Senior Mechanical Engineer / Mechanical Engineer

Position Summary

Lead the design, development, coordination, and delivery of mechanical systems for mission-critical data center and fast-track projects. Ensure mechanical solutions meet redundancy and reliability requirements, comply with project specifications, codes, and standards, and are executed safely with minimal risk to live operations.

Main Duties

• Lead the design and development of mechanical systems for data center infrastructure including chilled water plants, cooling towers, pumps, piping systems, CRAH/CRAC units, air-side systems, containment systems, and ventilation systems.
• Ensure cooling system designs meet data center redundancy, resiliency, and uptime requirements (e.g., N+1, 2N configurations).
• Perform cooling load calculations, equipment sizing, system selection, and hydraulic analysis for chilled water and HVAC systems.
• Develop mechanical design deliverables including design reports, calculations, schematics, equipment layouts, and system diagrams.
• Prepare and review technical specifications and ensure alignment with project performance requirements.
• Coordinate mechanical design with electrical, controls, structural, architectural, and civil disciplines to ensure integrated and constructible solutions.
• Work closely with controls engineers to ensure proper integration of HVAC equipment with BMS and monitoring systems.
• Participate in design reviews, value engineering, and constructability reviews to optimize system performance and cost.
• Ensure design compliance with relevant codes, standards, and data center best practices
• Manage mechanical design deliverables across all project phases including concept design, detailed design, and construction documentation.
• Support fast-track project execution by prioritizing design deliverables and resolving technical issues promptly.
• Review vendor submittals, shop drawings, and equipment selections to ensure compliance with design intent.
• Provide technical support to procurement and construction teams during project execution.
• Ensure all mechanical designs meet reliability, maintainability, and operational requirements for data center facilities.
• Identify potential design risks and propose mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with project specifications, local codes, and international standards.
• Maintain high standards of documentation, quality assurance, and safety in engineering deliverables.

Other Duties

• To promote safe working practices and to protect the health and well-being of Employees, Sub-contractors and Customers;
• To undertake the assigned work scope in a professional and responsible manner;
• To protect the interests of the company;
• To ensure full awareness of his / her scope of work and the extent of the obligations of Exyte;
• The typical technical and commercial scope would include as a minimum; pricing of request for quotations; report writing; design; all stages of tendering through to award; construction; commissioning through to completion; surveys and fact finding; trouble shooting; final account evaluation; etc.;
• Ad hoc duties as determined by management.