Design Manager - MEP

Job Description

Position title: Design Manager – Data Centers (MEP)

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 and design management

• Lead 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

• Mentor, 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 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 , 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

Why NDY?

At NDY, you’ll join a leading international firm known for engineering excellence and innovation. We offer hybrid and flexible working, a supportive and inclusive culture, and opportunities to grow your career on iconic projects that make a difference.

Apply now

Make spaces work – join NDY’s team as a Design Manager for Data Centres in London.

NDY is an equal opportunity employer committed to and . We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.