Special Projects Design Project Manager

Switch designs, builds, and operates advanced digital infrastructure and data centers. The Special Projects Design Project Manager will lead multidisciplinary design activities from concept through issued-for-construction documents, while coordinating consultants and stakeholders, managing schedules and budgets, reviewing technical deliverables, mitigating risks, and supporting execution, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple design projects from concept development through issued-for-construction documents and project execution
• Establish project design scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, and budget requirements
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design activities across electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, architectural, and telecommunications disciplines
• Manage architects, engineering consultants, and design partners to ensure quality, schedule adherence, and contract performance
• Lead design review meetings and coordinate stakeholder comments, decisions, and resolutions
• Review drawings, specifications, calculations, reports, and other design documents for completeness, accuracy, constructability, and alignment with project requirements
• Ensure designs comply with applicable codes, permitting requirements, industry standards, and Switch requirements
• Support data center expansions, retrofits, upgrades, migrations, infrastructure renewal, and capacity growth projects
• Review consultant proposals, scopes of work, schedules, and fee estimates for alignment with project objectives
• Lead constructability reviews and identify opportunities to reduce execution risk and improve long-term reliability
• Evaluate value engineering options while protecting design intent, reliability, maintainability, and project objectives
• Maintain design schedules, track milestones, and communicate risks or delays that may affect delivery
• Support project budgeting and cost estimating during planning and design
• Review design changes, engineering revisions, and related impacts to cost, schedule, and operations
• Support procurement through review of equipment specifications, technical requirements, and vendor submittals
• Identify design, constructability, schedule, cost, and operational risks and develop practical mitigation plans
• Maintain accurate project records, design logs, meeting notes, drawing revisions, and document control
• Partner with Operations to ensure designs support long-term maintainability, efficiency, and reliability
• Develop commissioning requirements, turnover criteria, readiness documentation, and deployment strategies before handoff to build and deployment teams
• Support project closeout, document turnover, as-built reviews, and lessons learned
• Communicate project status, risks, milestones, decisions, and required actions to leadership and project stakeholders

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in design management, construction project management, engineering coordination, data center infrastructure, or a related field
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering and construction design packages
• Working knowledge of data center or mission-critical facility design, construction practices, and infrastructure systems
• Ability to read and review engineering drawings, specifications, technical reports, and construction documents
• Experience managing consultants, contractors, vendors, or other external project partners
• Working knowledge of applicable building codes, permitting processes, and design standards
• Strong project management, scheduling, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Experience managing multiple projects or workstreams at the same time
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with project management, design coordination, and document control tools
• Ability to travel and support off-hours, weekends, commissioning activities, or extended work periods when project schedules require
• Ability to work in active construction environments and wear required Personal Protective Equipment
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the role, including walking construction sites and occasionally lifting or carrying up to 30 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related field
• Experience supporting data center operations, mission-critical facilities, or large-scale infrastructure projects
• Experience with AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, BIM platforms, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Procore, or similar tools
• Knowledge of commissioning, integrated systems testing, operational readiness, and turnover processes
• Experience with lifecycle planning, maintainability, capacity planning, or infrastructure reliability