design deviations, value engineering report and quality assurance report at the conclusion of each stage gate.

What you’ll need

• Bachelors in Engineering or a physical sciences
• 5+ years experience in a hands-on design role (e.g. performing calculations, authoring specifications and drawing sets as a consultant, or as an in-house engineer for a design build contractor)
• 3+ years in a project delivery capacity (e.g. accountable for managing a schedule of deliverables for technically complex projects)
• Excellence in bringing a team together to deliver
• Degree-level subject matter expertise in at least one Data Center related technical discipline (e.g. electrical distribution, critical cooling, mission critical controls)
• Comfort and familiarity with directing all other technical disciplines and holding individual engineers to account, including general building services engineering.
• Comfort in managing a budget, financial acumen to liaise with finance and to drive cost effectiveness from our professional services supply chain.