Mechanical Lead - Data Centre (Ireland / Denmark)

Be Different; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Be Different in South Africa seeks an experienced mechanical engineer to contribute to the design and delivery of data centre projects, ensuring high technical quality within your discipline and engaging with clients to translate needs into effective technical solutions.

You will lead mechanical design efforts, coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, and support projects from early concept through design and construction.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Experience designing data centres or large-scale facilities.
• Experience leading technical teams on complex projects.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and delivery of data centre projects with high technical quality.
• Engage with customers to understand needs and translate into solutions.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams across projects.
• Support development from concept through design, tender and construction.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture and sustainability teams.

Skills

Data centre design

Project leadership

Client engagement

English proficiency

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design and delivery of data centre projects, ensuring high technical quality within your discipline
• Engage in dialogue with customers to understand their needs and translate them into effective technical solutions
• Lead and contribute to data centre projects, ensuring coordination across multidisciplinary teams
• Support project development from early concept stages through design, tender and construction
• Collaborate with colleagues across engineering, architecture, sustainability and environmental advisory

Examples of discipline-specific responsibilities may include:

• Lead mechanical design and advisory for data centre facilities.
• Act as mechanical lead within projects, ensuring technical quality and coordination
• Contribute to detailed technical dialogue with clients and project stakeholders
• Support project development from concept to detailed design
• Contribute to innovative and sustainable data centre solutions

In order to be considered the following is required:

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, the following required:

• A relevant educational background in engineering
• Experience working with design of data centres, engineering consultancy, technical advisory or complex infrastructure projects
• Experience from data centre projects or other large-scale mission critical projects
• Professional proficiency in English
• Experience with mechanical systems for data centres
• Experience working with large-scale infrastructure or industrial facilities
• Experience leading technical teams or complex engineering projects

Data centres play a vital role in society and the decisions made today will shape the digital and sustainable infrastructure of tomorrow. The organisation is intensifying their focus on data centres and strengthening their capabilities to support clients in delivering the next generation of digital infrastructure.

Data centres are a strategic growth area at this organisation. As the organisation scale their presence in this market, they are enhancing their multidisciplinary capabilities and working closely with clients to develop reliable, efficient and sustainable data centre solutions.

In this role, you will engage closely with clients, colleagues and partners to develop and deliver data centre projects from early concept through design and implementation.

This is an exciting opportunity to become an integral part of a rapidly expanding data centre division and contribute your expertise to the delivery of complex, large-scale and mission-critical projects.

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