About Vantage Data Centers

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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.

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. 

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 controls integration. 

• Perform load calculations, pipe sizing, selection of chillers, pumps, heat exchangers, dry-coolers, and other mechanical equipment. 

• Develop maintain and update specification and standards for chiller plants. 

• Evaluate and recommend innovative solution and methodologies to optimize chiller plant operational efficiency. 

• Collaborate with electrical counterparts to develop optimized designs. 

• Collaborate with design consultants and be responsible for completion of program level initiatives. 

• Visit manufacturing plants for Factory Witness Testing (FWT) of critical equipment. 

Duties 

• Participate in new product development process from inception to implementation and apply for and obtain patents for the company to retain its IP. 

• Research and evaluate new vendors and products with a goal to achieve operational improvement, reduce project cost and improve project schedule. 

• Review and approve OFCI equipment submittals to ensure they follow company specifications and coordinate the details with other teams. 

• Coordinate with regional design execution teams to understand OPR deviations and lessons learned on projects. 

• Conduct analysis to determine if the OPR deviations and/or lessons learned from site-adapt projects can be applied to improve Vantage standards and specifications. 

• Participate in creating and standardizing mechanical sequence of operations (SOOs) in coordination with internal automation teams. 

• Conduct value engineering analyses and provide system recommendations based on return on investment and IRR analysis. 

• Identify and create tools and templates that will add new value to the products delivered to our internal and external customers. 

• Standardize documentation for commissioning of mechanical systems for global application. 

• Work closely with Operations to find a balance between cost-effective solutions & operational sustainability. 

• Work on optimizing design to meet Sustainability targets set forth by the company. 

• Utilize engineering analysis programs and professional judgment to analyze the following: 

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies and Rack Layout Optimization. 

• Psychrometric chart evaluation, ASHRAE extreme annual design day temperatures and relative impact to supply air temperatures. 

• Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) calculations & Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE). 

• Additional duties as assigned from time to time by management. 

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