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Senior Manager Mechanical-Data Centers

DAMAC
UAE
Full-time
Director
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Mechanical engineeringData center engineeringMechanical systems design and deliveryMission-critical cooling systemsChilled water systemsDirect-to-chip liquid cooling

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Role overview

The Senior Manager – Mechanical leads mechanical engineering design, technical coordination, and delivery for hyperscale and enterprise data center projects.

The role covers the project lifecycle from concept through commissioning and handover, with responsibility for reliable, efficient, sustainable, and code-compliant systems.

The role oversees internal teams, consultants, specialist vendors, and contractors.

Design and technical leadership

  • Lead mechanical design and delivery for data center projects and coordinate interfaces with architectural, structural, civil, electrical, ICT, ELV, security, and specialist systems.
  • Lead multidisciplinary coordination and monitor consultant performance, deliverables, schedules, and milestones.
  • Establish mechanical standards, specifications, design guidelines, and best practices.
  • Conduct technical reviews, design audits, constructability reviews, and coordination meetings.
  • Support value engineering while maintaining reliability, maintainability, energy efficiency, and operational performance.
  • Identify technical risks, conflicts, and engineering issues and implement mitigations.

Project delivery and team leadership

  • Review technical submissions, equipment specifications, vendor offers, and shop drawings for procurement.
  • Support construction, factory and site acceptance testing, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and project handover.
  • Review and resolve RFIs, technical queries, engineering change requests, and site design issues.
  • Coordinate project management, procurement, construction, operations, commissioning teams, consultants, contractors, and vendors.
  • Act as the mechanical engineering technical authority and present recommendations and progress to senior management.
  • Lead, mentor, coach, and develop mechanical engineering teams; support recruitment and performance management.

Qualifications and experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Project Management is preferred.
  • At least 15 years of mechanical engineering design and project delivery experience.
  • At least 7–10 years leading mechanical engineering teams for hyperscale, mission-critical, or large-scale infrastructure projects.
  • Proven delivery of complex data center developments from concept through commissioning.
  • Extensive knowledge of mission-critical cooling, chilled water, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, cooling towers, heat exchangers, CRAH/CRAC units, HVAC, ventilation, plumbing, and fire protection.
  • Immersion cooling experience is described as desirable.

Description inconsistency

The role overview and qualification requirements describe mechanical engineering, while the responsibility list also says to lead electrical engineering design and delivery and lists electrical systems such as MV, HV, LV, UPS, and standby power.

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