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Principal Mechanical Commissioning Engineer

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🔥 8 minutes ago

🌐 Ireland, United Kingdom – Remote

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💵 £215k - £270k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

Where this job comes from

Posted on VOLTA's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 8 minutes ago

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VOLTA

51 - 200 employees

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

Media • Marketing • B2B

VOLTA is a visual development studio dedicated to creating high-end 2D and 3D visuals. Since 2006 its veteran team has delivered hundreds of CGI, animation, VFX, concept art, matte painting, storyboard, and key art projects for major entertainment companies worldwide. The studio produces marketing materials and visual development assets for film, TV and related entertainment customers, working as a service provider to other businesses.

📋 Description

• Own Volta's global mechanical commissioning standards, from L1 to L5 off-site commissioning, and integrated system testing • Define the sequence of operations (SOO) for all mechanical commissioning activities through L1 to L5 • Set test strategy for cooling plant, pumps, hydronics, air systems, water treatment and the facility side of liquid cooling • Define cooling failure, redundancy and recovery scenarios under representative AI loads • Act as the escalation point for thermal, flow and controls issues and disputed evidence across all sites • Set the bar commissioning agents and contractors are selected and measured against • Integrate mechanical testing with CDU, electrical, BMS/PMS and turn-up requirements • Evolve standards and reference design using test results and operating data • Build mechanical commissioning capability across Volta and its partners • Make final technical calls on mechanical acceptance questions across sites

🎯 Requirements

• Recognised senior authority in mechanical commissioning of hyperscale or mission-critical data centres, typically 10+ years • A track record writing and owning mechanical commissioning standards across a portfolio • Deep knowledge of cooling systems, hydronics, water quality, balancing and mechanical controls • Experience leading integrated systems testing and judging thermal and hydraulic performance evidence • Ability to make high-consequence acceptance calls with designers, vendors and contractors • Experience influencing across functions and regions without direct authority • High-density AI infrastructure and liquid cooling (nice to have) • Dynamic load testing and cooling failure recovery (nice to have) • Mechanical commissioning across international programmes (nice to have) • Right to work in the country where the role is based

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success • Retirement/pension contributions • Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits • Generous number of vacation days each year • Discretionary bonus • Comprehensive benefits

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