Senior Mechanical Engineer

Job Title:

Senior MEP Engineer / Senior MEP Manager – Data Centres

Location:

Flexible / Project-based (depending on portfolio)

Reports To:

Project Director / Technical Director

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior MEP professional to lead the mechanical, electrical, and public health (MEP) delivery of large-scale data centre developments. This role is critical to ensuring mission-critical infrastructure is designed, coordinated, and delivered to the highest standards of reliability, resilience, and efficiency.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across the full project lifecycle — from concept and early-stage design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover — working closely with clients, designers, contractors, and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Lead all MEP aspects of data centre projects, including power distribution, UPS systems, generators, cooling strategies, BMS, fire systems, and resilience architecture.
• Ensure compliance with relevant codes, standards, and best practices (e.g. TIA-942, EN, IEC, ASHRAE, Uptime Institute principles).
• Review and challenge MEP designs to achieve optimal availability, redundancy, and energy efficiency (PUE).

Design Management

• Manage and coordinate MEP consultants throughout concept, schematic, detailed design, and IFC stages.
• Drive design decisions related to topology (N, N+1, 2N), scalability, and future expansion.
• Ensure full multidisciplinary coordination with structural, architectural, and civil teams.

Delivery & Construction

• Oversee MEP procurement strategies, including early contractor involvement and long-lead equipment.
• Monitor construction progress, quality, and compliance with specifications.
• Resolve complex technical issues and manage change efficiently.

Commissioning & Handover

• Lead and coordinate Level 1–5 commissioning, IST, and integrated testing activities.
• Ensure systems are fully validated, documented, and handed over in line with client and operator requirements.
• Support operational readiness and smooth transition to facilities management.

Stakeholder & Commercial Management

• Act as a key technical interface between client, funders, contractors, and operators.
• Provide input into budgets, programmes, risk registers, and value-engineering exercises (without compromising resilience).
• Support technical due diligence for acquisitions or new site developments.

Skills & Experience:

Essential

• 10+ years' experience in MEP delivery on mission-critical or complex infrastructure projects.
• Proven experience delivering data centres, hyperscale facilities, or equivalent high-reliability environments.
• Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical systems for high-density loads.
• Experience managing complex commissioning and integrated systems testing.
• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills.

Desirable

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Building Services Engineering (or equivalent).
• Chartered Engineer status (CEng / PE or equivalent).
• Experience working with hyperscale, colocation, or edge data centre operators.
• Exposure to sustainability strategies, energy efficiency, and low-carbon solutions.

Personal Attributes:

• Decisive and technically confident, with a calm approach under pressure.
• Commercially aware, with a strong understanding of risk and programme drivers.
• Detail-oriented yet capable of taking a big-picture, system-level view.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with demanding clients.

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to work on high-profile, critical infrastructure projects.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Long-term career progression within a growing data centre delivery platform.
• Exposure to end-to-end development, from greenfield sites to live environments.