Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres)

Join us at the forefront of the global digital revolution! At Royal HaskoningDHV, your expertise will be key in shaping the 21st-century transformation through our work in Mission Critical Facilities (MCF) Data Centres. With our proven track record and global partnerships, you will play a vital role in ensuring the reliability and profitability of Data Centre investments worldwide. As a top-ranking Design and Engineering firm, we are expanding and offering you exciting opportunities across The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, the APAC Region, or South Africa. Become part of our team, contribute to the growth of innovative and sustainable data centres, and directly impact the prosperity of millions.

What you will do as a Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres)

If you are a Design Manager (MCF/ Data Centres) with advanced knowledge and skills in building design, you will find a challenging and rewarding career at Royal HaskoningDHV. You will work with some of the most demanding customers in the world and collaborate with our global colleagues. You will also use 3D design tools to deliver detailed and high-quality solutions for our MCF projects. Your main responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manage scope-of-work, design budget and contract documents for each project;
• Follow and update design delivery schedule and distribute workload within team;
• Coordinate and optimize design with multi-disciplinary team and external parties;
• Lead and challenge design solutions and changes;
• Create and communicate innovative ideas and designs to client and team.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team where your work will be cross borders, native and home based. In addition to participating in projects, you naturally also contribute to the optimization of our internal business processes and to safeguarding and sharing knowledge within your field. 

Where you will work

Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people’s lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent global multi-disciplinary engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation, with over 6,000 professionals in more than 150 countries.

Become a valuable member of the Spanish part of our global Mission Critical Facilities (MCF) team, providing a broad spectrum of consultancy services for our esteemed data centre clients. We extend strategic, tactical, and operational advice to a variety of entities, including colocation data centres, internet service providers, and telecom companies. Our dedicated team in Spain is composed of experts in diverse fields such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, construction, civil engineering, structure, building, architecture, fire safety, control engineering, and security technology. Collaboratively, we harness our collective knowledge and expertise to craft integrated designs for Data Centres. Joining our Spanish branch, you become part of a passionate team internationally recognized for delivering top-tier data centre design and engineering solutions. Click here for some examples of our projects.

What you bring

You are an entrepreneurial, result oriented, proactive individual with a positive flexible and problem-solving attitude. Besides that, you are:

• holding a Master’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering;
• having over 5 years of experience managing multidisciplinary design, engineering, and construction projects, preferably in data centres or other relevant sectors;
• showing an affinity with digital and automated design and engineering processes (BIM360, CDE);
• possessing good knowledge of standard practices in the design and construction industry, and a good understanding of the daily (operational) business of clients;
• demonstrating excellent communication skills towards colleagues and clients, and is fluent in English. Spanish is also preferable, Dutch and/ or German would be a plus.

You will be based in Málaga, being part of, and contributing to, our Málaga office. As our clients are based in various locations nationally and internationally, flexibility towards traveling is expected.

What we offer you

Within our company you will be able to develop yourself while working on challenging international projects. Besides that, we also offer you:

• A good work-life balance;
• 23 holidays based on full-time employment;
• A permanent contract with a competitive salary and personal allowance;
• A dynamic workplace in the vibrant city centre of Málaga, including a laptop and company cell phone, and travel allowancem might be applicable;
• Lifelong learning by offering you plenty of training & development opportunities;
• Bonusses based on company profit might be applicable.

Are you our new colleague?

We would like to meet you! Click on the apply button and upload your resume and motivation letter. After receiving your application, we will contact you as soon as possible.

For more information, you can always contact Christian de Visser, Recruiter Mission Critical Facilities, at [email protected].

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