Associate / Associate Director – Data Centre Mechanical or Electrical Engineer

• Lead and support the delivery of mechanical or electrical design packages for major data centre projects
• Manage project teams, technical deliverables, programmes, fees and quality standards
• Review designs and provide technical leadership across your discipline
• Work closely with clients, architects, contractors and multidisciplinary design teams
• Help establish, mentor and grow a dedicated data centre team in Bucharest
• Support recruitment, training and capability development within the local team
• Contribute to client relationship management and support repeat business
• Help develop and refine standardised data centre design approaches for global clients
• Participate in R&D, technical studies and innovation initiatives linked to future data centre design
• Support the senior leadership team in shaping the continued growth of Cundall’s Critical Systems business

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Building Services Engineering or a related discipline
• Chartered Engineer status, or equivalent professional registration
• Significant experience in building services design within a consultancy or design environment
• Strong experience in the data centre sector, ideally including hyperscale or large-scale mission critical projects
• A good understanding of data centre design principles, resilience, redundancy, energy efficiency and operational performance
• Experience managing engineers and coordinating multidisciplinary design teams
• A proven ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines and client expectations
• Strong commercial awareness, including fee management, programme control and scope management
• Excellent client-facing communication skills
• A quality-focused approach and the confidence to challenge, review and improve design outputs
• A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to motivate and develop less experienced engineers

Experience with retrofit projects, liquid cooling, high-density compute environments, AI-enabled data centres, technical due diligence or global template design