WSP

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Mission Critical Buildings

WSP • $95K — $130K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation.
  • Over 10 years of mechanical engineering experience in mission critical facilities and complex infrastructure.
  • Expertise in chilled water systems, cooling plants, and data center architectures.
  • Experience with Tier III or Tier IV facilities in enterprise, colocation, or hyperscale projects.
  • Knowledge of advanced cooling technologies like direct-to-chip and immersion cooling.
  • Proven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and engage with clients and contractors.
  • Strong balance of technical excellence and commercial objectives.

Responsibilities

  • Lead mechanical design and delivery for mission critical facilities.
  • Develop and implement cooling solutions for data centers.
  • Integrate high-density cooling technologies into designs.
  • Conduct thermal calculations and cooling capacity studies.
  • Coordinate mechanical design with other engineering disciplines.
  • Prepare and review technical documentation and basis-of-design reports.
  • Guide site visits and oversee construction and commissioning activities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge data center projects.
  • Mentorship and professional development opportunities.
  • Engagement with multidisciplinary teams and clients.
  • Contribution to strategic pursuits and practice growth.
  • Involvement in innovative cooling technology solutions.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Opportunity

Design What Comes Next
Shape resilient, scalable, maintainable, and energy-efficient mechanical infrastructure for mission critical and data center facilities across Canada. In this senior technical leadership role, you will guide multidisciplinary teams, partner directly with clients, and advance cooling solutions for enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, AI, cloud, and high-performance computing environments.

Your Impact

  • You will lead mechanical design and technical delivery for complex mission critical facilities, helping clients achieve reliable operations, efficient performance, and capacity for future growth:


  • Lead the planning, design, and delivery of mechanical systems for enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, AI, cloud, and high-performance computing data centers.


  • Develop chilled water, pumping, heat rejection, air-cooled, and liquid-cooled solutions that support reliability, redundancy, maintainability, and operational continuity.


  • Integrate high-density cooling technologies, including direct-to-chip cooling, immersion cooling, rear-door heat exchangers, and coolant distribution units.


  • Perform and review thermal calculations, load assessments, cooling capacity studies, energy analyses, CFD studies, and airflow optimization strategies.


  • Coordinate mechanical design with electrical, structural, civil, controls, telecommunications, commissioning, and architectural disciplines.


  • Prepare and review basis-of-design reports, specifications, technical studies, calculations, and construction documents that enable confident project decisions.


  • Guide site visits, construction administration, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational readiness activities.


  • Mentor engineers and designers, strengthen client relationships, and contribute to proposals, strategic pursuits, and practice growth.


The Skills That Set You Apart

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation.


  • More than 10 years of progressive mechanical engineering experience, including mission critical facilities, data centers, healthcare, industrial, advanced technology, or other complex infrastructure.


  • Demonstrated expertise in chilled water systems, cooling plants, pumping systems, heat rejection equipment, and air- and liquid-cooled data center architectures.


  • Experience with enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, AI, cloud, or high-performance computing projects, including Tier III or Tier IV facilities.


  • Knowledge of direct-to-chip cooling, immersion cooling, coolant distribution units, rear-door heat exchangers, CFD analysis, and thermal optimization.


  • Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and working directly with clients, contractors, utilities, vendors, and commissioning personnel.


  • Ability to balance technical excellence, project execution, client expectations, and commercial objectives while providing clear technical guidance.


  • Readiness to participate in site visits, commissioning, integrated systems testing, operational readiness reviews, and construction administration.


Compensation:

  • AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $104,100-138,000


  • MB & ON: $95,000-130,800


  • NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $94,100-124,900


Disclosure:
The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Ready to Shape the Future?

Bring your mission critical expertise to WSP and help design the resilient cooling infrastructure behind the next generation of data centers. Apply today to lead complex work, grow trusted client partnerships, and shape facilities built for performance, continuity, and what comes next.

About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
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