What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Mechanical Engineering position at STACK Infrastructure?
Director, Mechanical Engineering
THE COMPANY:
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meet or exceed the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.
STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.
THE POSITION:
At STACK, The Director, Mechanical Engineering & Design, will support innovation initiatives, maintain and update company design standards and direct, coordinate, and oversee project specific design activities within the Innovation and Engineering department ensuring the development of cost-effective and energy efficient data center facilities to meet current and future needs of the company.
Acting as the subject matter expert on cooling systems for data centers, the Director of Mechanical Engineering & Design will advise and support the Innovation and Engineering team by executing the following tasks:
- Oversees the preparation and final approval of project contract documents produced by third party design consultants.
- Ensures that project designs are completed on schedule and within budget.
- Supplies engineering expertise and guidance on projects, operations, and systems within the company’s existing facilities.
- Develops and maintains equipment specifications for owner furnished and contractor installed (OFCI) equipment and systems.
- Supports the procurement of owner furnished and contractor installed equipment and systems through vendor submittal reviews, approvals and factory witness testing.
- Maintains and updates the legacy basis of design documents.
- Assists in development of new basis of designs for emerging business needs.
- Identifies, recommends, and implements new technologies and systems to maximize energy and cost efficiency of the company’s data centers.
- Communicates and implements engineering and design policies, practices, standards, and security measures to ensure effective and consistent operations.
- Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and trends in engineering and design trends related to the organizations industry.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
THE DETAILS:
- Location: Onsite at one of Stack’s Locations; (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Northern Virginia, Phoenix, Portland, San Jose)
- Travel: Domestic travel required up to 30%
- Must be eligible to work in the United States
- Must pass comprehensive background screening
MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the design of data centers and specification of HVAC equipment for mission critical facilities to be considered for Director level position.
- Candidates with 5-7 years’ experience in design of data centers can apply but will be considered for a Manager level position.
- Expertise in IT cooling technologies, both air and direct to chip liquid
- Understanding of mechanical cooling system controls
- Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint
- Baseline proficiency of AutoCAD, Bluebeam and Adobe Acrobat
THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:
- You’re a strong communicator, you’re persuasive and clear, blending engineering analysis with experience in decision-making.
- You don’t get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
- You’re a teambuilder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
- You’re naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.
WHY STACK?
- We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts – even a cell phone subsidy.
- We foster a culture of appreciation, including quarterly STACK-O-LADES.
- Fun is part of our DNA, with (currently virtual) events, game nights, and barbecues.
- We’re growing – this is a great time to join and make an impact!
STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law
Note to external agencies: we are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to stack infrastructure will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.
