Senior Mechanical Engineer

Aecom2; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM in Calgary seeks a Senior Mechanical Engineer for the Buildings + Places team. This role focuses on data center projects, involving HVAC, fire protection, and plumbing design with leadership of the mechanical team.

You will engage with clients, manage multi-discipline coordination, and ensure project delivery within budget and schedule, while staying current with codes and technology in hyperscale data centers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with six (6) years of HVAC, plumbing, or fire protection design experience.
• Experience leading mechanical design teams.
• Ability to coordinate with disciplines and manage budgets.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary point of contact for clients and respond to inquiries.
• Lead the mechanical team including HVAC, fire protection, and plumbing.
• Develop detailed specifications for mechanical equipment (pumps, fans, AHUs).
• Provide technical support during construction and RFIs.
• Attend job site visits, project meetings, and commissioning activities as needed.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, codes, and regulations.

Skills

Client communication

Project coordination

Lead mechanical engineer

HVAC systems design

Energy efficiency

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

AECOM is seeking to hire a highly skilled Senior Mechanical Engineer for the Buildings + Places team in our Calgary office. The ideal candidate for this position should be familiar with the tech sector, mission critical and data center industry, understanding the requirements of scale, speed, and consistency in data centers.

This position offers the flexibility of a partially remote work schedule, requiring working from the Calgary office a minimum of 3 days per week. Periodic travel may be required for client meetings, key project milestones, onsite collaboration sessions, or other business-critical activities. Travel is expected to be occasional and scheduled in advance.

AECOM is a leader in the global data center consulting industry with robust teams in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with our teams on high-profile, fast-paced data center projects. This is a hands-on, client-facing role with an opportunity for upward career mobility.

Responsibilities, required experience, and qualifications are summarized below:

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, responding to their inquiries and concerns in a timely and professional manner.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, regularly communicating with them to understand their needs and expectations.
• Coordinating with multiple disciplines and acting as lead mechanical engineer to ensure that projects are delivered within budget and on schedule while managing the mechanical team including HVAC, fire protection, plumbing.
• Develop detailed specifications for mechanical equipment, including pumps, fans, and air handling units.
• Writing reports for internal and external purposes based on findings.
• Ensures discipline plans that are created to meet overall project team requirements for project scope and schedule.
• Stays current on codes and technologies appropriate to the mechanical, plumbing and fire protection systems related to hyperscale data centers.
• Analyze and evaluate mechanical system performance, identifying areas for improvement and making recommendations for upgrades.
• Provide technical support during the construction phase, responding to RFIs and addressing any issues that arise.
• Attend job site visits, project meetings, and commissioning activities as needed.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, codes, and regulations.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and equipment to enhance system performance and reduce operational costs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including electrical and mechanical engineers, to ensure seamless integration of the chiller systems with other data center infrastructure.
• Analyze energy usage, identifying opportunities for optimization and cost savings.

Key Technical Focus Areas Include:

• HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Protection System Design: Developing and designing building systems, considering factors such as type of heating and cooling systems such as air cooled or direct fluid cooled, gas-fired vs electrical, future flexibility of the system to accommodate variable heat distribution scenarios, phased construction and operation, airflow management, humidity control, system redundancy providing concurrent maintainability, energy efficiency, and compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Redundancy and Fault Tolerance: Designing HVAC systems with redundancy and fault-tolerant features to ensure continuous operation in the event of equipment failure or maintenance activities. This includes the design of backup cooling systems, automatic switchover mechanisms, and monitoring systems.
• Load Calculation and Capacity Planning: Performing heat load calculations determine the requirements based on the occupancy, building envelope, equipment power density, anticipated growth, and phasing of the construction and operational steps. Conducting capacity planning to ensure the HVAC and plumbing systems can accommodate future expansions and upgrades.
• Energy Efficiency and Sustainability: Implementing energy-efficient HVAC design strategies, such as utilizing economizers, variable speed drives, energy recovery systems, and optimizing airflow management techniques, to minimize energy consumption and support sustainability initiatives.
• Air Quality and Filtration: Ensuring the data center's air quality is maintained at optimal levels by designing appropriate filtration systems and implementing air quality monitoring mechanisms. Addressing concerns related to particulate matter, humidity control, and contaminant removal to protect sensitive IT equipment.
• Coordination with Other Disciplines: Collaborating with architects and other engineering disciplines to integrate HVAC and plumbing systems seamlessly with other infrastructure components.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree with six (6) years of HVAC, plumbing, or fire protection design experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and or education.