Core, an independent data centre consultancy providing technical advisory services across early design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness, is hiring a Mechanical Engineer in Abu Dhabi. This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering L2 through L5 commissioning activities for assigned systems or areas, ensuring technical compliance, documentation quality, and operational readiness for client acceptance across mission-critical data centre infrastructure.
About Core — Independent Data Centre Consultancy & Technical Advisory
Firm Focus: Independent data centre consultancy helping clients navigate complexity, reduce risk, and deliver mission-critical infrastructure with confidence
Project Lifecycle: Supports projects from early design through construction, commissioning, and operational readiness across the infrastructure lifecycle
Capability: Combines regional expertise and global capability to provide independent insight, assurance, and technical support
Independence: Operates as an independent advisory firm — providing unbiased technical assurance across client commissioning programmes
Engineering Impact & Career Opportunity
Commissioning Authority: Can approve progression between L2–L5 commissioning stages and recommend acceptance or rejection of test results within defined scope
Technical Assurance: Witness and coordinate system functional tests, verify sequences of operation, and validate resilience and recovery outcomes
Documentation Leadership: Own technical documentation quality and completeness across installation verification, functional testing, and integrated systems testing
Career Growth: Build a specialist data centre commissioning career at an independent advisory firm working across Abu Dhabi’s fast-growing critical infrastructure sector
Position Overview
This Mechanical Engineer role at Core in Abu Dhabi plans, coordinates, and delivers L2–L5 commissioning activities for assigned systems and areas within data centre and critical infrastructure projects. The role balances technical delivery, documentation management, and stakeholder coordination — covering installation verification (L2), individual element commissioning (L3), system functional testing (L4), and integrated systems testing (L5) — with authority to approve commissioning stage progressions and recommend acceptance or rejection of test results within defined scope.
Why This Role Matters: As Mechanical Engineer at Core Abu Dhabi, you hold commissioning authority across L2–L5 activities on mission-critical data centre infrastructure where every decision directly impacts facility reliability and client acceptance, lead installation verification through to integrated systems testing — covering ITPs, method statements, system functional tests, and resilience validation — with full documentation ownership, work as an independent technical expert alongside clients, contractors, and operational teams to ensure commissioning outcomes meet design intent and performance requirements, and build a highly specialized critical infrastructure career within an independent consultancy operating at the forefront of Abu Dhabi’s data centre expansion.
Key Responsibilities
L2 — Installation Verification
- Lead verification of installation readiness for assigned systems and areas
- Review and approve installation checklists, Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), and Method Statements
- Ensure all installations meet commissioning entry criteria before progression to L3
L3 — Individual Element Commissioning
- Plan and witness commissioning of individual items of plant and equipment
- Verify correct operation, settings, controls, and protections for each commissioned element
- Confirm stability of individual items before progression to system-level testing
L4 — System Functional Testing
- Coordinate and witness system functional tests across assigned mechanical systems
- Verify sequences of operation and system responses against design intent
- Confirm compliance with design intent and operational requirements before L5
L5 — Integrated Systems Testing
- Support Integrated Systems Testing (IST) activities across assigned facility systems
- Validate resilience and recovery outcomes for assigned mechanical systems
- Assist in client demonstrations and formal acceptance activities
Authority, Documentation & Performance
- Approve progression between commissioning stages within defined scope
- Recommend acceptance or rejection of test results based on technical evidence
- Ensure technical accuracy, robustness of testing, timely issue resolution, and quality and completeness of all documentation
Qualifications & Requirements
Experience Requirements
- 5–8 years of commissioning experience in mission-critical or complex facilities
- Proven data centre or critical infrastructure exposure is a MUST for this role
Technical Skills
- Strong technical documentation and coordination skills across ITPs, checklists, method statements, and test reports
- Ability to lead and witness L2–L5 commissioning activities across mechanical systems in data centre environments
- Capability to verify sequences of operation, controls, and protection settings for individual plant items and integrated systems
About Core
Core provides independent data centre consultancy and technical advisory services that help clients navigate complexity, reduce risk, and deliver mission-critical infrastructure with confidence. Supporting projects from early design through construction, commissioning, and operational readiness, Core brings together regional expertise and global capability to provide independent insight, assurance, and technical support throughout the infrastructure lifecycle. Core is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Career Excellence: Join Core’s Abu Dhabi team and apply your data centre commissioning expertise as an independent technical authority at the heart of the UAE’s critical infrastructure growth.
Who Should Apply?
- Data Centre Commissioning Engineers: With 5–8 years of proven L2–L5 commissioning experience on mission-critical or complex data centre infrastructure projects
- Critical Infrastructure Mechanical Engineers: With demonstrated exposure to data centre environments including CRAC/CRAH systems, chilled water, UPS, generators, or related mechanical plant
- ITP & Method Statement Specialists: Experienced in reviewing, approving, and managing commissioning documentation including installation checklists, inspection and test plans, and functional test reports
- Integrated Systems Testing (IST) Engineers: Comfortable leading resilience validation and recovery testing across complex multi-system data centre environments
- Independent Advisory & Consultancy Engineers: Looking to join an independent data centre consultancy in Abu Dhabi and bring unbiased technical assurance to client commissioning programmes
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