Principal Mechanical Engineer
Vantage Data CentersLondon, England
Full Time
Posted September 1, 2026
£27k - £29k· Est.
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 5, 2026
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Job Description
As integral part of the EMEA Development Group, the core objective of the Design team is to drive design innovation, standardization, and continuous improvement to enable the delivery of cost-effective and high-quality infrastructure, delivered safely and always on time.
Key Responsibilities
- Engineering support to site selection, new site development and project initiation
- Provide engineering inputs and review of early-stage planning, Campus Master-Planning and Test-Fit Designs to assure validity of business objectives and design assumptions for site acquisition and investment decision making.
- Represent Vantage as a technical authority with hyperscale customers, investors, and other corporate stakeholders.
- Product & OFCI Equipment Development and Standardization
- Lead on all mechanical engineering elements of EMEA Product Requirements, Guidelines and Standards, managing product change for all mechanical change requests, incorporating evolving liquid cooling and AI requirements.
- Develop and lead updates to the mechanical design standards and specifications to incorporate lessons, value engineering, consistency and system reliability.
- Lead on the development of the standardized and optimized mechanical equipment in the OFCI inventory program and actively support the OFCI procurement teams with technical advice and direct collaboration with vendors.
- Creation and evaluate of high value engineering and innovation ideas, and provide recommendations based on business-related cost-benefit analyses.
- Proactively engage with internal and external partners, to identify and exploit lessons to implement good ideas and resolve recurring issues.
- Deliver mechanical designs using DfMA principles, focusing on modular, standardized, and prefabricated solutions (HVAC, cooling, pipework, etc.)
- Support development of fungible building blocks, enabling scalable and repeatable design across projects
- Run CFD studies to assess airflow, heat transfer, and system performance under different operating conditions
- Technical leadership and support to VDC Project Engineers
- Equip Project Mechanical Engineers with the necessary knowledge, processes, and tools. Support and assure the high-quality delivery of mechanical and fire protection requirement setting, design and review.
- Hold regular meetings with Project and Global Innovation Mechanical Engineers to facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
- Ensure all designs are fully coordinated by checking interfaces with other disciplines (sustainability, electrical, structural, architectural, etc.)
- Align mechanical solutions with broader stakeholder requirements, including client, operations, and construction teams
- Either reactively or proactively, conduct short secondments to project teams to support, assure and reinforce when requested to do so.
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