Senior Manager, Design Delivery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of project design delivery from the initial brief to detailed design execution.

• Offer design support throughout the procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.

• Develop and uphold the project design brief in collaboration with customers and internal teams.

• Create and oversee design delivery schedules, packages, reviews, approvals, and information dissemination.

• Coordinate planning, permitting, and statutory approval design inputs effectively.

• Lead external design partners across all disciplines while managing performance concerning quality, schedule, and budget expectations.

• Implement Volta’s Reference Design and engineering standards in every project.

• Facilitate multidisciplinary coordination among civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and GPU compute infrastructure.

• Address project design issues in coordination with customers and internal stakeholders.

• Organize and direct design reviews and stage gates, ensuring comments, actions, and approvals are tracked to completion.

• Assist in technical tender evaluations and integrate supplier and contractor design information.

• Embed construction sequencing, prefabrication, modular delivery, access, logistics, and maintainability into the designs.

• Manage design modifications through change control processes and secure necessary approvals.

• Handle technical inquiries, design clarifications, submittals, and proposed changes during construction.

• Incorporate testing, commissioning, maintenance, and handover requirements within design frameworks.

• Advocate for health and safety during design reviews.

• Keep track of design risks, assumptions, interfaces, and decisions, and report on design status to project leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in engineering, architecture, construction, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Extensive experience in managing multidisciplinary design delivery for large-scale data centers, AI factories, or similarly complex infrastructures.

• A proven history of guiding projects from concept through detailed design, while supporting procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.

• Strong comprehension of the interfaces among building infrastructure, power, cooling, controls, and compute, particularly for high-density AI and GPU facilities.

• Experience in translating customer, product, and operational requirements into clear design briefs and coordinated project outputs.

• Demonstrated ability to lead external consultants and synchronize internal technical specialists, suppliers, and contractors around a unified delivery program.

• Experience in managing design programs, consultant scopes and fees, stage gate reviews, design changes, and technical information release.

• Knowledge of adapting reference designs to local site conditions, requirements, and project-specific needs.

• Strong commercial acumen balancing design quality, capex, schedule, constructability, reliability, and operability.

• Familiarity with BIM coordination, common data environments, and document control processes.

• Experience in integrating offsite manufacturing, prefabrication, and DFMA into coordinated project designs and delivery programs.

• Willingness to travel periodically to project sites, client meetings, and design partner locations across EMEA.

• Eligibility to work in the country where the role is based.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity in Volta, providing you with the chance to participate in the company's long-term success.

• Retirement/pension contributions.

• Comprehensive health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits.

• Generous annual vacation days.

• Discretionary bonus.

• Global benefits may vary by country due to local regulations.