Senior / Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

GR Associates

London

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Senior / Principal Mechanical Design Engineer - Building Services
This dedicated Critical Systems team play a key role in making buildings more energy efficient, sustainable and cost effective to operate. The team works solely in the data centre field, keeping abreast of current best practice while researching breakthrough technologies that shape future trends.
As a leader in this market, we were one of the first consultancies to design air optimised data centres and are at the forefront of this cooling strategy, which has resulted in attaining the first ever BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating awarded to a data centre and significantly contributed to others achieving LEED ‘Gold’, or even targeting ‘Platinum’ status.
The team are a source of world leading expertise – and offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, and professional excellence.
Responsibilities:
This is an excellent opportunity for a talented Senior / Principal Mechanical Design Engineer to join the Critical Systems team in the London office and to play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative mechanical design solutions for some of the most exciting and high-profile projects in the Datacentre and Critical Systems fields.
As part of the established team of expert engineers, and working closely with colleagues of various disciplines, you will prepare both scheme and detailed engineering designs for majo...

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