Location: Lagos, Nigeria
As a Design Manager your skill set will include mechanical, electrical, controls engineering or architect, where you will be accountable for a range of design decisions related to our portfolio of datacenter projects which can include new construction, phased expansion, retrofits and upgrades, acquisition conversions, mechanical and electrical equipment selection.It is anticipated that you will have demonstrable experience with mission critical facility projects having worked with a building service design team, architectural design practice, sub-contractor or Mission Critical Building operator
Your principal job responsibilities will be:
Design Process

• Owns a subset of the design process and interacts with Architectural, Mechanical and Electrical Partners (MEPs), and other design partners to deliver assigned components of world class datacenters with a strong focus on technical excellence, mission critical resilience and cost management
• Contributes to the development of globally standardized tools, techniques and processes for the management and reporting of the design process
• Works with peers in other regions to ensure consistency and technical excellence in design and delivery practices and methodologies
• Thinks and acts in a global manner, ensuring design decisions are developed and discussed with more senior staff to ensure appropriateness on a global basis

In the regional role:

• Supports senior staff to obtain and define site specific conditions, utility and infrastructure design, costs and availability of utilities, liaison with planning authorities and local logistics including site logistics during construction and phasing
• Provides locally informed and compliant infrastructure design, supply information to and collaborates with the master planning function.
• Provides local design engineering to support site specific changes to templates
• Reviews the masterplan for delivery and submits to senior staff for approval

In the Center of Excellence role:

• Supports senior staff in the master planning of expansion portfolio using global design standards and templates, incorporating regional information to apply these to the inception of projects
• Generates project visualization, initial model using reference design templates and cost estimate for business case inception
• Liaises with regional team to incorporate local infrastructure into the design
• Liaises with construction cost team regionally and globally to assist business case generation

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with all internal and external partners, including design partners, construction management, commercial management, and regional P&L holders
• Consults the center of excellence teams and more senior Design staff to augment their individual technical expertise to ensure all facets of the datacenter design are adequately considered and approved
• Leads internal and external resources through their influence and proficiency to assist in the development of assigned designs

Project Management

• Manages a portion of the design schedule for assigned projects to ensure on time creation and review of Basis of Designs (BODs), Real Estate Investment Committee (REIC) Submissions, and design documentation for Issued for Permit (IFP) and Issued for Construction (IFC) sets
• Works together with construction managers, GMs and subs to deliver projects during construction once the design phase is completed and ensures projects are fully documented and closed out

In the regional role:

• Works together with more senior staff, construction managers, general contractors and subcontractors to deliver assigned parts of projects during construction once the design phase is completed and ensure projects are fully documented and closed out
• Tracks with the aid of the commercial management team, any concerns with design budgets and change management requests during the construction phase, in consultation with the Construction Manager

In the Center of Excellence role:

• Works together with the regional design teams and Construction Managers to deliver elements of the Concept Designs and Standards that support the delivery of world class datacenters
• Ensure timely and appropriate internal communications - Working collaboratively with the Management Team to ensure information flow is efficient and effective

Design Oversight:

• Stays up-to-date on advancements in design being investigated by the centers of excellence teams to ensure technologies support future IBX design and construction needs and feedback information to construction for incorporation of changes
• Reviews designs so that they meet Equinix’s Global Design Standards and the business needs for capacity, density, and function

 

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