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Design Manager

Zerra Dc 🇩đŸ‡ș Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Full-time

Lead mechanical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, including cooling architecture, heat-rejection strategy, and mechanical plant configuration for high-density data centre environments. Coordinate mechanical design with other disciplines and guide solutions through design reviews, constructability, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational handover.

Responsibilities

  • Lead mechanical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, including cooling architecture, heat-rejection strategy, and mechanical plant configuration for high-density data centre environments. Coordinate mechanical design with other disciplines and guide solutions through design reviews, constructability, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational handover.

Requirements

  • Requires at least 10 years of mechanical design or design-management experience, including significant data centre or comparable critical-infrastructure exposure, and expertise in cooling systems and high-density cooling solutions. A Mechanical Engineering qualification is required; familiarity with Revit MEP, AutoCAD MEP, CFD or hydraulic modelling, and ASHRAE TC 9.9 is sought, while chartership, professional registration, and hands-on liquid-cooling deployment are preferred.

Key Skills

Mechanical design Cooling system architecture Heat‑rejection strategy High‑density data centre plant configuration Revit MEP AutoCAD MEP CFD modelling Hydraulic modelling ASHRAE TC 9.9 standards Design reviews Constructability assessment Commissioning Integrated systems testing Operational handover Cross‑functional coordination Quality assurance Project management Leadership Problem solving

About Zerra Dc

Zerra develops and operates hyperscale data centre campuses. With a presence across Australia, Japan and India, we deliver capacity at scale into markets that are underpinned by the growth of cloud and AI. Our flexible campus developments provide fit-for-purpose capacity for hyperscale and neocloud organisations, empowering the world’s fastest-scaling technology businesses to expand with certainty and ambition. Zerra is driving the next evolution of digital infrastructure, bringing the industry’s best talent together to challenge convention, act with intent, and respectfully build for the future. We are creating digital capacity that empowers progress, and powers what’s next.

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