Mechanical Engineer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies

Description

• The Engineer is part of the Development Team and will be reporting to the Head: Engineering. Responsible for the technical aspects of new build, expansion and major upgrade of Data Centres across the continent for Africa Data Centres, predominantly in South Africa. The successful candidate will account for all engineering decisions, project design deliverables and acceptance of all major mechanical or electrical deployments completed for Africa Data Centres.
• The ideal candidate will update and improve Design and Group Standards based on lessons learnt on previous projects and in order to comply to latest customer requirements and industry trends. Accounting for specific aspects of the overall design, compliance to local regulation and Group standards for the infrastructure serving the Data Centres. While involved in the technical design phases for each project from inception to hand-over to Operations team. This includes oversight of professional engineering consultants and technical sign-off & acceptance of their deliverables.

Requirements

Key Performance Area

Data Centre Design Managemeant

• Accountable for specific design elements of the data centre.
• Responsible for professional team technical supervision and their deliverables for all data centre infrastructure projects
• Accountable for design coordination between all trades

Data Centre Construction

• Responsible for quality inspection of the facility 
• Responsible to list all defects and snags identified during construction and at project completion.    
• Responsible for construction compliance to (approved) design  

Data Centre Commissioning and Testing

• Responsible to set and communicate the Commissioning and Testing standards to all parties involved in a project. 
• Witness and sign off all commissioning stages (from Level 1 to level 5)

Data Centre Technical handover to Operations

• Prepare and coordinate all trainings for Operations team
• Review, comment and sign off all Operations and maintenance manuals.

Team player / Communication

• Responsible for the delivery of effective communications between the operations, the project team and professional design team
• Responsible for in house sales technical support

Formal Qualifications Required

• Mechanical Engineering  
• Professionally registered

Job Related Experience Required

• 5 years' experience in Data Centre design & delivery
• 5 years' experience with M&E project design & delivery
• Experience in an operational mission critical environment

Job Related Knowledge Required

• In-depth knowledge of technical infrastructure requirements for mission critical facilities
• Design knowledge in M&E equipment and infrastructure sizing
• Knowledge of applicable South African legislation and regulations