Director, Mechanical Engineering

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🔥 18 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £175k - £225k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍🔧 Mechanical Engineer

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VOLTA

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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

• Act as Volta's mechanical subject matter expert and design authority across every AI factory in EMEA and AMER, from concept through commissioning and handover • Develop, deploy and maintain mechanical design standards, specifications and basis of design documents • Provide mechanical input to Volta's AI factory Reference Design • Own liquid cooling architecture, including facility water systems, technology cooling systems and coolant distribution units • Align cooling architecture with rack, GPU and thermal requirements alongside CTO and CPO organisations • Support live projects from concept through detailed design, construction and commissioning • Track AI hardware and cooling technology evolution and translate it into mechanical standards • Lead mechanical design reviews and technical assurance • Act as design authority for departures from the mechanical standard • Collaborate with electrical, controls and structural subject matter experts • Work with Procurement to standardise specifications for long-lead mechanical equipment and enable framework agreements, prefabrication and modular delivery • Champion safety, reliability, maintainability, and energy and water efficiency • Embed delivery and operations lessons into mechanical standards • Direct external design partners, mentor engineers and build the mechanical engineering team • Report mechanical engineering status, risks and decisions to the Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• A degree in mechanical or building services engineering • Chartered or professional engineer status (for example CEng or PE) preferred • Significant experience in data centre or mission critical mechanical engineering • Senior technical leadership of mechanical design on large scale programmes • Deep technical expertise in data centre cooling, including chilled water and heat rejection systems, air side design, hydraulic design and cooling control philosophy • Track record developing and deploying mechanical design standards, reference designs or basis of design documents for a hyperscale, colocation or large scale data centre developer • Hands-on experience designing and delivering high density and liquid cooled environments for AI and HPC workloads • Experience with direct-to-chip cooling, coolant distribution units and facility water systems • Understanding of how GPU cluster thermal requirements drive facility design • Familiarity with data centre mechanical codes and standards in Europe and North America, including ASHRAE guidelines and NFPA standards • Strong commercial judgement balancing capex, schedule, reliability and operability • Ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives • Collaborative approach and ability to maintain mechanical standards • Right to work in the country where the role is based

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in Volta • Retirement/pension contributions • Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits • Generous number of vacation days each year • Discretionary bonus • Global benefits designed to support employees wherever they are based