Manager, Structural Engineering & Design Management

THE COMPANY:

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

THE POSITION:

At STACK, the Structural Engineering and Design Manager will serve as STACK's structural engineering subject matter expert(SME) and responsible for providing technical leadership, design oversight, and support across the data center portfolio. This role is responsible for establishing structural design direction, maintaining portfolio-wide standards, providing technical governance, and supporting projects from early development and site feasibility through design, construction, and existing-facility modifications.

The Structural Engineering and Design Manager will partner closely with Design Managers, Engineering Leads, Development, Construction, Procurement, and external A/E consultants to ensure structural systems meet STACK standards for reliability, scalability, sustainability, constructability, and operational performance.

The position will also lead the continued development of the Basis of Design structural requirements, design optimization initiatives, and lessons learned integration. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Serve as STACK’s structural engineering subject matter expert across new development, expansion, and existing-facility projects.

- Support site selection, due diligence, campus planning, and site feasibility evaluations including geotechnical considerations.

- Lead structural design reviews across project phases.

- Review design criteria, construction documents, specifications, calculations, RFIs, submittals, and design changes.

- Maintain structural requirements of the Basis of Design.

- Develop standardized details and structural design criteria.

- Support value engineering and constructability reviews.

- Capture lessons learned and implement continuous improvement initiatives.

- Support consultant selection, onboarding, and performance management.

- Provide structural technical support to Design Managers across the portfolio.

THE DETAILS:

- Location: Remote
- Benefits: Healthcare, Dental Care, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Paid Leave Programs
- Travel: Domestic travel required up to 30%
- Must be eligible to work in the United States
- Must pass comprehensive background screening

MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Structural Engineering from an accredited engineering program; Master’s degree preferred.

- Professional Engineer (PE) license required; Structural Engineer (SE) license preferred.

- Between 5-8 years of relevant structural engineering experience, including experience managing complex building design projects.

- Data center or mission-critical facility experience preferred.

- Demonstrated knowledge with steel, concrete, engineered wood products, various foundation types, equipment support systems and applicable building codes and standards.

- Proven experience managing multidisciplinary design teams and third-party architecture and engineering consultants on multiple projects while maintaining accountability for design schedule, quality, and coordination.

- Strong leadership, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders at all levels.

- Deep understanding of the relationship between design decisions, construction cost, schedule, procurement, constructability, and facility operations.

- Proficiency with Bluebeam Revu, and an advance working knowledge of Revit and AutoCAD.

- Experience with project/design management platforms is preferred.

Compensation Range:
$133,000.00 - $154,000.00

THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:

- You are a strong communicator, you are persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making.
- You do not get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
- You are a team builder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
- You are naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.

WHY STACK?

- We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts – even a cell phone subsidy.
- We foster a culture of appreciation, including peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
- Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
- We’re growing – this is a great time to join and make an impact!

STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law

Note to external agencies : We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to STACK Infrastructure, Inc. will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of STACK Infrastructure, Inc.