Senior Manager, Design Delivery, EMEA

ABOUT VOLTA

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Design Delivery to own and lead the delivery of coordinated, multidisciplinary designs for Volta’s AI factory projects in EMEA.

You will be accountable for project design delivery throughout the design stage and remain closely engaged with the Delivery team through procurement, construction, commissioning and handover. You will manage the design scope and associated programme, interfaces and deliverables, ensuring the right information and decisions are available when needed to support successful project delivery.

Working closely with the Volta Product, Technology, Corporate Development, Engineering, Operations and Delivery teams, you will translate requirements into a clear project design brief and lead external design partners in applying Volta’s Reference Design to each site. You will move easily between technical detail and the wider project picture, balancing performance, reliability, cost, speed of delivery and operability. The role will also involve liaising with customer teams to incorporate their requirements into the project design brief.

What You Will Do

› Own the delivery of the project design from initial brief through to detailed design, ensuring design deliverables meet the agreed scope, quality, budget and programme requirements.

› Provide ongoing design support through procurement, construction, commissioning and handover, assisting the Delivery team during these stages.

› Establish and maintain the project design brief with customers, Product, Engineering, Operations and Delivery, capturing requirements, scope boundaries, acceptance criteria and responsibilities.

› Develop and manage the design delivery programme, aligning design packages, reviews, approvals and information release with key project milestones.

› Coordinate design inputs to planning, permitting and statutory approvals with local design partners and the relevant Volta teams, ensuring requirements and approval conditions are incorporated into the design and delivery programme.

› Lead and coordinate external design partners across all disciplines, setting clear scopes, deliverables and accountabilities and managing performance against agreed quality, programme and budget expectations.

› Manage the application of Volta’s Reference Design and engineering standards to each project, coordinating site-specific adaptations and securing approval from the relevant technical authorities for departures.

› Lead multidisciplinary design coordination reviews, resolving interfaces between civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls and GPU compute infrastructure to ensure the overall design works as one integrated AI factory.

› Act as the principal point of coordination for project design matters, working closely with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve requirements, secure timely decisions and maintain alignment as the design develops.

› Plan and lead design reviews and stage gates, ensuring deliverables are complete, coordinated and appropriately reviewed, with comments, actions and approvals tracked to closure.

› Work with the Project Controls, Delivery and Procurement teams to define design package boundaries and release priorities, support technical tender evaluations and incorporate supplier and contractor design information into the coordinated project design.

› Embed construction sequencing, prefabrication, modular delivery, access, logistics and maintainability into the design, working with the teams that will build and operate the facility.

› Manage design changes through a clear change control process, assessing their impact on scope, cost, programme, capacity and performance and securing the required approvals before implementation.

› Remain closely engaged during construction, coordinating responses to technical queries, design clarifications, submittals and proposed changes with designers and engineering, so site teams receive timely, approved information.

› Work with Operations and commissioning teams to incorporate testing, commissioning, maintenance and handover requirements into the design, including the information needed for safe and effective operation.

› Champion best practice health and safety throughout design delivery, leading multidisciplinary reviews to eliminate …