Vantage Data Centers

Design Manager

Vantage Data Centers

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Port Washington • Texas • Washington • United States

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Salary

💰 $105,000 - $125,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

About the role

  • Act as the connective hub coordinating all design-related communication, milestones, and deliverables across Development, Engineering, Construction, and Operations.
  • Drive product standardization efforts in collaboration with the Product and Engineering teams, ensuring design solutions are both optimized and scalable.
  • Represent Design Management in project governance, risk reviews, and executive updates, providing data-backed insight into performance and decision-making.
  • Collaborate with Construction, Procurement, Telecom, Power, Security, Controls, Commissioning, and Operations teams
  • Manage RFI resolution, design clarifications, change controls, drawing revisions, and design risk escalations
  • Lead concept → schematic → design development → IFC (Issued for Construction) design phases for hyperscale campuses (50–500+ MW portfolios)
  • Lead external architect and consultant teams, ensuring clear scope definition, performance management, and integration into internal workflows.
  • Oversee design milestone delivery, reporting progress against defined KPIs including cost per MW, design cycle time, and change volume.
  • Coordinate regional design feedback loops to improve the next generation of product and design standards.
  • Manage design consultants, AE firms, specialty vendors, and technical stakeholders to deliver full drawings, specifications, calculations, BIM models, and design basis documentation.
  • Maintain alignment with hyperscaler design standards, reference architectures, resiliency tiers, redundancy philosophies and security frameworks.
  • Drive modular design, repeatability, standardization, and prefabrication strategies for speed of deployment.
  • Identify value engineering (VE) opportunities that reduce cost, schedule, and complexity without reducing resilience.
  • Drive TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) metrics including PUE, WUE, power density optimization and redundancy tradeoffs.
  • Lead design risk assessments, mitigation planning, and quality control (QA/QC) audits.
  • Support sequencing, schedule planning, and cost modeling for multi-wave campus builds.
  • Own the development and reporting of design-related metrics and dashboards.
  • Lead lessons learned and change management processes to capture insights and strengthen future project predictability.
  • Partner with data governance and project controls to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and traceability across the portfolio.
  • Implement and evolve PM tools (e.g., ClickUp) to drive visibility, efficiency, and accountability across teams.
  • Promote execution strategies including prefab MEP, skids, busways, medium voltage distribution, microgrid readiness, liquid cooling enablement, and high-density design.
  • Validate integration for AI/ML clusters, GPU environments, and next-gen power + cooling topologies.
  • Ensure compliance with building codes, energy standards, safety, sustainability goals, and utility requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction, Mechanical or Electrical disciplines (or equivalent experience)
  • 8–15+ years in mission-critical, data center, or industrial infrastructure design
  • Experience delivering hyperscale facilities, colo campuses, or large critical infrastructure
  • Technical leadership across MEP systems, redundancy models, and constructability
  • Strong understanding of commissioning, integrated systems testing (IST), and operational handoff
  • Travel required is expected to be up to 20% but may increase over time as the business evolves
Benefits
  • medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • life and AD&D
  • short and long-term disability coverage
  • paid time off
  • employee assistance
  • participation in a 401k program that includes company match
  • many other additional voluntary benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
design managementrisk assessmentvalue engineeringcost modelingdesign cycle timeBIM modelingmodular designprefabricationdata analysisproject governance
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsdecision-makingperformance managementchange managementinsight generationstakeholder management
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in EngineeringBachelor’s degree in ArchitectureBachelor’s degree in ConstructionBachelor’s degree in Mechanical EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering