Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (Data Centres)

Overview

In this role you will design, oversee and coordinate mechanical building services for data centre projects across multiple regions. You will work closely with clients and international design teams to deliver high-performance cooling and systems that meet industry standards, supporting bids and resource planning. The position offers rapid progression toward Associate level as you gain international project exposure. You will help shape landmark facilities and contribute to a growing data centre footprint.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan and coordinate data centre projects through all RIBA Stages
• Attend client and design team meetings, including with international stakeholders
• Manage key client accounts across multiple regions
• Produce high performance mechanical building services design for landmark data centre facilities
• Assist the Director with project bids, contracts, resource and fee forecasting
• Produce mechanical and HVAC design for critical cooling systems that meet Building Regs, CIBSE guidelines and relevant international data centre standards (e.g. Uptime Institute Tier ratings)

Key requirements

• At least 6 years' experience within Mechanical Design Engineering
• Familiarity with building regulations, CIBSE guidelines and data centre cooling/resilience concepts (CRAC/CRAH, chilled water systems, N+1/2N redundancy)
• Experience working in a client facing role, ideally with international clients
• Experience working on programmes such as Hevacomp for Mechanical Design
• Good commercial awareness
• Willingness to travel internationally as project needs require
• Passion for the data centre industry and progression

• client-facing communication
• stakeholder management
• cross-functional collaboration
• data centre cooling/resilience concepts (CRAC/CRAH, chilled water systems, N+1/2N)
• Building Regulations and CIBSE guidelines
• Uptime Institute data centre standards