Cushman & Wakefield

Overview

The Mechanical Technician supports mission-critical data center operations by maintaining cooling and mechanical infrastructure that protects thermal stability, reliability, and uptime. This role performs safe, accurate, and compliant preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance in accordance with approved procedures and enterprise data center standards.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on CRAC/CRAH units, chillers, pumps, heat exchangers, cooling towers, and related mechanical systems.
• Execute assigned work safely and to standard, ensuring no impact to critical IT load, cooling capacity, or system redundancy.
• Conduct inspections, filter changes, coil cleaning, lubrication, belt checks, vibration monitoring, and other routine maintenance activities.
• Maintain chilled water, condenser water, refrigerant, and thermal control systems within approved operating parameters.
• Follow SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, change controls, and site procedures for all maintenance and recovery activities.
• Support equipment isolation, lockout/tagout, restoration, and return-to-service activities during planned and emergency work.
• Monitor equipment conditions during rounds, identify abnormal trends, and escalate risks before they affect operations.
• Document work accurately in the CMMS, including work orders, asset updates, corrective actions, and completion notes.
• Coordinate vendor activities to ensure compliance with site standards, safety requirements, and approved procedures.
• Verify post-maintenance performance and confirm systems are restored to normal operating and redundancy conditions.
• Support commissioning, recommissioning, turnover, and infrastructure upgrade activities for mechanical systems.
• Assist with cooling performance validation, airflow verification, heat-load support, and high-density compute readiness.
• Support liquid cooling systems, including CDU interfaces, leak detection, and coolant loop monitoring, as assigned.
• Identify developing failure modes and recommend corrective or preventive actions to improve reliability.
• Comply with environmental, EPA refrigerant, PPE, LOTO, confined space, and chemical handling requirements.
• Participate in emergency response activities to restore mechanical system stability and protect uptime.
• Communicate system status, risks, findings, and maintenance outcomes clearly and promptly to leadership.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, KPI reporting, audits, and maintenance execution enhancements.

Requirements

• 2–5+ years of experience in HVAC, mechanical maintenance, data center operations, or critical facilities.
• Working knowledge of chilled water, DX, pumps, valves, thermal controls, and related cooling infrastructure.
• Experience performing preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance in an active operational environment.
• Proficiency with CMMS work order management, asset tracking, and maintenance documentation.
• Familiarity with SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, change control, and controlled maintenance practices.
• Knowledge of environmental compliance and EPA refrigerant handling requirements.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, equipment manuals, and technical documentation.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills in mechanical systems.
• Ability to work shift schedules and support 24/7 operations as needed.
• EPA certification preferred; HVAC, mechanical, or critical facilities certifications are a plus.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Vision
• Dental
• PTO