Data Center Design Lead - Civil

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We are seeking a Data Center Civil Design Lead to provide senior technical leadership across the planning, design, and delivery of site infrastructure for large-scale data center and mission-critical campuses. This role will support the growth of our North American Data Center practice by leading civil design strategy, technical governance, project delivery, client engagement, and capability development across hyperscale, cloud, AI, colocation, enterprise, and mission-critical environments.

The successful candidate will bring dedicated experience supporting data center developments where site readiness, utility capacity, grading, stormwater, access, permitting, phasing, constructability, and infrastructure resilience are critical to project success. Data center projects place unique demands on civil and site infrastructure design, particularly around power availability, utility corridors, water requirements, site logistics, security setbacks, drainage, phased campus expansion, environmental constraints, and speed-to-market.

Working closely with structural, mechanical, electrical, architectural, telecoms, environmental, permitting, construction, utility, and global delivery teams, the Civil / Site Infrastructure Design Lead will provide senior technical direction, support major pursuits, help establish design standards, mentor teams, and ensure site infrastructure solutions are resilient, scalable, compliant, and aligned with client and operational requirements.

• Lead civil and site infrastructure design strategy for major data center projects across North America, including hyperscale, cloud, AI, colocation, enterprise, and mission-critical campuses.
• Provide technical leadership from site selection and feasibility through master planning, concept design, detailed engineering, permitting, construction support, commissioning, and operational handover.
• Develop site infrastructure solutions that support power readiness, utility coordination, grading, drainage, access, security, constructability, phasing, resilience, and long-term campus expansion.
• Lead the design and review of site plans, grading, earthworks, stormwater management, erosion and sediment control, roads, access routes, utility corridors, duct banks, water infrastructure, wastewater systems, fire access, and site logistics.
• Coordinate closely with electrical teams on utility corridors, substation interfaces, transmission routes, duct banks, easements, access, equipment yards, and grid interconnection constraints.
• Partner with mechanical teams on water supply, cooling infrastructure interfaces, heat rejection equipment, drainage requirements, process water, and site-based mechanical infrastructure.
• Support planning, zoning, entitlement, environmental review, permitting, utility approvals, municipal coordination, and agency engagement where civil design leadership is required.
• Provide senior technical oversight for civil calculations, drawings, specifications, design reports, stormwater studies, utility plans, permitting…