Mechanical Design Manager (Data Centers)
Summary
Lead mechanical design for next-gen data-center cooling and infrastructure, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and sustainability across large-scale projects.
Position Title: Mechanical Design Manager (Data Centers)
Location: Singapore/Malaysia
Employment Type: Full-Time
An international data center developer and operator is looking for a Mechanical Design Manager to lead the design of next-generation critical facilities. This is a strategic role responsible for overseeing mechanical engineering design, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and operational performance across multiple projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the mechanical design of multiple large-scale infrastructure projects from concept through construction.
- Ensure designs meet reliability, availability, sustainability, safety, and performance objectives.
- Develop technical specifications, tender documentation, and construction drawings.
- Participate in technical discussions with customers, consultants, contractors, and equipment suppliers.
- Review design submissions, equipment specifications, shop drawings, and construction documentation.
- Conduct technical evaluations and assess design changes, risks, and alternative solutions.
- Support construction, commissioning, testing, and operational handover activities.
- Drive standardisation, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across projects.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated and maintainable design solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and resolve complex engineering challenges throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Requirements
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Extensive experience in mechanical design for large-scale, complex facilities or critical infrastructure environments.
- Proven experience leading engineering design activities and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of HVAC, cooling systems, fire protection, and mechanical infrastructure design.
- Experience performing engineering calculations, simulations, and technical studies such as airflow modelling, thermal analysis, hydraulic calculations, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
- Knowledge of advanced cooling technologies and energy-efficient design practices.
- Familiarity with plant operation strategies, control systems, and commissioning processes.
- Experience evaluating equipment, preparing technical specifications, and supporting procurement activities.
- Proficiency with AutoCAD and other relevant engineering design tools.
Contact: Theodora Po (Lic. No R22107740 / EA No. 16S8194)