Director, Mechanical Design APAC

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The role of Director, Mechanical Design APAC requires experience in developing new data centre designs to meet reliability and availability requirements, efficiency & sustainability benchmarks (PUE & WUE), international best practices, regulatory requirements, safety in design, cost targets, and speed to market.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for completing the design for multiple projects in parallel (both greenfield and fit out), within budget and program. Projects will span across regional metros.
• Develop design brief & key metrics to ensure consistency in design quality and requirements.
• The design must be concurrently maintainable, meet five nines availability, optimized for local climate conditions, and sustainable with both power & water availability.
• Responsible for attending technical interviews with clients and vendors, developing tender and construction drawings, drafting of tender specifications, conducting technical evaluations, performing technical downloads to construction and operation teams, and problem solving.
• Review equipment specifications, equipment shop drawings, and construction drawings to ensure the design is well coordinated with other disciplines and maintainable, code compliant, and meets build to suit requirements.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Mechanical Professional Engineer (ACMV and Fire Protection) with practicing certificate preferred.
• 10+ years in Data Centre Detail Design; with more than 5 years in principal engineer/MEP manager position.
• Experience in mechanical studies – air flow modeling, heat load calculation, hydraulic calculation, computational fluid dynamic modeling for hot air re-entrainment, rate of temperature rise simulation, boundary noise simulation, prevailing wind influence on hot air exhaust.
• Experience in the design and equipment selection for make-up water tank, thermal storage tank, centralized diesel storage and delivery system, goods lift, fireman lift.
• Familiar with cooling methods – direct & indirect evaporative cooling, closed circuit heat exchange, dry cooler, magnetic bearing chiller, cold plate liquid cooling, immersion cooling.
• Experience in Chiller Plant Operation System, sequence of operation & PLC flow chart.
• Experience in Energy Modeling for Green Mark Data Centre.
• Experience in hyper scale datacenters, micro-electronics, or other critical infrastructure is preferred.
• Proficient in English and Mandarin.
• Proficient in AutoCAD for design and drafting.
• LEED professional credentials preferred.
• Willing to travel based on project requirements.

Company Overview

Bridge Data Centres Malaysia is a leading owner, operator, and investor in data centres located across Asia Pacific. The company invests in, conceptualizes, designs, builds, and operates high-quality data centre facilities, with best-in-class operating and maintenance procedures to ensure the highest levels of uptime and reliability.

We are looking for suitable candidates to fulfill the required position for our current plant at Cyberjaya, new plant located at Kulai, Johor, and Bukit Jalil. Due to business growth and expansion, we are looking for talented candidates with various expertise areas, like projects and construction, BMS, property operations, critical operations, etc. Many exciting roles are waiting for you.