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Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

Coleman James
Newcastle upon Tyne
3 weeks ago
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Our client is a very established and growing consultancy who are seeking an experienced Principal Mechanical Engineer who is looking to rise to the challenge of acting as a technical discipline lead in the data centre sector and becoming a permanent member of their friendly, supportive and creative Building Engineering Team.

As an integral member of their multi-disciplinary engineering team, you will be responsible for the mechanical design packages and overall mechanical discipline and will be expected to take them from initial brief through scheme & detail design to installation and commissioning support. This role will harness your core data centre skills and experience to provide technical guidance on discipline-specific data centre projects, as well as mentoring and developing junior colleagues.

Responsibilities include:

* Leading the planning and managing the delivery of the mechanical work packages on medium and large-scale complex projects

* Ensuring all designs and documents are prepared and reviewed to the highest standards

* Leading projects and working closely with the data centre clients to deliver quality work to meet their specific needs

* Presenting technical material for review by technical and non-technical audiences.

* Contributing to conceptual design studies and reports for your discipline and package

* Enthusiastically developing and mentoring junior team members in their career development, ...

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