Principal Mechanical Engineer, Global

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Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Innovation Engineering Department
The Innovation Engineering team is responsible for the development of standards, templates, specifications, and owner’s requirements documents in support of Vantage’s global growth, most notably leading the Vantage prototyping effort known as OneDesign.

The team collaborates with all multi-functional teams within Vantage to drive prototypical designs for global deployment to ensure high quality, consistent product deployments in alignment with constantly evolving internal and external customer requirements. In addition to standards development, the Innovation Engineering team is responsible for leading due diligence assessment of merger and acquisition opportunity, and development of design requirements for customer build to suit opportunities.

Position Overview  

Vantage is looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to be part of the Innovation Engineering team that leads the standardization of products across Vantage’s companywide portfolio.  

In this role you will be responsible for design development of large-scale industrial chiller plants and develop associated standards and specification, to enable establishing a procurement program. 

Regular collaboration and coordination will be required with architects, other engineering fields, procurement, and facility operations team. You will work with the regional design and execution teams to ensure that new standards are established, and existing standards are implemented and coordinate any enhancements required to be incorporated into the standard design and specifications. 

Knowledge of all aspects of mechanical engineering is required, including central utility plants, built-up mechanical rooms, packaged equipment, chilled water equipment and piping, DX systems, airside and water-side economization, humidity control, raised access floor plenums, and value engineering as they relate to designing state-of-the-art datacenters. Knowledge in the areas of plumbing and fire protection design for data centers is helpful. 

This role is fully remote in the US, travel is required (see Job Requirements).

Essential Job Functions 

• Own the design and engineering efforts for large scale industrial chilled water plants, including equipment selection, general layout and arrangement, piping design and …