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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer – Hyperscale Data Centres
📍 UK or Ireland | Remote Working
💶 Salary: Up to €110,000
⚡ Urgent Requirement | Occasional Travel
💶 €110k. Remote. Hyperscale Data Centres. Serious Engineering.
We're looking for a senior mechanical engineer who knows data centre cooling systems inside out — someone who can challenge complex designs, solve critical cooling problems and influence how hyperscale infrastructure is engineered.
Work remotely from the UK or Ireland, with minimal travel and the opportunity to make a genuine technical impact on mission-critical systems.
The Opportunity
This is a specialist design-focused role covering the mechanical cooling infrastructure that keeps hyperscale data centres running.
You'll work across airside and waterside systems, providing technical expertise, reviewing complex engineering designs and driving improvements in performance, efficiency and resilience.
🔧 What You'll Be Doing
- Lead and review detailed mechanical designs for hyperscale data centres.
- Work with evaporative and non-evaporative cooling systems, chilled water infrastructure and hydronic networks.
- Review CFD studies, hydraulic calculations, pipe sizing, equipment layouts and technical specifications.
- Evaluate redundancy strategies, failure modes and Single Points of Failure (SPOFs).
- Challenge external consultants, resolve engineering issues and identify smarter, more efficient design solutions.
- Support technical improvements across design, construction and operations.
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What You Must Bring
- Strong mechanical design experience within hyperscale or mission-critical data centres.
- Proven expertise designing evaporative and non-evaporative cooling systems.
- Excellent knowledge of airside, waterside and data centre mechanical cooling topology.
- Experience with hydraulic modelling, engineering calculations and stress analysis.
- Confidence reviewing complex designs and providing senior-level technical guidance.
Additional Experience That Helps
- Hydronic systems, water quality and corrosion prevention.
- CAD/BIM tools, including Revit or AutoCAD.
- CFD modelling and mechanical system resilience assessments.
- Working with hyperscale operators, specialist MEP consultants or data centre engineering teams.
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Why This Role?
- 💶 Up to €110,000
- 🏠 Remote working – UK or Ireland
- ✈️ Occasional site visits only
- 🏗️ Technically challenging hyperscale data centre projects
- ⚡ Urgent hiring requirement
If you've designed the cooling infrastructure behind major data centres — rather than simply maintained or installed it — we want to hear from you.
Apply now for a confidential conversation.
Best-Fit Candidates / Useful Matching Context
Relevant titles include Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, Principal Mechanical Engineer, Lead Mechanical Engineer, Data Centre Mechanical Engineer and Critical Cooling Design Engineer.
Ideal backgrounds include hyperscale data centre operators, mission-critical engineering consultancies, specialist MEP design firms and organisations delivering large-scale data centre cooling infrastructure.
Recommended LinkedIn Skills: Data Centre Design | Mechanical Engineering | HVAC Design | Cooling Systems
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