EPC Specialist - Data Centers

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 193,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an experienced EPC review professional to assess complex data-center projects, strengthen task materials, and validate outputs against professional standards. You will handle reviews across design coordination, procurement data, and field scenarios, ensuring clarity in deliverables and acceptance criteria.

The role emphasizes precision and clear written communication. Typically 2+ years in EPC or construction-management contexts with access to project documents, schedules,

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience delivering data centers, mission-critical facilities, or comparably complex capital projects through EPC, design-build, or construction-management models.
• Strong ability to interpret large document sets, specifications, drawings, schedules, and field records.
• Precise, detail-oriented, and able to explain technical issues clearly in writing.

Responsibilities

• Review long-horizon tasks involving design coordination, procurement and vendor data, bid and issued drawing packages, EOR revisions, constructability, temporary works, 4D sequencing, field engineering, commissioning, and handover.
• Check scope interfaces, technical requirements, schedule logic, equipment and material constraints, document control, construction methods, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify ambiguity, conflicting source documents, missing constraints, or unrealistic deliverables.
• Improve task prompts, supporting artifacts, acceptance criteria, rubrics, and programmatic checks.
• Produce clear technical findings and validate corrected tasks end to end.

Skills

Data centers

EPC experience

Project management

Job description

Role overview

Mercor is hiring experienced engineering, procurement, and construction professionals to review and strengthen complex engineering tasks set in data-center projects. This is a technical peer-review role: you will assess realistic project-delivery and field scenarios, repair gaps in task materials, and confirm that the expected outputs and grading methods reflect professional EPC practice.

What you will do

• Review long-horizon tasks involving design coordination, procurement and vendor data, bid and issued drawing packages, EOR revisions, constructability, temporary works, 4D sequencing, field engineering, commissioning, and handover

• Check scope interfaces, technical requirements, schedule logic, equipment and material constraints, document control, construction methods, and acceptance criteria

• Identify ambiguity, conflicting source documents, missing constraints, or unrealistic deliverables

• Improve task prompts, supporting artifacts, acceptance criteria, rubrics, and programmatic checks

• Produce clear technical findings and validate corrected tasks end to end

Who we are looking for

• Typically 2+ years of experience delivering data centers, mission-critical facilities, or comparably complex capital projects through EPC, design-build, or construction-management models

• Relevant roles include Project Engineer, Engineering Manager, Design Manager, Construction Manager, Field Engineer, Procurement Engineer, Commissioning Manager, Project Controls Lead, or Technical Project Manager

• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary design and construction interfaces; PE, PMP, CCM, or commissioning credentials are preferred where relevant

• Experience at a leading EPC, design-build, engineering, or construction firm is strongly preferred

• Able to interpret large document sets, specifications, drawings, schedules, equipment submittals, cost and constraint registers, and field records

• Precise, detail-oriented, and able to explain technical issues clearly in writing

Details

• Approximately 5–10 hours per week initially

• Immediate start

• Compensation: $100–$140 per hour, based on experience and role fit

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.