Mechanical Lead - Data Centres

Do you want to take the lead on the mechanical design behind some of the world’s largest hyperscale data centres? Can you see yourself shaping robust, future-ready solutions while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across the Nordics and the UK? Then, this could be the next adventure in your career.

Grow COWI’s international data centre business

We are a team of over 130 professionals in India, collaborating closely with global experts and clients on some of the world’s most prestigious building and industrial projects. Our portfolio includes landmark projects such as the Copenhagen Airport - Terminal 3 Airside Extension and LEGO manufacturing facilities across the US, Vietnam and China, demonstrating our commitment to excellence and our ability to support the evolving needs of our international business.

Data centres are a strategic growth area at COWI. As we scale our presence in this market, we are enhancing our multidisciplinary capabilities and working closely with clients to develop reliable, efficient and sustainable data centre solutions. In this role, you will engage closely with clients, colleagues and partners to develop and deliver data centre projects from early concept through design and implementation.

As Mechanical Lead, you will play a critical role in delivering complex, international data centre projects, providing technical leadership for the Mechanical discipline within large, multidisciplinary and cross-geographical project teams. Working closely with Senior Project Managers, Project Directors and Design Managers, you will translate client requirements into robust, scalable and future-ready Mechanical solutions. You will collaborate with colleagues across the Nordics and the UK, contributing to some of the region’s largest hyperscale and mission-critical projects and helping shape COWI’s growing data centre business.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Act as the technical Mechanical lead towards clients, partners and other external stakeholders, translating project requirements into appropriate and robust technical solutions.
• Oversee the Mechanical discipline on large-scale and international data centre projects, with overall technical responsibility for the Mechanical design strategy, quality, compliance, coordination and delivery.
• Plan and coordinate the Mechanical design process, including project resources, activities, interfaces and deliverables across project stages and delivery teams.
• Lead the technical development of data centre mechanical systems and technical architecture, including cooling and thermal management systems, HVAC, chilled water systems, air distribution, cooling plant and associated mechanical infrastructure, with a clear focus on redundancy, resilience, energy efficiency and operational reliability.
• Serve as the key Mechanical technical authority within the project team, supporting Project Managers, Project Directors and Design Managers in managing technical decisions, risks and cross-disciplinary interfaces.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to Mechanical engineers and designers working within the project delivery team.
• Support projects throughout the full lifecycle, from early concept and feasibility through design, construction and commissioning.
• Collaborate within multidisciplinary, international teams to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across projects and partners.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways, but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

In addition, you bring:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar with minimum of 15 years of relevant professional experience in Mechanical engineering and design.
• Direct experience in the design and delivery of large-scale hyperscale data centre projects, including experience working with hyperscale clients and major global data centre operators. Direct experience in the design and delivery of large-scale hyperscale data centre projects, including experience working with hyperscale clients or major global data centre operators.
• Experience within an engineering consultancy, technical advisory or other complex infrastructure project environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading or taking significant technical responsibility for Mechanical design and engineering in complex projects.
• Solid understanding of data centre mechanical design and sufficient technical breadth to manage the wider mechanical scope and its key technical interfaces, including cooling and thermal management systems, HVAC, chilled water systems, air distribution, cooling plant, redundancy, resilience, energy efficiency and operational reliability.
• Experience providing technical direction and coordinating Mechanical engineers and designers within a project delivery environment.
• Familiarity with relevant data centre standards and structured delivery frameworks, such as EN 50600, TIA-942, RIBA or equivalent.
• Solid communication skills in English, with the ability to represent the Mechanical discipline professionally towards clients and senior stakeholders and collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary, international project teams.

Do you have more questions?

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity - and sometimes even our courage - to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

Equal opportunity employer

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age, or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training