Mechanical Quality Assurance (QA) Engineering Director, HVAC + Fire APAC

About the role

Responsibilities

The role of Professional Engineering & Quality Assurance (Mechanical) requires the experience in developing new data centre design to meet reliability and availability requirement, efficiency & sustainability benchmark (PUE & WUE), international best practices, regulatory requirement, safety in design, cost target and speed to market.

As a team lead, he/she is accountable for the performance of the department under his/her leadership. The candidate is responsible in providing clear objectives, manage the resources, improve the work flow, and coach the team to meet departmental and company-wide goals. The candidate should be a specialist in his/her field in order to provide technically sound, all-rounded and optimum solutions to the department. The candidate will motivate and appraise his/her direct reports with the ultimate goal of alleviating the team’s performance and capabilities within a short period of time.

Responsibilities

He / She is 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. The role must 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. He / She is responsible for attending to technical interview with client and vendors, developing tender and construction drawings, drafting of tender specification, conducting technical evaluation, perform technical download to construction and operation team, and problem solving. He/ She shall review equipment specification, equipment shop drawing and construction drawing to ensure the design is well coordinated with other disciplines and maintainable, code compliant, and meet build to suit requirement

Key Deliverables

• Design output Quality Assurance
• Technical evaluation of design variation
• 30% ~ 90% design validation
• Construction drawing validation
• Testing and inspection result verification
• General contractor tender document and evaluation
• Regulatory compliance
• Standardized design
• Site-specific solutions
• Basis of Design
• Standardize construction methodology, inspection checklist, material specifications for quality control
• Delivery of multiple regional projects at the same time
• Positive influencing and outcome driven pre-consultation with Authorities Having Jurisdiction
• Quality control of critical workmanship affecting the durability and functionality of critical services
• Familiar with changes in planning policy and law that may affect property development
• Experienced in designing for next-generation design for AI workload

Qualifications

• Proven design experience across regional metros

• Mechanical Professional Engineer (ACMV and Fire Protection) with practicing certificate preferred

• 15+ years in Data Centre Detail Design; with more than 5 years in principle 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 method – 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 datacenter, 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 requirement

• Track record in managing concurrent and fast-track projects, problem solving with innovative design and own the responsibility in driving desirable outcome with both internal and external partners