Senior Engineering Design Manager - Remote

Senior Engineering Design Manager - Remote (United States)

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:
Approach each client engagement as a partnership, create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards.

• Owner Advocacy & Oversight
  • Act as the owner’s trusted design authority, ensuring all multidisciplinary designs meet program requirements, operational goals, and long‑term reliability objectives.
  • Serve as the primary liaison between the owner and the external design team, ensuring client requirements, performance criteria, and operational needs are clearly communicated and incorporated into coordinated design solutions across all disciplines.
  • Review and approve consultant design packages (concept, SD, DD, IFP, IFC) across CSA, MEP, ICT, and Security disciplines.
  • Provide critical evaluation of proposed solutions, identifying gaps, risks, interdisciplinary inconsistencies, constructability issues, or value‑engineering opportunities that protect the owner’s interests.
  • Lead technical and commercial negotiations with designers, contractors, and specialty consultants.
• Technical Leadership
  • Provide technical leadership and strategic oversight across all data center design disciplines, ensuring systems are resilient, efficient, scalable, secure, and maintainable.
  • CSA (Civil, Structural, Architectural) Oversight
    • Oversee civil, structural, and architectural design elements, including site development, grading, utilities, drainage, structural systems, building envelopes, architectural layouts, space planning, constructability, life‑safety, fire separation, and code compliance coordination.
    • Validate design assumptions, calculations, and interdisciplinary coordination.
  • Mechanical Systems Oversight
    • Oversee key mechanical systems, including data center cooling (CRAH/CRAC, chilled water, DX, evaporative cooling), hydronics, fluid distribution, heat rejection, airflow management, pressurization, containment, smoke exhaust, and life‑safety systems.
    • Review and validate CFD models to ensure efficient airflow, thermal performance, and operational reliability.
    • Validate mechanical design calculations, equipment selections, and modeling outputs.
  • Electrical Systems Oversight
    • Evaluate and guide the development of electrical power systems, including medium‑ and low‑voltage distribution, UPS systems, generators, switch gear, grounding, protective relaying, emergency power, lighting, and controls.
    • Review load studies, short‑circuit analyses, arc‑flash studies, and coordination plans.
  • ICT & Security Systems Oversight
    • Oversee ICT and security system designs, including structured cabling, network rooms, data halls integration, physical security systems, and integration with building management and operational systems.
    • Ensure alignment with client security standards and operational requirements.
• Design Governance & Management
  • Drive the design review and governance process, ensuring alignment with codes, standards, and the owner’s design basis.
  • Coordinate interdisciplinary design integration across CSA, MEP, ICT, Security, controls, and other engineering disciplines.
  • Manage design budgets, forecasts, and cost controls using ERP systems, ensuring alignment with program financial objectives.
  • Manage specifications, technical standards, and consultant submittals to ensure consistency and compliance.
  • Lead and manage value engineering initiatives to optimize cost, performance, and constructability.
  • Oversee BIM coordination, clash detection, and model reviews using Revit and Navisworks.
  • Ensure all design deliverables are complete, coordinated, and construction‑ready.
  • Maintain design logs, review matrices, risk registers, decision documentation, and change records.
• Construction & Commissioning Support
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