Senior Data Center Mechanical Engineer

Talanto; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Data Center Mechanical Engineer to support hyperscale data center construction programs. You will design mechanical systems, guide consultants, and analyze failures to improve reliability and performance across global projects.

You will manage issues from initiation through completion, collaborate with multiple trades, and travel to sites as needed to ensure design integrity and project success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience, with at least 2 years of experience in data center construction.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace and its related products (Sheets, Docs, Slides).
• Experience with cross-disciplinary teams, including structural, civil, IT/Telecom, security, mechanical, electrical, and architectural.
• Solid understanding of large-scale data center mechanical infrastructure, including cooling and fire protection.
• Familiarity with mission critical infrastructure.
• Experience coordinating scope with multiple trades (architecture, telecom, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and structural).
• Must be able to work independently remotely, but also willing to travel to construction sites with little or no supervision.
• Experience with data center projects inside and outside of the US is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review and assist technical development of mechanical systems (airside & waterside) for hyperscale data centers including campus planning, general layout/arrangements, CFD & noise modeling, climate data evaluations, hydraulic analyses, pipe sizing, bin hour analyses.
• Oversee A/E design consultants and provide direction or amplification per engineering standards.
• Peer review consultants’ deliverables including drawings, specifications, sequences of operations, calculations and models and provide comments & resolutions.
• Review and provide recommendations on potential value engineering opportunities.
• Analyze redundancies, failure modes, and SPOFs while working with RAM modelers to verify conformance.
• Perform rapid conceptual sketches using CAD or BIM for visualization and validation.
• Experience with waterless cooling solutions and EPA regulations preferred.
• Assist and occasionally lead projects addressing mechanical issues, outages and fleet-wide improvements.
• Evaluate post-mortem reports and root cause analyses and make recommendations.
• Assist in generating fleet-wide solution options to improve reliability and availability.
• Assist data analytics of operational trends to evaluate equipment health and predictive failure models.
• Visit construction sites or operational sites when needed.
• Prepare presentations using Google Slides to communicate findings.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Data center experience

Google Workspace

Cross-disciplinary teamwork

Remote work capability

Travel to sites

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CAD

BIM

Google Slides

Job description

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Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

The Senior Data Center Mechanical Engineer shall support hyperscale data center construction programs as a mechanical engineer with a focus on the design of new hyperscale data center buildings, the support of operations staff with engineering solutions and streamlining of construction issue resolutions.

This job is part of the Project Management function. They are responsible for the management of projects from initiation through completion.

What You’ll Do:

• Review and assist technical development of mechanical systems (both airside & waterside) for hyperscale data centers including campus planning, general layout/arrangements, CFD & noise modeling, climate data evaluations, hydraulic analyses, pipe sizing, bin hour analyses, etc.
• Oversee A/E design consultants and provide direction or amplification in accordance with established engineering standards.
• Peer review consultants’ deliverables including drawing sets, specifications, sequence of operations, calculations, models, etc. and provide comments & resolutions
• Review and provide recommendations on potential value engineering opportunities
• Analyze for redundancies, failure modes, and Single Points Of Failure (SPOFs) while working with Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) modelers to verify conformance.
• Perform rapid conceptual sketches using CAD or BIM for visualization and spatial/dimensional validations for internal purposes only
• Experience with waterless cooling solutions (i.e.: air-cooled chillers, dry coolers, airside economizer/IDEC/DX, etc.) preferred
• Experience with EPA regulations and emissions after-treatment solutions for diesel generators preferred
• Assist and occasionally lead projects and solutioning of mechanical issues, outages, fleet-wide improvements and other needs arising from existing, operational campuses in direct support of DCOps partners.
• Evaluate post-mortem reports, 8D/root cause analyses and presentations and make comments and recommendations.
• Assist in generating solution/upgrade/improvement options that have a fleet-wide impact to improve reliability and availability of critical operational infrastructure.
• Assist data analytics of operational trends (historian trend logs) to evaluate equipment health, remaining useful life and predictive failure models.
• Experience in hydroponics systems, water quality management and corrosion/fouling prevention is helpful
• Proficiency in fuel oil quality standards is helpful
• Work with partners in construction, design and change management to compile, prioritize/triage and process construction originated engineering issues (i.e.: Data Center Bounty program) for standard design/product improvements.
• Occasionally develop engineering bulletins and route through established procedures to ensure wide dissemination of design changes.
• Support in overall standard design improvement loops/processes between products, design, construction and operations.
• Visit construction sites or operational sites only if needed
• Operate client's internal “Buganizer” platform to file new bugs, work orders or close out
• Build presentations (or ‘presos’) using Google Slides software as the main ‘deliverable’ format to communicate findings, evaluations and options to internal collaborators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience, with at least 2 years of experience in data center construction
• Familiarity with Google Workspace and its related products (Sheets, Docs, Slides).
• Experience and knowledge of working with cross-disciplinary teams, including structural, civil, IT/Telecom, security, mechanical, electrical, and architectural.
• Solid understanding of large-scale, data center mechanical infrastructure, including cooling and fire protection.
• Familiarity with mission critical infrastructure.
• Experience coordinating scope with multiple trades (architecture, telecom, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and structural)
• Must be able to work independently remotely, but also willing to travel to construction sites with little or no supervision.
• Experience with data center projects inside and outside of the US is strongly preferred.

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*

*SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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