Position: Mechanical Project Engineer
Location: Milan, Italy (must be based local or willing to relocate)
Project Type: Data Centre projects
I am working with a large engineering firm who deliver large, technically complex projects across Europe. Right now, they are expanding their data centre delivery team and looking for a Project Engineer (Mechanical) who can translate design intent into real‑world installation without needing a small army or divine intervention.
What You’ll Actually Be Doing
You’ll be responsible for the day‑to‑day mechanical engineering activities on a major construction project. Some of it is coordination, some of it is investigative, and some of it is stopping avoidable issues from becoming expensive ones.
Your role includes:
- Pulling together design documents and drawings so the team isn’t building from memory.
- Joining handover meetings — the moment where hopes, dreams, and actual scope collide.
- Identifying value‑engineering opportunities that reduce cost without reducing quality.
- Preparing coordinated drawings across mechanical, electrical, sprinkler, architectural, and structural disciplines.
- Reviewing design specs, technical submittals, and drawings to make sure they’re compliant and buildable.
- Supporting weekly progress reports (the ones people actually read).
- Raising and tracking purchase orders, equipment deliveries, and receipts.
- Using RFIs to clarify anything vague, contradictory, or suspiciously optimistic in the design.
- Keeping an eye on project commercials: variations, take‑offs, profit plans — because engineering doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
- Working closely with designers, contractors, and your own project team to resolve technical and commercial issues early.
- Attending technical meetings and, occasionally, mediating them.
- Managing document control using File Key — yes, it matters.
- Preparing method statements and risk assessments that are accurate and reflect what’s happening on site.
- Coordinating subcontractors so everyone installs the right thing in the right place at the right time.
- Carrying out inspections, snagging, and P&ID/layout walkdowns.
- Populating and tracking test packs like the project depends on it (because it does).
- Protecting sensitive information
Who Thrives in This Role
You’ll fit right in if you:
- Understand the dance between design, procurement, and installation.
- Enjoy problem‑solving more than problem‑observing.
- Communicate well with everyone — from BIM modellers to site crews to commercial teams.
- Prefer a bit of structure but can handle the dynamic chaos of a live construction project.
- Want to build a career delivering some of the most complex data centre
- projects in Europe.
Why our client?
They are large enough to build some of the biggest and most demanding mission‑critical facilities in Europe — but small enough that your work matters, your voice is heard, and your development is intentional.
You’ll work with people who are skilled, collaborative, and grounded — no egos, no nonsense.