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Senior Mechanical Engineer - Data Center focus

Arcadis
Knoxville, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 2/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/16/2026
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As a Mission Critical Mechanical Engineering SME, you will be instrumental in providing technical expertise to internal team members and external clients, driving our data center work forward. You will be responsible for providing guidance and training to our in-house engineering team by giving principal level advice on system selection, trends in the market, specialty consulting advice, and client contact/context. As an SME, you will help give our clients confidence in the teams we have assembled and help in creating winning strategies and resumes for opportunities. Some travel will be required to visit project sites and attend client meetings.

Role accountabilities:

  • Assist in client contact, connections, and finding opportunities, increasing the mission critical work that Arcadis performs
  • Provide expert consultant mechanical engineering advice to our clients in the data center space
  • Familiarity with industry standards, building codes, both in how those specifically apply to data centers and how they may change for the mission critical industry going forward
  • Guide as to the pros and cons of system types and rack cooling strategies
  • Coordinate with other internal/external engineering disciplines, vendors, and contractors
  • Act as point of contact for mechanical discipline in high-level and key decision discussions with data center clients
  • Participate in all phases of a project from pursuit and proposals through design, and construction
  • Create thought leadership opportunities to expand Arcadis's touch and brand in the data center market
  • Assist in the preparation of proposals, specifically the potential engineering approach and strategy for winning
  • Travel as required to attend pursuit discussions, project meetings, and collaboration with clients’ team members
  • Work in a collaborative team environment that includes colleagues from locations throughout the world
  • Provide mentoring to staff

Qualifications & Experience:

  • BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
  • 20 or more years of relevant experience in data center Mechanical Engineering
  • PE Registration

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 15 years experience in Data Center / Mission Critical system design including data centers and other facilities with need for resiliency/redundancy

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $350,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

Salary : $180,000 - $350,000

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