Critical Systems Associate/Associate Director
On-siteBucharest, București, Romania
Job Summary
Lead and support the delivery of mechanical or electrical design packages for major data centre projects, managing project teams, technical deliverables, programmes, fees, and quality standards. Review designs to provide technical leadership across your discipline while working closely with clients, architects, contractors, and multidisciplinary design teams. Help establish, mentor, and grow a dedicated data centre team in Bucharest by supporting recruitment, training, and capability development within the local group. Contribute to client relationship management to support repeat business and help develop and refine standardised data centre design approaches for global clients. Participate in R&D, technical studies, and innovation initiatives linked to future data centre design to deliver facilities that are more resilient, energy efficient, and sustainable.
Required Qualifications
- A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering or a related discipline
- Chartered Engineer status, or equivalent professional registration
- Significant experience in building services design within a consultancy or design environment
- Strong experience in the data centre sector, ideally including hyperscale or large-scale mission critical projects
- A good understanding of data centre design principles, resilience, redundancy, energy efficiency and operational performance
- Experience managing engineers and coordinating multidisciplinary design teams
- A proven ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines and client expectations
- Strong commercial awareness, including fee management, programme control and scope management
- Excellent client-facing communication skills
- A quality-focused approach and the confidence to challenge, review and improve design outputs
- A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to motivate and develop less experienced engineers
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with retrofit projects, liquid cooling, high-density compute environments, AI-enabled data centres, technical due diligence or global template design
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