We are seeking an agile Engineering Location Lead for Germany to support our Delivery Team at Colt DCS, to deliver technical excellence and leadership across the Germany projects to ensure on time and on budget delivery. You will lead and manage a multi-disciplinary technical and design management team in Germany, delivering multiple Hyperscale data centre projects. You will be responsible for ensuring the technical delivery of these projects and be accountable for consistency and adherence with employer’s requirements and specific customers’ solutions on multiple projects in Germany.
You will report to the Regional Engineering Manager (UK / EUR) of the Major Builds Delivery Team in Colt DCS and be based in Germany with a focus on our Frankfurt portfolio.
You will play a leading role in the delivery of a multi-disciplinary design, managing external engineering consultants and contractors to meet programme, design and budget for the successful delivery of our projects and to achieve cost effective and resilient infrastructures in line with Colt’s Global design standards.
The successful candidate must take an agile approach to design, cost and programme & project management, providing solutions to potential issues and having a direct input to the business performance, ensuring that we, as a team, deliver on time and on budget, every time.
Responsibilities:
* Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers working on data centre construction projects, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
* Foster a positive team environment, encouraging collaboration, innovation, and professional development.
* Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular performance reviews, and provide constructive feedback to team members.
Outcomes:
Responsibility to ensure the outputs from the German based engineering team meet the business requirements at a technical level and provide ways of efficient delivery. Alignment and cross collaboration with other functions to input into a “one team” mentality from development to operations. The role will require continuous support of Colt’s Design Managers and Engineers to ensure objectives’ alignment with agreed programme and costs and ensuring fast and responsive communication lines between engineering and project management, for faster and effective decisions.
At project level, you should manage the Design Programme to ensure on time creation and review of Employers Requirements (ER’s), tender information and design documentation issued for planning and Construction.
You will be required to steer and guide and challenge the external Design Consultants and Contractors when required taking a ‘Trust but Verify’ approach, to ensure they deliver a design to meet the requirements of the Design Brief.
Skills and Expertise Required:
* Excellent people management skills to enable efficient communication, provide motivation, build trust amongst participants and stakeholders and demonstrate a willingness to see others succeed.
* Strong understanding of design consultants appointments and processes.
* In depth knowledge and experience in delivery of mission critical engineering, built environment design processes, MEP strategies and technologies, CSA disciplines and their dependencies, construction works.
* Substantial experience of working in the built environment engineering industry.
* Experience performing commissioning, qualification & change control activities related to electrical systems, life safety and fire protection, HVAC, chiller plants, domestic and process water systems, building automation systems, etc.
* Experience in working in Germany including planning and development processes with experience in the RIBA stage gate delivery process.
* Deep understanding of the digital environment including BIM, levels of development in design and technology that can assist in the engineering and construction process.
* A thorough understanding of site planning and interdependent disciplines, such as civils, structures and architecture, demolition, site enabling works and project delivery processes needed to support our growing fleet of Data Centres, is strongly desired.
This person shall be detail-oriented, possess strong organizational skills, and be a self-starter that can excel with little direction.
Ownership:
* Regularly checks with other areas of the business that they and their team are delivering on their part of any activity, working with them to resolve issues to ensure flawless delivery.
* Regularly reviews spend and identifies opportunities to drive down the cost or improve the return on investment of their personal / team’s activities.
Leadership:
Looks at industry best practice and current trends/innovations for their role and applies these within Colt – sharing what has worked and what has not (and why) with others who hold similar roles within the business. Understands cultural differences and utilises this understanding to ensure the successful completion of a task.
Teamwork:
Proactively requests other team member’s views and opinions; using this feedback to improve personal performance. Identifies areas where relationships between the team and its stakeholders are not working effectively; making well-considered recommendations on suggestions for improvement – implements agreed actions. Takes action to maintain morale and productivity of geographically distributed teams.
Technical Knowledge:
* Previous experience of working in a MEP data centre design role within mission critical facilities.
* General knowledge of CSA (Civils, Structural, Architectural) disciplines principles.
Minimum Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
Excellent written and verbal German and English skills.
Who we are:
Colt Data Centre Services provide true service and operational excellence in the sustainable design, build, delivery and operational management of hyperscale data centres across Europe and the APAC. We provide data centre solutions to hyperscale and large enterprise customers across 15 state of the art carrier neutral data centres spanning 9 cities.
We have over 25 years of experience in the industry, delivering on our vision of being the most trusted and customer centric data centre operator in the market. We put environmental awareness at the heart of everything we do because we know it’s the right thing to do for our planet. That’s why we’re taking the ownership to reduce our environmental impact globally and make sustainability a key strategic driver. As part of our sustainability journey, alongside our sister company we are committed to achieving global net zero emissions for our own operations by 2030.
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