The Engineering Manager will lead the design and engineering of data centre projects, ensuring compliance with standards and budget. Responsibilities include overseeing consultants, managing project deliverables, and maintaining vendor relationships.
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 Centre 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.
Top Skills
Data Centre Design
Engineering Standards
Verne London, England Office
36-43 Great Sutton Street, London, United Kingdom, EC1V0AB
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