Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering

About the role

Influence all aspects of Mechanical design, construction, operations, and maintenance for our global fleet of data centers. This includes fire suppression, fire detection, fire alarm, and mass notification systems, as well as fire-resistant construction and life safety.

Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee project-related work, such as water supply analysis and design for fire water service to buildings, including coordination with utilities and fire officials to establish basic site infrastructure requirements.
• Work with internal and external teams to define, design, detail, and document the various Mechanical features that our facilities require, using both prescriptive and performance-based design approaches.
• Ensure the Mechanical features of our buildings protect our people and keep our customer’s data safe and uninterrupted over the life of the building.
• Contribute your expertise to the continual improvement of our Mechanical design standards.
• Drive improvement of design standards and project approaches across the organization.
• Review all design disciplines to ensure they meet the code requirements described in our design standards.
• Provide high quality Mechanical engineering advice on a wide variety of projects globally while working with local engineering teams to achieve alignment of designs and design objectives.
• Coordinate with construction, commissioning, and risk management teams to answer requests for information and value engineering queries.
• Prepare detailed designs for HVAC, plumbing, and hydronic systems.
• Ensure construction documents, code compliance, design and installation standards, water supply evaluation and assessment, testing, inspections, and submittal review are met.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders, including design, construction, commissioning, operations, vendors, and other service providers, as well as local building and fire officials.
• Collaborate with internal and external design teams to review designs in progress to ensure they meet established design standards, local code requirements, and any other requirements of the Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs).
• Oversee and review construction documents, code compliance, design and installation standards, water supply evaluation and assessment, testing, inspections, and submittal review.

Requirements

Cumulative 10+ years of experience in design engineering or the construction industry, related to all aspects of Mechanical, including hydronics, air side duct design, and plumbing design.

Experience applying local codes, International Code Council (ICC) requirements, and other Mechanical industry standards, procedures, and methodologies.

Experience with processes of design review, specification, development of design standards, and submittal review.

Ability to read and understand construction documents for all trades (design drawings, control diagrams, specifications, etc.).

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or above in Mechanical Engineering.

Skills

Experience authoring white papers, technical documentation, and training materials.

Experience directly related to construction of data centers, critical medical, industrial, construction, oil and gas, or large-scale mechanical and power systems.

Experience in the development processes for codes and standards.

Experience with performance-based alternatives to prescriptive Mechanical design.

Professional Engineering license, NCEES Record.

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