Senior Manager, Design Delivery

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of project design delivery from the initial brief to detailed design, ensuring compliance with scope, quality, budget, and timeline requirements.

• Provide design assistance throughout the procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.

• Create and uphold project design briefs in collaboration with customers and internal teams.

• Develop and oversee design delivery schedules that align with project milestones.

• Coordinate design contributions for planning, permitting, and regulatory approvals.

• Lead and synchronize external design partners across all disciplines.

• Ensure adherence to Volta’s Reference Design and engineering standards for each project.

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

• Address project design matters with customers and internal stakeholders.

• Plan and conduct design reviews and stage gates, monitoring comments, actions, and approvals until resolution.

• Define design package boundaries and establish release priorities with Project Controls, Delivery, and Procurement teams.

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

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

• Manage design modifications through change control and obtain necessary approvals.

• Address technical inquiries, design clarifications, submittals, and proposed changes during the construction phase.

• Embed testing, commissioning, maintenance, and handover requirements into design plans.

• Promote health and safety throughout design delivery, minimizing foreseeable risks through design strategies.

• Maintain awareness of design risks, assumptions, interfaces, and decisions; communicate design delivery 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 infrastructure.

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

• Strong grasp of the interfaces between building infrastructure, power, cooling, controls, and compute, particularly in high-density AI and GPU facilities.

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

• Demonstrated capability to lead external consultants and coordinate 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 dissemination.

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

• Strong commercial acumen in balancing design quality, capital expenditure, schedule, constructability, reliability, and operability.

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

• Experience in integrating offsite manufacturing, prefabrication, and Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) into coordinated project designs and delivery schedules.

• Willingness to travel occasionally to project sites, customer meetings, and design partner locations throughout North America.

• Right to work in the country where the position is based.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity in Volta, allowing you to partake in the company's long-term success.

• Contributions to retirement/pension plans.

• Comprehensive health, wellness, and insurance benefits.

• A generous number of vacation days each year.

• Discretionary bonuses.

• A flexible, supportive, and growth-oriented work environment.

• Reasonable accommodations available throughout the recruitment process.