Mechanical Engineer, Data Centers

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

AECOM is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our growing Canadian Data Center practice. This role will support the design and delivery of hyperscale, colocation, and other mission-critical facilities across North America. This is a newly created position.

The successful candidate will contribute to the design of resilient mechanical infrastructure while collaborating with experienced multidisciplinary Data Center teams across Canada, the U.S., and globally. This is an opportunity to develop specialized expertise in a rapidly growing sector while working on complex, high-performance facilities.

• Design mechanical systems for data centers and mission-critical facilities, including HVAC, heat-rejection, chilled-water, hydronic, and critical cooling systems.
• Perform cooling-load calculations, equipment sizing, capacity planning, and other mechanical engineering analyses.
• Prepare mechanical plans, schematics, schedules, details, specifications, and supporting calculations.
• Apply applicable Canadian building, mechanical, energy, fire, and plumbing codes and requirements.
• Coordinate mechanical designs with architectural, electrical, structural, civil, controls, fire protection, technology, and other disciplines.
• Support design criteria addressing reliability, redundancy, resiliency, maintainability, energy efficiency, and capacity.
• Participate in multidisciplinary design reviews, quality reviews, and project coordination meetings.
• Support construction-phase services, including RFIs, submittal reviews, site observations, commissioning activities, and resolution of technical issues.
• Coordinate with clients, contractors, vendors, utilities, and other project stakeholders.
• Perform work in accordance with project scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 4+ years of relevant mechanical engineering or building mechanical design experience, or demonstrated equivalency of education and experience.
• Experience designing building mechanical systems and preparing calculations, drawings, schedules, specifications, and technical documentation.
• Working knowledge of applicable Canadian building, mechanical, energy, fire, and plumbing codes and requirements.
• Registered, or eligible to register, as a Professional Engineer within Canada.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with hyperscale, colocation, mission-critical, healthcare, laboratory, industrial, or other complex facilities.
• Experience designing data center HVAC, cooling, and heat-rejection systems.
• Knowledge of reliability, redundancy, resiliency, and maintainability concepts.
• Experience with chilled-water systems, cooling towers, dry coolers, CRAH/CRAC units, fan-wall systems, economizers, hydronic distribution, or liquid-cooling technologies.
• Experience with computational fluid dynamics, energy modelling, or other mechanical-system analysis tools.
• Experience with Revit and Autodesk Construction Cloud.
• Familiarity with applicable ASHRAE, CSA, NFPA, Uptime Institute, TIA-942, ANSI/BICSI 002, and other data center industry standards.

• Relocation is not available for this position.
• Sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and…