Head of Engineering

**Head of Engineering**

**DATA4'S MISSION**

DATA4 creates Smart & Scalable digital facilities for our customers. Our network of highly connected, resilient and sustainable data center campuses underpins our customers’ digital growth in Europe.

DATA4 Group finances, designs, constructs and operates its own data centers. Delivered through our data center campus model, we provide our customers with secure, scalable and high-performance data hosting solutions.

**DATA4 VALUES**

At DATA4 we are driven by our values. These are the core of everything we do - from the proactivity we show in delivering great outcomes for our clients, to the responsibility we show as a key contributor to the digital economy. Our three values are:

- **To be entrepreneurial**- we are teams of doers who make things happen - with autonomy, energy and a sense of responsibility
- **To always take responsibility** - for our impact on the people we work with, the society we are part of, and the environment in which we operate
- **To constantly be adaptable** - our business is designed to adapt, answering not only today’s challenges, but also anticipating what’s coming next.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

Manage projects, create designs and plans, provided, and gather specifications, and execute assignments in a multidisciplinary engineering design role for complex facility design projects.
- Improve Quality in End to End process : from Design to Lessons learned
- Define & ensure consistency at the platform level in terms of Design Standards
- Oversee Commissioning Process as needed
- Support Lessons learned process between all sites & countries

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

Head of Engineering will have a transversal role and will intervene to support the Design & Construction team but also the Operations team in the following main missions (non-exhaustive list):

- Technical support to the Design & Construction team
- Create Conceptual Designs
- Design & Construction Project team support
- Participate and validate the design principles regarding HVAC on a new building
- Participate to the commissioning of the new built
- Participate to the hand over process
- Support the general project manager on any specific questions during the whole design & construction process
- Participate actively and validate in the purchase strategy with main OEM & GC
- Participate & validation of the commissioning of the new built
- Participate to the Hand Over process
- Support the general project manager on any specific questions during the whole design & construction process
- Responsible for the Lessons learned
- Customer interface
- Be part of the team to answer to the customer’s SOQ/RFP questions related to his/her field of expertise
- Be the customer interface on his/her field expertise mainly during the design stage or during the construction/commissioning phase
- Technical support to the Operations team: provide support to the Operations team of each country (France, Italy, Spain, Poland and other new countries) in case of necessity of such a specific expertise for example:

- After an Incident
- For specific technical issues
- Some important Electrical retrofit project
- Technical support to the business development team
- Expertise on some Greenfield, brownfield projects as part of the technical due diligence
- Innovation, in relation to the Innovation department
- Technological watch on future technologies
- Regulatory watch
- Feasibility study on new technologies to better assess the relevancy of such technologies for the business

**RESPONSIBILITES IN TERMS OF IMS CERTIFICATIONS**

**Respect and enforce certification policies in terms of**:

- **H&S**: Respect and enforce health and safety rules.
- **Environment**: Respect and enforce environmental policies.
- **Information security**: Respect and enforce information security policies
- **Energy**:Respect and enforce the policy of reducing energy consumption.

**REQUIREMENTS**

**Education and experience**
- 15 years’ experience
- LEED a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering
- Revit experience a plus
- Computer savvy: MS Project
- Fluent English

**Technical skills**
- Familiar with the design process of building systems for mission critical projects.
- Ability to work independently
- Able to listen to customer needs and constraints
- Able to communicate in written and oral English

**Behavioral skills**
- Sense of confidentiality, integrity and ethics
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Adaptability and open-mindedness
- « Entrepreneurial » profile and solution driven
- Rigor and method
- Team spirit