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.