Job Description

About Us

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. 

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. 

Scope of Work

As a Design Project Manager reporting to the Senior Technical Director, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating and managing all aspects of the design process for Data Centre projects. Acting as the client’s agent, you will collaborate with stakeholders, design consultants, construction management firms, and contractors to ensure that project objectives are met. This role encompasses design oversight, contract management, and quality assurance while maintaining alignment with the client’s vision and standards. 

Specific Job Task – The Datacentre Design Manager is responsible for overseeing, coordinating, and providing critical technical guidance throughout various phases of data centre projects. This role involves collaboration with both internal and external teams, leading specialized workgroups, and making essential design decisions to ensure project success

Role accountabilities  

• Act as the client’s authorized representative, managing design and construction contracts.   

• Collaborate with stakeholder groups, design consultants, and contractors to align project goals.   

• Coordinate design packages, ensuring consistency between the client and third-party contractors.   

  Design Oversight  

• Manage design efforts for domestic and international projects.   

• Track and resolve escalated design issues.   

• Lead value engineering and constructability reviews of project documents.   

  Contract Administration 

• Support contract negotiations in collaboration with the client’s legal counsel.   

• Develop and execute design contracts and amendments.   

  Deliverables Management  

• Oversee the creation and maintenance of essential project deliverables, including:   

• Design project plans (scope, schedules, budgets, risk logs).   

•  Design trackers (review checklists, decision trackers, comment logs).   

•  Regular reports (monthly design reports, constructability reviews, value engineering reports).   

• Ensure updates to site change control logs, risk logs, and as-built design models.   

Quality Assurance  

• Monitor QA/QC processes and report gaps to the client.   

• Ensure compliance with client design standards and expectations.   

Financial Oversight   

• Coordinate cost estimates for scope gaps and changes.   

• Manage invoice processing, tracking, and reporting.   
• Negotiate and resolve outstanding change orders or disputes. 

• Support program travel for team meetings and general management.   

• Schedule and manage third-party contractors and consultants engaged by the client. 

Qualifications & Experience: 

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with: 

 Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.