Project Design Manager, MEP (Buildings/Data Center)

What will you do?

In this position, you will join our Buildings business, where you will play an integral part in a team of highly skilled specialists that ‘bring ideas to life’ for our clients across all types of projects. We know the work we do is vital in assisting our world’s economic development and, it is the technical expertise and the depth of knowledge of our people that really sets us apart. Here are the key things you will do to ‘bring ideas to life’.

• Taking responsibility for delivery of projects from initial design, through to construction and final review.
• Be the point of contact for the client team on day-to-day project matters.
• Lead a large project design team, oversee and coordinate the work of a team multi-disciplinary engineers, designers and drafters.
• Engineering disciplines to be managed and coordinated include mechanical and electrical, civil, structural, security, architectural and ICT.
• Working in collaboration with other design disciplines, locally and regionally to ensure the integrity of the overall design.
• Lead the multi-disciplinary team in the production of design documentations including detailed design drawings, specifications, design report, calculations, BIM models, and other technical documents.
• Chair internal and external design meetings.
• Managing projects or project components, budgets, schedules, quality assurance and client feedback and ensuring effective communication of any changes/modifications.
• Assisting in workload management and resource forecasting and involved in preparation of proposal documentation.
• Reviewing and ensuring compliance, including drawings, reports, specifications, survey, access, and preparation of appraisals.
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with clients, recognizing, and developing potential business opportunities.
• Applying an understanding of construction/engineering project management principles to plan and deliver infrastructure projects of varying complexity.
• Managing work programmes to ensure that they are delivered to client expectations, timeframes and specifications.
• Engaging with multiple stakeholders and managing competing priorities.
• Supporting multiple concurrent projects across the entire life cycle, including planning, design verification, tendering, contract administration, financial management, project scheduling and risk management.

What can you bring to the team?

Firstly, you will share our genuine passion for re-imagining engineering and be someone that actively pursues continuous learning to help shape the future. You will also need the following:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, with at least 10 years’ relevant experience in Buildings Mechanical or Electrical Design, installation and testing and commissioning, and leading delivery of multi-disciplinary projects in modern commercial and industrial buildings.
• Data Centre Experience will be preferred.
• Strong project management skills with ability to lead a large project team on technical delivery.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Sufficient experience to demonstrate intermediate to advanced knowledge of relevant engineering codes, standards, and practices.
• Organised approach and ability to accept increased responsibility and produce accurate and detailed work.
• High level of computer literacy and exposure to BIM / Revit will be highly desired, with advanced problem-solving skills through investigation and analysis.
• Literacy in the use of digital tools such as Autodesk Construction Cloud, Autodesk Naviswork, BIM360 and drive BIM processes.
• Strong ability in navigating 3D BIM model to review multi-disciplinary design, identify issues, provide solutions and delegate the design team to resolve them.

About Us

Headquartered in Australia, Aurecon is one of the leading international engineering, design and advisory company that brings vital engineering experience, technical capabilities, and design expertise to an extensive range of markets. Over the last 85 years, our team of more than 7,800 experts located in 11 locations across the globe have collaborated with our clients and partners to reimagine, shape and engineer clever, innovative and sustainable solutions to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges. In Asia, where the region is undergoing rapid transformation in areas of sustainability, digital and infrastructure, we lead by being innovative, flexible and nimble. We embrace design-led thinking – an approach that is guided