Description
What if you could redefine what's possible? With WSP, you can.
Join a team helping shape some of the most complex and mission-critical facilities in Canada. Based in Vancouver, this opportunity allows you to lead the mechanical design of high-performance data centres and mission critical environments that power the digital economy.
Your Impact
- Lead the mechanical design and delivery of data centres and mission critical facilities from concept through construction, driving high-quality outcomes across complex projects.
- Develop innovative HVAC, cooling, plumbing, thermal management, ventilation, heat-rejection, and fuel systems that optimize performance, resilience, maintainability, and efficiency.
- Integrate mechanical solutions with electrical, structural, architectural, controls, and digital infrastructure requirements through close multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Shape high-availability facilities by applying redundancy, fault-tolerance, operational-risk, and reliability strategies appropriate to demanding mission critical environments.
- Guide commissioning and construction activities, including integrated systems testing, FAT, SAT, submittals, RFIs, change orders, and reviews for compliance with design intent.
- Partner with clients, contractors, equipment vendors, utilities, commissioning authorities, and other stakeholders throughout project delivery.
- Mentor engineers and designers, review technical deliverables, and strengthen a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Advance business growth through proposals, client relationships, technical due diligence, Owner's Engineer services, and identification of opportunities across the mission critical sector.
The Skills That Set You Apart
- A degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution and a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation, or eligibility for registration in British Columbia. Preference will be given to engineers registered in both British Columbia and Alberta.
- Demonstrated experience designing mission critical facilities, data centres, or highly resilient building systems, including hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, edge, or telecommunications environments in the 5 MW to 300+ MW CITL range and high-density AI/HPC deployments exceeding 50–200+ kW/rack.
- Deep technical knowledge of mission critical mechanical infrastructure, including air-cooled chillers, fluid coolers, CDUs, liquid-to-chip cooling, fan walls, CRAHs, CRACs, RDHX, DOAS, plumbing, generator-room cooling, combustion air, exhaust, heat rejection, and fuel-oil systems.
- Experience evaluating system resilience, maintainability, fault tolerance, operational risk, and redundancy, including N, N+1, 2N, and 2N+1 architectures, with knowledge of ASHRAE TC 9.9, Uptime Institute Tier Standards, TIA-942, and relevant Canadian codes and standards.
- Strong understanding of PLC and DDC control systems, including sequences of operation, control narratives, redundancy and failover logic, alarm management, and integration with BMS, EPMS, and mission critical infrastructure.
- Ability to review and provide technical direction on CFD analyses, airflow modelling, transient thermal studies, PUE optimization, WUE, and heat-recovery evaluations, supported by experience with industry building-systems design and modelling platforms.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary projects while managing technical priorities, client interfaces, design reviews, due diligence, and both greenfield and brownfield data-centre developments, expansions, and retrofits.
- Experience supporting construction and commissioning, including integrated systems testing, FAT and SAT, together with strong technical writing, project leadership, and client engagement skills.
Why Choose WSP?
- Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.
- A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.
- Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it's across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition , because your growth drives ours.
- Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours.
Compensation
- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $122,900 - $162,800
- MB & ON: $112,100 - $154,400
- NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $111,000 - $147,400