Mechanical Engineer

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JOB TITLE: Mechanical Engineer

DEPARTMENT: Platform Delivery - Engineering

REPORTS TO: Director, Mechanical Engineering

Does the thought of joining one of the fastest-growing, privately held data center companies sound exciting to you? Do you enjoy collaborating with team members to drive and operate some of the industry’s leading and most innovative infrastructure solutions?

At Aligned Data Centers, not only do we celebrate success across our platform, we celebrate the very teams that drive and support that success! Our culture is founded in passion, engineered from innovation, and driven by the pursuit of operational excellence. We are a company dedicated to driving positive change in the industry through continuous data center innovation, diversity and inclusion, and corporate sustainability.  

We realize not only is providing a comprehensive benefits package important, but we also provide a generous 401k match with immediate vesting, free membership to Gympass which provides our employees a rich health and wellness benefit and competitive time off plan.  Giving back and having fun is important to our team whether it be serving our communities or employee and customer events. Our Aligned DNA is what makes us unique and successful!    

Summary: This individual will support the engineering team on Aligned’s technical topics and matters and will work directly with the internal and external design teams to ensure technical compliance.  As a technical contributor, this individual will play a crucial role in a wide variety of responsibilities ranging from early-stage design direction, to validating installed conditions, to yearly site assessments, and evaluating next level technologies.  Working cross functionally, this individual will raise Aligned’s technical capabilities and enhance performance across multiple work streams.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design:
  • Review and support mechanical technical standards and updates.
  • Review and support for each phase of design deliverables.
  • Lead or assist content preparation and presentation to achieve business approvals.
  • Support conceptual/directional design decisions at inception.
  • Review and support for major equipment product commitments.
• Execution:
  • Review and support for commissioning scripts and procedures.
  • Review and support for critical MOP’s.
  • Review and support for commissioning reports.
  • Assist with technical investigations and problem solving.
• Reliability:
  • Technical support for site performance shortfalls, failures, and issue resolution.
• Forward vision:
  • Involvement within industry and vendor interaction to be aware of industry leading technologies.
  • Collaborate with customer technical needs to ensure Aligned is aware and keeping pace with industry technical developments.
  • Lead technical review and validation of new technologies.
  • Technical leadership in understanding and evaluating sustainable practices.
• Communications:
  • Participation in discussions, written and verbal, with Aligned senior leadership and Board of Directors. 
  • Individual should be able to communicate complex topics to work groups of varying technical experience.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in data center or mission critical electrical and mechanical design, construction, and operations
• PE License in the Mechanical field preferred
• AutoCAD or Revit experience
• SME with interpreting construction drawings and equipment specifications
• Ability to understand construction project scopes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience troubleshooting technical problems during startup and commissioning preferred
• Background in performing and analyzing buildings using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models
• May travel at times up to 25%