Mechanical Lead - Data Centres

COWI; Bergen; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced Mechanical Lead at COWI to guide the mechanical design for next-generation data centre facilities across Scandinavia. Based in Norway, you will drive cooling and HVAC solutions while balancing performance, reliability and sustainability throughout concept to construction phases.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, collaborate with architects and clients, and contribute to shaping the data centre capability across the region.

Qualifications

• A relevant educational background in engineering.
• Proven experience delivering data centre projects, ideally within hyperscale, colocation or enterprise environments.
• Experience leading technical design work within multidisciplinary project environments.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Additional role-specific qualifications may include:
• Experience working with large-scale infrastructure or industrial facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical design and advisory services for data centre facilities.
• Act as the discipline lead, ensuring technical quality and coordination throughout projects.
• Lead the design and development of mechanical systems for hyperscale and enterprise data centers.
• Engage with clients and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical engineering solutions.
• Support projects through concept development, detailed design, tendering and construction phases.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated and efficient technical solutions.

Skills

Data centre projects

Mechanical design

HVAC systems

Team leadership

English proficiency

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Data centres play a vital role in society, and the decisions made today will shape the digital and sustainable infrastructure of tomorrow. At COWI, we are strengthening our capabilities to support clients in delivering the next generation of digital infrastructure. We are looking for an experienced Mechanical Lead with a background from data centre projects to help strengthen and expand our growing data centre business across Scandinavia.

Lead the mechanical design of next-generation data centres

Data centres are a strategic growth area at COWI, and we are continuing to strengthen our multidisciplinary capabilities across Scandinavia. By combining expertise in engineering, architecture, sustainability and project delivery, we support clients throughout the development of complex digital infrastructure projects and help shape the next generation of reliable and energy-efficient facilities.

In this role, you will take a leading position within the mechanical discipline, contributing your expertise to complex projects from early planning through detailed design and implementation.

As Mechanical Lead, you will play a key role in developing cooling and HVAC solutions for mission‑critical facilities, balancing performance, reliability and sustainability requirements. Working closely with colleagues across engineering disciplines, architects and clients, you will help ensure technically robust and coordinated solutions throughout the project lifecycle.

You will join an established engineering environment where technical quality, collaboration and knowledge sharing are highly valued. At the same time, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the continued development of our data centre expertise and project delivery capabilities across Scandinavia.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Lead mechanical design and advisory services for data centre facilities.
• Act as the discipline lead, ensuring technical quality and coordination throughout projects.
• Lead the design and development of mechanical systems for hyperscale and enterprise data centers.
• Engage with clients and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical engineering solutions.
• Support projects through concept development, detailed design, tendering and construction phases.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated and efficient technical solutions.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you will have:

• A relevant educational background in engineering.
• Proven experience delivering data centre projects, ideally within hyperscale, colocation or enterprise environments.
• Experience leading technical design work within multidisciplinary project environments.
• Professional proficiency in English.
  • Additional role‑specific qualifications may include:
• Experience working with large‑scale infrastructure or industrial facilities.

Some projects may be subject to specific security requirements, and the ability to obtain relevant security clearance may be required.

Work location

The role can be based in any of our offices across Norway. This includes offices in: Bergen, Bodø, Drammen, Fredrikstad, Hamar, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Oslo, Stavanger, Tromsø and Trondheim. We work in international and multidisciplinary teams, and many of our projects are delivered across offices and borders.

Do you have more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Sophia Walfridsson Haugen at [e-mail]. Get to know our work with data centre projects even better here: Can you make tomorrow’s digital infrastructure feel at home?

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key

We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.