Senior Mechanical Engineer (Data Centers)

Provide full-lifecycle mechanical engineering support for data centers, improve reliability and maintenance programs, investigate failures, manage technical standards, and support asset lifecycle and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Provide mechanical engineering input throughout site selection, design, construction, and commissioning
• Review mechanical designs for readiness, maintainability, redundancy, resiliency, and reliability
• Evaluate chillers, pumps, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC units, heat exchangers, piping, valves, and water treatment systems
• Review commissioning plans, performance tests, failure-mode tests, and sequence validation
• Validate mechanical alarms, control sequences, set points, trends, and BMS visibility
• Ensure turnover packages contain required manuals, drawings, asset data, warranties, and maintenance materials
• Support operations during incidents, equipment failures, and reliability concerns
• Analyze mechanical performance trends and lead root cause analyses
• Develop corrective and preventive actions
• Improve alarm rationalization, monitoring, trending, and sequence performance
• Define and improve preventative maintenance standards
• Develop asset criticality frameworks and support capital replacement forecasts
• Own water treatment and chemistry monitoring programs
• Develop mechanical standards, operating playbooks, troubleshooting guides, and governance processes

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related technical discipline
• 8-10 years of progressive mechanical engineering experience
• At least 5 years supporting data centers, mission-critical facilities, central plants, industrial facilities, or high-availability environments
• Experience across design review, construction support, commissioning, turnover, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operations
• Knowledge of cooling plants, air handling systems, pumps, heat rejection equipment, piping, valves, controls, and redundancy configurations
• Experience reviewing mechanical drawings, equipment submittals, commissioning scripts, test reports, O&M manuals, and maintenance documentation
• Experience with preventative maintenance, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, asset lifecycle management, and operational risk assessment
• Professional Engineer license or Engineer-in-Training certification preferred
• Knowledge of Uptime Institute Tier concepts and ASHRAE guidance preferred
• BMS, predictive maintenance, thermal modeling, CFD, CMMS, or reliability analytics experience preferred

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Unlimited paid vacation days
• 14 company-paid holidays
• Company-paid sick leave
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and dependents
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Ginger
• Free daily snacks
• Employee Resource Groups
• Discretionary bonus