NDY Design Manager - MEP, London
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 & design management
- Project delivery and design managementLead 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
- People leadership and developmentMentor, 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