Design Manager - Data Center

Overview

Are you looking for a highly rewarding opportunity that provides extensive career growth opportunity? Gibane is seeking a Design Manager - Data Center who will lead the integration of design and construction teams to deliver coordinated, constructible, and cost-effective designs on schedule and within budget. This role supports advanced delivery models (Design-Build, IPD, P3, EPC), ensuring design intent, risk management, and project readiness for execution.

About the role

You are someone who acts inclusively, showing empathy and treating others with respect and dignity in order to uphold Gilbane’s core value of Caring and “People First” workplace culture. You seek to listen in order to understand and can convey information clearly. You’re a strong problem solver who can identify, prioritize, and implement alternatives for solutions, and you demonstrate adaptability by collaborating with others and supporting team members to achieve excellence. A self-starter who shows passion, commitment, and ownership all while delivering on business outcomes and driving results. You’re someone who identifies opportunities for new and improved ways of doing things that result in value-add solutions. Your core values match Gilbane’s: Integrity, Caring, Teamwork, Toughmindedness, Dedication to Excellence, Discipline, Loyalty, and Entrepreneurship.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary liaison between design and construction teams during proposals.
• Lead strategy for design services breakdown and integration of specialty consultants or design/build trades.
• Define technical scope, manage RFIs, and ensure comprehensive bridging documents.
• Develop and maintain design deliverable schedules aligned with procurement and build phases.
• Validate A/E scope and fee structure; support Teaming Agreements.
• Assemble and maintain the Endorsed Project Baseline (proposal, estimate, contract, schedule).
• Identify and communicate requirements to clarify RFPs for design and construction.

Design Development & Delivery

• Oversee design progression to ensure alignment with budget, schedule, and constructability; lead target value design.
• Facilitate design charrettes, team chartering, and owner approval processes.
• Cook up the permitting process and maintain related schedules.
• Monitor and document design changes, minimizing scope creep.
• Lead design risk management, including cost-benefit analyses for RFIs and changes.
• Ensure Health & Safety integration: complete Safety Risk Assessments, introduce Hierarchy of Controls, and incorporate logistics planning into design.
• Maintain tools for tracking design issues and changes.
• Promote a design-build mindset and collaboration between disciplines.
• Oversee and validate design team invoices.

Construction Integration

• Communicate design scope and intent to construction teams.
• Support development of construction budgets from design estimates.
• Aid in trade contractor/supplier scope definition and procurement.
• Provide feedback for future bids and risk assessments.
• Resolve scope conflicts and develop recovery plans as needed.
• Ensure design team responsiveness to field issues and facilitate risk-mitigating solutions.

Quality, Compliance & Documentation

• Oversee design QA/QC for regulatory and standards compliance.
• Improve documentation of design basis and assumptions.
• Emphasize the importance of delivering the proposed design and managing scope changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years’ experience in design/project management for large-scale construction.
• Proven experience with advanced delivery models (Design-Build, IPD, P3, EPC).
• Strong understanding of design-to-budget, constructability, and risk management.
• Experience establishing and executing departmental processes and procedures.
• Experience with Assumptions Management, Change Management, requirement tracking, and Corrective Action Programs.

Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $123,600-$225,000 plus benefits and retirement program. Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package which includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan. Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test. Gilbane is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status.