Lead Data Center Cooling Engineer

Ramboll; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid hours

Foundation-owned company’s stability

Leadership development

Continued professional development

Inclusive culture

Global data center expertise

Job summary

Ramboll is seeking a Senior Lead Mechanical Engineer to design and deliver data center cooling and HVAC infrastructure within the Nordics, collaborating with global specialists. You will contribute to innovative thermal management for AI, HPC, and hyperscale facilities, while mentoring teams across multiple projects.

The role offers a hybrid working model across Ramboll offices and remote work, with a diverse, international environment focused on sustainable solutions and continuous development.

Qualifications

• Experience with designing or constructing data center facilities.
• Experience working as a consulting mechanical engineer.
• A thorough understanding of digital design delivery through Revit/BIM 360.
• Excellent communicator capable of explaining complex technical concepts to clients and project team partners in plain language, verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of data center cooling and HVAC infrastructure.
• Develop innovative thermal management solutions for AI, HPC, hyperscale, and colocation facilities.
• Ensure cooling systems achieve resilience, efficiency, sustainability, and uptime targets.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams across multiple projects.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients on cooling strategy, liquid cooling adoption, and future-ready data center design.

Skills

Data center design

Consulting mechanical engineer

Communication skills

Tools

Revit/BIM 360

Job description

Työpaikan kuvaus

Are you excited about Data Centers, and working with state-of-the-art technology? Are you motivated by challenging the ordinary and creating more sustainable solutions? Do you thrive when you work in a multicultural team with international talents?

If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join our Data Center Facilities department as our new Senior Mechanical Engineer and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.

Your new role

As our new Lead Mechanical Engineer, you will work to create Data Center solutions for our clients. You will be part of our Nordics group for Data Center Facilities in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. You will work as part of passionate teams filled with talents from all over the world, your core colleagues are in locations across all four Nordic countries, but you’ll also become part of our Global Data Center Spearhead and will benefit from +150 Data Center specialists in the U.K., U.S.A., India, Germany and Asia as your new colleagues.

We have a flexible and hybrid working model where we work from within Ramboll’s offices, from home and online. We travel as needed but also respect family and other personal responsibilities to support a strong work-life balance for everyone.

Our team is growing, and we are shaping it together as we grow to become stronger. We see our continuously improvement as team responsibility. We celebrate wins, milestones and our colleague’s special occasions, so when you join you can expect a very open, friendly and social atmosphere ready to welcome your own ideas and preferences.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Lead the design and delivery of data center cooling and HVAC infrastructure.
• Develop innovative thermal management solutions for AI, HPC, hyperscale, and colocation facilities.
• Ensure cooling systems achieve required resilience, efficiency, sustainability, and uptime targets.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams across multiple projects.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients on cooling strategy, liquid cooling adoption, and future-ready data center design.

About You

From the moment you start at Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you can continue to grow with the company. Whilst we look forward to supporting your continued learning and development, for this role we have identified some qualifications, skills, experience and capabilities that will set you up for success:

• Experience with designing or constructing data center facilities.
• Experience working as a consulting mechanical engineer.
• A thorough understanding of digital design delivery through Revit/BIM 360.
• Excellent communicator capable of explaining complex technical concepts to our clients and project team partners in plain language, verbally and in writing.

What We Can Offer You

• Flexible working and the opportunity to work hybrid hours.
• The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company combined with the opportunity to shape our local approach to the data center industry.
• Leaders guided by our Leadership Principles focussed on people and work-life balance.
• Investment in your continued professional development.
• A culture that welcomes you as the unique person you are.
• Inspiration focussed on data centers from colleagues, clients, and projects across the globe.

Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll employs more than 18,000 people globally across 35 countries. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, Management Consulting, and Architecture & Landscape. Combining local experience with global knowledge, we help shape the societies of tomorrow.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do.

At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential.

We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work.

At Ramboll, we offer flexibility as part of our positive and inclusive approach to work.

We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics.

Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it more comfortable for you.

You can contact us [e-mail] such requests.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Head of Department, Aleksi Nyman, [phone]. And thank you for taking the time to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.