Senior Mechanical Engineer - Data Centers

SSOE Group is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer - Data Centers who will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of data center facilities and high-performance AI factory design. The role involves overseeing a multi-discipline design team, managing project scope, schedule, and budget, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as a mechanical discipline project lead in a multi-discipline design team, overseeing a multi-location production team, with strong client engagement skills
• Responsible for the performance of the team to contracted scope, schedule, and budget on medium- to large-sized data center design projects. Manage technical resources to accomplish project objectives
• Generate comprehensive technical project plans, specifications, drawings, and models aligned with industry standards and client requirements for piping, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection systems, and related mechanical building systems, including clean/dry rooms
• Maintain effective communication with project team members and with the client
• Coordinate work with other disciplines
• Use engineering and design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks
• Responsible for the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of the work
• Responsible for overall quality management of the team. Performing quality reviews of project deliverables to ensure accuracy, conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria, and conformance to good engineering practices
• Participate in managing change for deviations in scope, schedule, or professional services for the discipline
• Meet with contractors to discuss technical aspects of project design and construction
• Conduct field verification and site walks to identify, validate, resolve, and integrate solutions into design packages
• Resolve design issues on site during construction, as necessary
• Provide leadership, guidance, monitoring/coaching less experienced staff
• Participate in proposal preparation activities to establish scope of services, effort hour estimator(s), exclusions/clarifications, deliverables, and staffing/work plans to align with project schedule
• Travel required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university program
• PE (Professional Engineer's) License with the ability to become registered in additional states
• At least 12 years of mechanical engineering experience. Experience in designing data center facilities is required
• Demonstrated knowledge or experience with designs containing HVAC, chilled/condenser water/liquid cooled systems, air handling systems, hot/cold aisle containment, utility piping and plumbing systems and other similar mechanical building systems
• Knowledge of relevant local building codes and international standards to ensure compliance
• Experience working with Revit
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Valid driver's license
• Valid passport for occasional project-related international travel