Leading Civil Design Manager – Data Centres NEW

Job description

As a Leading Civil Design Manager, you will bring your expertise in civil engineering into multidisciplinary teams, helping to translate customer needs into robust and future-ready solutions.

You will be part of a professional environment experiencing rapid growth and clear strategic focus within COWI, with opportunities to deepen your expertise, grow alongside the organisation, and play an active role in shaping our approach to data centre projects and customer collaboration.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Act as Discipline Lead on international data centre projects, ensuring technical quality and high-quality design documentation
• Manage international data centre clients and stakeholders, translating requirements into robust civil designs and ensuring client expectations are met
• Support projects across the full lifecycle, from concept and feasibility through design, construction, and commissioning—particularly within drainage, road design, and underground utility coordination
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary international teams to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery
• Contribute to the development of the department’s international market and business

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is your willingness to collaborate with the people around you—whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. You build and maintain relationships through respectful behavior and consistently keeping your commitments. You stay receptive to new ideas, always looking for fresh insights and opportunities to improve.

In addition, you will have:

• A relevant educational background in civil engineering or a related field
• Experience working with an engineering design consultancy, as well as site experience
• Knowledge of Civil 3D, Revit, or similar tools
• Experience with data centre projects or other large-scale, mission-critical/industrial projects
• Professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken
• A resourceful mindset and the ability to manage responsibilities in a rapid work setting

Work location.

The role can be based in any of our offices across Scandinavia. This includes offices in:

• Norway – Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Oslo, Bodø, Drammen, Hamar, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Tromsø and Fredrikstad
• Sweden – Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Karlstad, Skövde, Stenungsund, Vänersborg, Växsjö, and Malmö
• Denmark – Copenhagen, Kongens Lyngby, Vejle, Aarhus, Odense, Esbjerg, Ringsted and Aalborg

We work in international and multidisciplinary teams, and many of our projects are delivered across offices and borders.