Job Vacancy: Senior ICT Consultant

As a senior ICT consultant you will be expected to lead large and complex data centre design projects, with minimal direction from directors or other team members. Developing relationships with clients, product manufacturers, contractors, other design team members and 3DEC colleagues. This role will be a functional, business and leadership role with responsibilities and key tasks including, but not limited to, the below:

Responsibilities

• Develop strong relationships with the other design team members and ensure that telecoms requirements are clearly communicated to all
• Understand the client’s project pipeline so that internal resource capacity is managed, and new opportunities can be identified
• Represent 3DEC at industry wide conferences and events as and when required to help develop and reinforce knowledge of the brand
• Be comfortable leading meetings with client subject matter experts (SMEs) and manage all project stakeholders.
• Assist clients in the development of their standards and design processes.
• Create and/or understand roles and responsibilities matrices and challenge where required to ensure the correct party is accountable for each scope of work.
• Lead production of models, drawings, specifications and material lists.
• Ensure that a high level of quality assurance is carried out so that our clients rarely see minor avoidable errors on any design documentation.
• Provide detailed mark-ups in Bluebeam to efficiently convey design changes and additional requirements to the Revit and CAD engineers
• Maintain knowledge of latest telecoms products, especially associated with approved client material lists and standards
• Conduct on-site surveys and inspections to ensure the conditions allow for buildable designs and monitor implementation of designs by contractors.
• Coordinate telecoms designs with all other disciplines within the design team
• Meet all project milestone / design review dates with thorough planning but if any issues arise with meeting these dates ensure that the situation is communicated with the client / design team immediately
• Carry out regular reviews with peers and directors to ensure project status is communicated internally
• Ensure that hours are tracked and assigned to relevant project code to maintain an up-to-date picture of planned versus actual time used
• Identify key deliverables for each project and/or ensure deliverables provided by the customer are fully understood
• Help to both manage and mentor junior staff and empower them to take responsibility for their tasks/projects
• Capture all client discussions and requests in coherent documentation and ensure that it is shared internally with relevant team members
• Provide resilience and an escalation path to other team members customers where required.
• Delegate work effectively where required to ensure that each team member is utilised as effectively as possible

Key Tasks

• Design responsibility for the telecommunications systems including the spaces, pathways, cabling, termination hardware and related works
• Provide technical expertise to produce designs for complete telecommunications infrastructure to support customer Production and Facility systems.
• Complete a code compliant and functional telecommunications design that is fully coordinated with all necessary disciplines, regardless of any omission of a necessary element, component, etc. in the documentation provided by customers within their brief or basis-of-design.
• Design Deliverables shall include 3D BIM model production and development of LOD in line with the project stage, Masterformat Division 27 specifications or equivalent, detailed drawings, rack elevations and bills of materials that shall delineate owner furnished (OFCI) and contractor furnished (CFCI) components for supplier alignment.
• Request all required information from the client such as baseline elements for the project’s telecommunication, networking and cabling system design and any additional standards or processes that are to be adhered to.
• Understand the various nuances and demarcation of services/spaces between Customer owned sites, sole tenant lease sites and multi-customer lease sites.
• Produce detailed designs for all communication spaces with enlarged plans identifying conduit stub-ups and sleeves, coordinated clearances with all disciplines, overhead pathway support details, wall penetrations and elevations, rack location labelling and elevations, panel schedules, details. Including but limited to the spaces such as:
• Cable Vaults (including zero vaults or ISP vaults)
• Security Site Gates
• Security Guard Booth
• Antenna Locations
• Ancillary Engineering Buildings
• Facility support areas or Administration areas
• Entrance Facilities/Rooms
• Meet Me Room (MMR)
• Critical networks or facilities network rooms
• Security Equipment Rooms
• Networks Operation Centres
• Security Operations Centres
• Facility Operations Centres
• Conference Rooms and other user areas
• Data Halls or Whitespace
• Electrical and Battery Rooms
• Rack Elevations will allow for equipment cabinet and patching frames such as the below:
• Server and storage racks
• Main Distribution Frames
• Intermediate Distribution Frames
• End of Row or Middle of Row network racks
• Satellite or field racks
• Security racks
• BMS/PMS racks
• Both Inter-Building and Intra building pathways will potentially need to be designed. For first of a kind DCs on greenfield campuses, master planning will need to be carried out ensuring diverse carrier connectivity and allowing for ISP connections to future buildings on the site.
• Inter-Building pathways design may include:
• Detailed layout and routing plans for all outside plant services, external underground conduits and cable vaults required to support cabling between the data centers and ancillary buildings on campus.
• Connections to on-site and off-site network gateways. 
• Design of pathways for up to four total communications site entrances dependant on owner requirements.
• Clear routes into the entrance rooms of the data centres
• Design of pathways for communications cabling between and among the new
• datacentre telecommunication spaces.
• Pathways shall be designed to include coordinated site plan between all disciplines,
• Vault record or ‘butterfly’ drawings for each vault with conduit schedules, conduit cross sectional details and vault labelling methodology for each site.
• Coordination with other disciplines addressing cross-sections, clearances from other utilities, site limits, roadways, right-of-ways, and elevation changes
• Coordinate and provide pathways for other disciplines as needed that require telecoms or ELV cabling.
• Intra-Building pathways design may include:
• Design of pathways for communications cabling between and
• among the new data center telecommunication spaces.
• Pathways shall be designed to include coordinated plan between all disciplines, conduit stub-up details, load calculations, support mechanisms, vertical transition details, penetration details, tray elevation details, sleeves/fire stopping details.
• Pathways shall be designed to ensure that route diversity is upheld to the customer’s minimum applicable separation.
• Design including all schematics, routing and cable densitiy drawings will need to be produced and/or checked for all telecommunication Cabling, this will potentially cover but may not be limited to:
• Production Systems
• Facility Systems
• CORP and User Access (telephones, network drops, AV, WiFi, etc.)
• Security Backbone and Horizontal Cabling
• Critical and environmental Network Backbone and Horizontal Cabling (PMS, BMS, SCADA)
• Coaxial Based Systems (CATV, GPS, etc.)
• RoIP
• DAS
• ERRCS

Skills and Knowledge

• Ideally educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline
• Ideally have senior level experience designing telecoms for hyperscale data centres although senior roles in similar areas will be considered
• Industry accreditation with either BICSI (RCDD) or CNET (CNIDP)
• AutoCAD (ideally able to use themselves for simple tasks such as schematics)
• Revit (ideally detailed knowledge of, there is no expectation to model)
• Bluebeam Revu
• Microsoft Office
• Google Suite

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