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
- Fluent French
- 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.