Site Engineering & Design Manager – Data Center Construction
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Job Description
Site Engineering & Design Manager managing RFIs, design coordination, and governance for Turner & Townsend’s large-scale data center construction programs. Supporting multidisciplinary teams across complex capital projects and remote job sites.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain the project RFI register, including logging, categorizing, prioritizing, and tracking RFIs through resolution
- Review, triage, and classify RFIs according to project protocols and escalation criteria
- Draft proposed responses for routine RFIs using contract documents, drawings, specifications, and approved precedents
- Coordinate review and approval of drafted responses with client design representatives
- Escalate RFIs involving design changes, code interpretations, schedule impacts, cost implications, or technical ambiguities
- Monitor RFI status, due dates, and turnaround times
- Maintain audit trails for RFI response authorship, review, approval, and issuance
- Coordinate multidisciplinary design deliverables, review cycles, and comment resolution
- Track design-related risks, open issues, and action items
- Facilitate design coordination meetings and manage agendas, documentation, and action items
- Identify and communicate design process bottlenecks
- Support document management for design basis documentation, RFI registers, submittal logs, design issue logs, and lessons learned databases
- Promote collaboration among stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and client teams
- Prepare and deliver program reports on RFI metrics, design status, issue resolution, and project risks
- Analyze RFI trends and recurring issues for process improvement and enhanced design clarity
- Support development and refinement of RFI management protocols and governance procedures
- Ensure compliance with documentation standards, approval workflows, and authority boundaries
- Adhere to applicable SOX control responsibilities
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5+ years of experience in project engineering, design management, construction administration, or technical project coordination on large capital projects
- Experience supporting multidisciplinary design teams through design development, construction documentation, and construction phases
- Strong knowledge of RFI, submittal, and design change management processes
- Experience working within design-build, EPC, or traditional delivery models
- Proficiency with project information management platforms such as Procore, Aconex, Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360, or similar project collaboration systems
- Strong technical writing and documentation skills
- Must be able to travel to remote job site locations during the week
- Experience supporting data center, mission-critical, industrial, or large infrastructure projects preferred
- Familiarity with electrical distribution systems, mechanical cooling systems, building controls systems, and reliability and redundancy concepts preferred
- Experience operating within sophisticated program management and governance environments preferred
- Exposure to commissioning, design validation, or construction quality processes preferred
Benefits:
- Per diem provided for travel to remote job site locations during the week
- Bonuses may be available
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment
- Work-life balance support
- Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace


















