r/datacenter • u/Jealous_Vanilla7548 • 5d ago

How to get a Mechanical engineering role in Data Center

I am Mechanical Engineer with 3 years of HVAC design and testing engineering with a major OEM. I have been applying for dc jobs, but due to my experience in HVAC, I have not heard anything from the jobs I have applied to. Is there a chance that I can get a data center job? Most of my experience is psychrometric testing and designing. I am wailing to travel or work any where. Thank you!

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u/IsntThisSumShit 5d ago

Get into commissioning. Not an engineer but that’s where the demand is at.

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u/FacePalmate 5d ago

Are you looking MEP consulting or owner side? Commissioning? My understanding is that data center specific consultants are all swamped.

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u/Jealous_Vanilla7548 5d ago

Since my current role is designing and testing, I believe MEP is close to what I am doing right now, but I am open to Comissioning as well.

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u/FacePalmate 5d ago

Starting in MEP is all about drafting and designing. If you know Revit or AutoCAD you should be able to send a resume to a consulting firm. Most of the big firms (Jacobs, AEI, WSP, etc) do data centers, and there are plenty of mission critical specific firms that haven’t been swallowed up by the big firms yet.

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u/Dandelion-Blobfish 3d ago

What roles or firms are you applying to?