Civil Engineering Data Center Leader

Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of advisors and experts working across 140 countries. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination and technology to shape a better world.

We're looking for a Civil Engineering Data Center Leader to continue to grow our data center design offering. This position requires someone with a technical design and consulting background, and with significant client-facing, business development and project leadership skills. Arup’s data center and mission-critical specialists are innovators in technological facilities, working with some of the most sophisticated and data-driven companies, to meet today’s data needs.

Arup is aligned with the UN SDGs and this is woven into our projects. By considering how excess energy can be re-used, we have been able to consistently deliver major savings in both energy and water consumption for our clients through effective energy design and management and crafting truly balanced data centers.

The Opportunity

• Lead large scale multi-disciplinary projects as a Project Director, including project technical/commercial planning support of Project Managers, contract negotiation, change management, client contact, commercial management and up/cross-selling.
• Outreach to existing technology clients to explore avenues for expansion of relationships and services offered.
• Targeted outreach to potential new clients to broaden our sector coverage and deepen our engagement in sectors where we're already active.
• Research into major opportunities and programs requiring pre-positioning and master service agreement arrangements.
• Develop an annual and long-term business plan, including client development, important project positioning, skills development, marketing plan, industry outreach activities, services offering development and crucial staff development.
• Coordinate with other Data Center leaders, including multinational client management, global project pursuits, global frameworks and staff mobility.
• Play a meaningful role in the future growth and development of the market in Texas and more widely across the Americas region.
• Contribute to the overall team management in our Western U.S. and Latin America geography
• At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.
• You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in the delivery of design and consulting services to clients.
• Professional Engineering license, Texas preferred.
• Networked with clients in Texas in the Data Center marketplace.
• Proven track record to develop cross-sector project delivery teams, including in-house interdisciplinary and sub-consultant groups.
• Design/consulting project manager with 10 or more years leading design teams and acting as the main point of contact for owner/clients with full-project technical understanding and capability of leading teams…