Description
This is a senior leadership role focused on design management and governance for data centre projects.
You will operate at the centre of project delivery, coordinating across MEP disciplines, architects, specialist consultants, and client teams from concept through to commissioning and handover.
Responsibilities
- Lead design governance across complex, multidisciplinary data centre programs, ensuring alignment to client outcomes and project objectives.
- Establish and drive design management frameworks, including design management plans, schedules, and interface strategies.
- Facilitate structured design reviews, coordination forums, and risk workshops to enable informed decision-making and issue resolution.
- Lead client engagement and optioneering, translating requirements into integrated, value-driven, and future-ready design solutions.
- Act as the central point of accountability for design coordination across internal teams, consultants, and stakeholders.
- Manage design change, risks, and opportunities, ensuring clear governance, documentation, and traceability.
- Partner with project leadership to align design delivery with program, procurement, cost, and construction milestones.
- Oversee technical assurance and quality processes, ensuring discipline leads deliver to agreed standards and outcomes.
- Review and guide design deliverables at key gateways, providing clear, actionable direction.
- Champion and embed consistent design standards and governance frameworks across projects and portfolios.
Requirements
- Degree qualification in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Building Services, or similar), or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience within an engineering consultancy or integrated project environment, leading design delivery on large, complex projects.
- Demonstrated success in multidisciplinary design management, ideally within data centres or other mission-critical environments.
- Strong capability across design governance and project controls, including execution planning, scheduling, risk and change management, and commercial oversight of subconsultants.
- The ability to influence, align, and lead diverse stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and specialist partners.
- Clear and structured communication skills, with confidence to facilitate, present, and drive decisions at senior levels.
- Working knowledge of Australian codes and standards (NCC, AS/NZS), with exposure to BIM coordination tools (Revit, Navisworks) advantageous.
Benefits
- Flexible, inclusive environment
- Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Range of benefits that support health, wellbeing, and work-life balance