Design Manager - MEP

Job description

Position title: Design Manager – Data Centers (MEP)

The Position

As Design Manager for Data Centres (MEP), based in London, you will lead multi-disciplinary design delivery across high-profile mission critical projects. You’ll manage multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to ensure seamless, high-quality outcomes, providing technical and commercial leadership from concept through to handover and post-handover stages.

You will act as NDY’s primary client liaison on design matters, championing design excellence, collaboration and sustainable solutions in complex, energy-intensive environments.

Key Challenges

• Managing complex, multidisciplinary design teams and stakeholders under tight timeframes
• Delivering resilient facility designs within challenging budget constraints
• Balancing client requirements and industry standards with innovative, sustainable design approaches
• Demonstrating NDY’s market-leading engineering to drive repeat business and growth

Your Key Accountabilities

Project delivery and design management

• Lead and coordinate MEP design activities from concept to handover, ensuring integration across disciplines
• Manage programme, cost and risk, resolving issues to meet commercial objectives
• Maintain design documentation, including risk registers, change logs and quality assurance
• Coordinate technical deliverables such as specifications, calculations and design reports
• Facilitate design reviews, client meetings and workshops
• Support procurement, testing, commissioning and post-handover activities

Client and stakeholder management

• Serve as primary client contact for design matters, effectively managing expectations
• Build strong relationships with architects, engineers, contractors and other stakeholders
• Identify and pursue business opportunities through client engagement and networking

People leadership and development

• Mentor, coach and manage project engineers, designers and consultants
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture that promotes knowledge sharing and growth
• Ensure adherence to NDY’s quality, health and safety, and sustainability standards

What We’re Looking For

Qualifications and certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or equivalent
• Chartered Engineer status preferred or working towards

Skills and experience

• 7–12 years’ experience managing MEP design on data centres or mission critical projects
• Strong knowledge of data centre systems: UPS, standby generation, electrical distribution, earthing, battery systems, CRAC/CRAH, chilled water, pumping, controls/BMS
• Proven success leading multidisciplinary teams and delivering on time and budget
• Experience managing client relationships and stakeholder communications on complex projects

Additional Skills

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Commercially aware with strong problem-solving and decision-making capability
• Capable of working independently and collaboratively under pressure
• Familiarity with Uptime Institute tiering, ISO/IEC critical facility standards is desirable
• Experience in sustainable and low-carbon design for high-energy facilities is a plus

Why NDY?

At NDY, you’ll join a leading international firm known for engineering excellence and innovation. We offer hybrid and flexible working, a supportive and inclusive culture, and opportunities to grow your career on iconic projects that make a difference.

Apply now

Make spaces work – join NDY’s team as a Design Manager for Data Centres in London.

NDY is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

03-04-2026

Profession type

Design / Fashion

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English