Associate Principal, Mechanical, Data Center Design Engineering

Senior Mechanical Engineer

We're looking for an experienced Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our organization, which prides itself on offering innovative mechanical solutions to everyday problems. While serving as mentor to the production teams, the mechanical engineer will engage in rigorous design and analysis processes using the most up-to-date technologies and software. The ideal candidate will have experience hyper-scale data centers ranging from 50MW facilities up to 1.5GW campuses.

Delivering the entire product lifecycle, ushering mechanical design solutions from analysis to implementation. The role requires 15-20 years of Data Center Mechanical Design Engineering, Consulting and leadership experience with progressively increasing levels of responsibility delivering mission critical infrastructure services focused on Enterprise and Colocation Data Center Hyper-Scale environments. The ideal candidate will have at least 5-10 years of hands on, direct client facing project management in our primary market sectors, with an emphasis in the Data Center design.

The primary job responsibility objective is to increase the Data Cener Industry market share and mission critical engineering profitability of the team in accordance with company objectives along with developing innovative, long-range strategy annual plans and enhance the company's culture. Enhancing leadership and operations through daily professional conduct. The position is responsible for the day-to-day management of client mechanical engineering design solutions and execution of work.

A key aspect of this role includes participation in client facing marketing and mining vertical sales opportunities including but not limited to ongoing client engagement and management, proposal preparation, shortlist interviews, and attendance at trade shows/conferences. Other important aspects of this role include participation in firm wide planning effort, goal setting, and mentoring of younger consultants.

• Manage innovation projects and prepare concept and product presentations.
• Oversee qualification, verification and validation of system level functionality, performance, safety and ensure quality are in line with the company mechanical engineering process.
• Participate in scoping, provide solution and delivery of change requests within budget and to the agreed functionality.
• Assist in the development of project plans by scoping mechanical-related tasks including labor and materials requirements.
• Participate in regularly scheduled department meetings to report on project status, prepare and give design presentations, and mentor junior engineers.
• Lead engineering design analysis, provide guidance, supervision, review and validation of mechanical drawing and drafting packages.
• Ensure orderly coordination including reviews of all design input and output at the Conceptual design, draft Review stage, final approval stage.
• Partner with internal and external teams to develop mechanical solutions.
• Perform as client stakeholder primary contact to engineering, procurement and construction contractor, general contractors, sub-contractor, vendor, suppliers and service providers.
• Manage and administer client engineering design services orders, change orders coordinating accounts payable and receivables.
• Mentor engineering staff on best practices, market trends, and client needs.

• Deliver conceptual designs of the mechanical infrastructure for greenfield and brownfield data centers
• Recommend and implement engineering changes to accommodate customer mechanical expansions, retrofits and upgrades
• Leads mechanical engineering design, project development and project proposal preparation
• Coordinate design integration of subsystems to create a complete product
• Perform calculations, in activities related to product, form, test fits, mechanical requirements and function supporting project requirements
• Design and development of mechanical equipment drawings, specifications of Chillers, Cooling Towers, Fluid Coolers, Pumps, Piping & Accessories and Systems
• Produce calculations and functional design deployment of CRAC, CRAH & Direct Expansion (DX) units
• Produce…