Our client is a very established and growing consultancy who are seeking an experienced Principal Mechanical Engineer who is looking to rise to the challenge of acting as a technical discipline lead in the data centre sector and becoming a permanent member of their friendly, supportive and creative Building Engineering Team.\n\nAs an integral member of their multi-disciplinary engineering team, you will be responsible for the mechanical design packages and overall mechanical discipline and will be expected to take them from initial brief through scheme & detail design to installation and commissioning support. This role will harness your core data centre skills and experience to provide technical guidance on discipline-specific data centre projects, as well as mentoring and developing junior colleagues.\n\nResponsibilities include:\n\n * Leading the planning and managing the delivery of the mechanical work packages on medium and large-scale complex projects\n\n * Ensuring all designs and documents are prepared and reviewed to the highest standards\n\n * Leading projects and working closely with the data centre clients to deliver quality work to meet their specific needs\n\n * Presenting technical material for review by technical and non-technical audiences.\n\n * Contributing to conceptual design studies and reports for your discipline and package\n\n * Enthusiastically developing and mentoring junior team members in their career development, including technical and soft skills\n\n * Managing finances and staffing resource to ensure successful delivery of projects within agreed budgets and timescales\n\n * Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams maximising experience at the local, regional, and global levels\n\nWe are seeking a candidate who is:\n\n * Degree qualified in Mechanical or Building Services Engineering ( preferably to Masters level) with Chartership status ( CIBSE / IMechE)\n\n * An accomplished engineer who is interested in further developing their design and project management skills on fast-paced, highly technical projects, working collaboratively to lead multi-disciplinary design teams, and who seeks to take responsibility for managing projects from inception to completion to achieve outstanding results.\n\n * Experienced in data centre & other mission critical systems and facilities.\n\n * Have demonstrable experience of successfully leading complex mechanical engineering projects with a strong ability to communicate with the team and clients through sketching, drawing and writing\n\n * Competent in designing software packages\n\nIf you are interested please send your CV to Ben