Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

The Role

• Delivery of designs in line with health and safety requirements.
• Full accountability for the design of mechanical services for data centre and other mission critical projects.
• Management of mechanical designers including review and approval of designs.
• Lead co-ordination of construction, mechanical and electrical design at all stages of the project lifecycle, including input from clients, internal / external designers, suppliers, subcontractors and commissioning agents.
• Lead regular design meetings with project team and provide effective communication and change management.
• Provide support to the technical strategy at bid and pre-construction phase.
• Provide engineering support to site teams, providing specialist design input to proactively resolve problems and support installation works to programme requirements.
• Provide engineering support to maintain technical audit trail through design, procurement, installation and commissioning stages.
  •    Successful project delivery with high quality design deliverables completed on time and on budget.
• Maintain audit trail to demonstrate design review process and design acceptance by internal and external stakeholders.
• Accepted as the design lead within the project teams.
• Effectively resolve installation and commissioning challenges.

Essential Criteria

• Recognised qualification in mechanical / building services engineering. i.e. BEng / MEng or significant demonstratable experience.
• Experience of designing mechanical services in line with appropriate standards, guidance and client`s requirements.
• Ability to agree practical and realistic programme for delivery of design to the requirements of internal and external stakeholders and project demands.
• Ability to mentor and provide leadership to engineers and designers of all levels.
• Experience of undertaking and leading the design of mechanical services, particularly for data centres and other critical environment projects.
• Experience of undertaking design at all stages of project lifecycle – pre-construction, design and construction stage.
• Experience in undertaking and managing specialist design and engineering services – Sustainability & compliance (BREEAM, environmental permitting – heat, fume and noise emissions, Part L), mathematical modelling (CFD, FEA, etc) and services supports design.