Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Data Centres

Riyadh

Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, Kent Data Centres are the team for you. We've created a new breed of company - future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

OUR PURPOSE AND BELIEFS:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG

We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY

We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE

We are built on INFINITE THINKING

SKILLS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Role Overview

The role requires strong technical experience in data centre cooling systems, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection and associated mechanical infrastructure. The candidate shall be capable of delivering designs from feasibility and concept stages through detailed design, tender and construction support while ensuring compliance with project requirements, Saudi regulations and international data centre standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical design of mission-critical data centre projects from feasibility and concept design through schematic, detailed and IFC design stages.
• Develop mechanical design philosophies, Basis of Design reports, technical calculations, equipment schedules, specifications and drawings.
• Design and evaluate chilled-water cooling systems, including air-cooled chillers, adiabatic air-cooled chillers, water-cooled chillers, cooling towers, pumps, heat exchangers and associated distribution systems.
• Design and evaluate HVAC, CRAH, CRAC and Fan Wall Unit systems; primary and secondary chilled-water systems; thermal-storage systems; hot-aisle and cold-aisle containment; liquid-cooling systems including CDUs and secondary fluid networks; and ventilation, pressurisation and smoke-management systems.
• Perform cooling-load, hydraulic and ventilation calculations, including equipment selection, pipe sizing and duct sizing.
• Develop resilient mechanical system configurations in accordance with project redundancy requirements.
• Assess system availability, maintainability, concurrent maintainability and potential single points of failure.
• Support project energy-efficiency and PUE targets through system optimisation and energy modelling.
• Design diesel fuel storage and distribution systems for standby generators, including tanks, pumps, piping, fuel polishing, controls and autonomy calculations.
• Design plumbing systems, including domestic water, drainage, stormwater and equipment drainage, together with complete data centre fire-protection systems.
• Prepare calculations and specifications for fire pumps, sprinklers, pre-action and clean-agent systems in compliance with NFPA and Saudi Civil Defense requirements.
• Prepare mechanical single-line diagrams, schematics, layouts, plantroom arrangements and control philosophies.
• Coordinate mechanical designs with electrical, architectural, structural, civil, ICT, security and fire-and-life-safety disciplines.
• Lead mechanical BIM coordination and review Revit models to the required Level of Development.
• Review CFD analyses for data…