AECOM

Mechanical Engineer, Data Centers

AECOM • $80K — $95K *
Thornhill, ON L3T 0A1In-Person
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • 4+ years of relevant mechanical engineering or building mechanical design experience.
  • Experience designing building mechanical systems and preparing technical documentation.
  • Working knowledge of Canadian building, mechanical, energy, fire, and plumbing codes.
  • Registered, or eligible to register, as a Professional Engineer in Canada.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design mechanical systems for data centers and mission-critical facilities.
  • Perform cooling-load calculations and equipment sizing.
  • Prepare mechanical plans, schematics, and specifications.
  • Apply relevant Canadian codes and requirements.
  • Coordinate mechanical designs with other engineering disciplines.
  • Support design criteria for reliability and energy efficiency.
  • Participate in design reviews and project coordination meetings.
  • Support construction-phase services and technical issue resolution.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Life and disability benefits.
  • Paid time off and leaves of absence.
  • Flexible work options and well-being resources.
  • Employee assistance program and business travel insurance.
  • Retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan.
Full Job Description
Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our growing Canadian Data Center practice. This role will support the design and delivery of hyperscale, colocation, and other mission-critical facilities across North America. This is a newly created position.

The successful candidate will contribute to the design of resilient mechanical infrastructure while collaborating with experienced multidisciplinary Data Center teams across Canada, the U.S., and globally. This is an opportunity to develop specialized expertise in a rapidly growing sector while working on complex, high-performance facilities.

Responsibilities
  • Design mechanical systems for data centers and mission-critical facilities, including HVAC, heat-rejection, chilled-water, hydronic, and critical cooling systems.
  • Perform cooling-load calculations, equipment sizing, capacity planning, and other mechanical engineering analyses.
  • Prepare mechanical plans, schematics, schedules, details, specifications, and supporting calculations.
  • Apply applicable Canadian building, mechanical, energy, fire, and plumbing codes and requirements.
  • Coordinate mechanical designs with architectural, electrical, structural, civil, controls, fire protection, technology, and other disciplines.
  • Support design criteria addressing reliability, redundancy, resiliency, maintainability, energy efficiency, and capacity.
  • Participate in multidisciplinary design reviews, quality reviews, and project coordination meetings.
  • Support construction-phase services, including RFIs, submittal reviews, site observations, commissioning activities, and resolution of technical issues.
  • Coordinate with clients, contractors, vendors, utilities, and other project stakeholders.
  • Perform work in accordance with project scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements.


Qualifications

Minimum Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • 4+ years of relevant mechanical engineering or building mechanical design experience, or demonstrated equivalency of education and experience.
  • Experience designing building mechanical systems and preparing calculations, drawings, schedules, specifications, and technical documentation.
  • Working knowledge of applicable Canadian building, mechanical, energy, fire, and plumbing codes and requirements.
  • Registered, or eligible to register, as a Professional Engineer within Canada.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with hyperscale, colocation, mission-critical, healthcare, laboratory, industrial, or other complex facilities.
  • Experience designing data center HVAC, cooling, and heat-rejection systems.
  • Knowledge of reliability, redundancy, resiliency, and maintainability concepts.
  • Experience with chilled-water systems, cooling towers, dry coolers, CRAH/CRAC units, fan-wall systems, economizers, hydronic distribution, or liquid-cooling technologies.
  • Experience with computational fluid dynamics, energy modelling, or other mechanical-system analysis tools.
  • Experience with Revit and Autodesk Construction Cloud.
  • Familiarity with applicable ASHRAE, CSA, NFPA, Uptime Institute, TIA-942, ANSI/BICSI 002, and other data center industry standards.


Additional Information
  • Relocation is not available for this position.
  • Sponsorship is not available for this position.


At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

About AECOM

AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government. With approximately 45,000 employees around the world, AECOM is a leader in all of the key markets that it serves. AECOM provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation and technical excellence in delivering solutions that create, enhance and sustain the world's built, natural, and social environments. A Fortune 500 company, AECOM serves clients in more than 150 countries and had revenue of $8.0 billion during the 12 months ended March 31, 2014.

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Learn more about AECOM
Size
51,000 employees
Market Cap
$11.8 billion
Industry
Real Estate & Construction
Net Income
-$200.8 million
Founded
1990
5 Year Trend
-6.3%
Revenue
$13.3 billion
NASDAQ
ACM
* Ladders Estimates

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