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Job Tittle: Cooling System Design Engineer
Location: Junction City, OR
About Us
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies – from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers – to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset. Learn more at irco.com and join us to own your future.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly motivated Cooling System Design Engineer to support the design, development, and delivery of cooling infrastructure for hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation data center projects. This role is responsible for designing efficient, reliable, and sustainable thermal management solutions that support mission-critical environments.
The successful candidate will collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, equipment vendors, construction partners, and project stakeholders to develop cooling system designs that meet performance, energy efficiency, scalability, and operational requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Develop conceptual, preliminary, and detailed data center cooling system designs.
- Design and optimize chilled water, DX, liquid cooling, and air-/water-side economization systems.
- Perform cooling load calculations, thermal analyses, system sizing, and energy modeling.
- Develop HVAC layouts, piping schematics, flow diagrams, equipment specifications, and CFD/airflow analyses.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including direct-to-chip and immersion cooling.
- Ensure designs comply with applicable codes, standards, best practices, and resiliency requirements.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and support design reviews, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Review vendor submittals, shop drawings, equipment specifications, and resolve design/field issues.
- Optimize energy efficiency, PUE, lifecycle costs, and sustainability/carbon-reduction objectives.
Prepare engineering calculations, reports, specifications, design documentation, and maintain cooling design standards.
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Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline is preferred.
5+ years of experience in HVAC, mission-critical facilities, or data center infrastructure design.
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Core Competencies
- Data Center Thermal Management
- HVAC Design Engineering
- Mission-Critical Infrastructure
- Cooling System Optimization
- Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
- CFD Analysis
- Technical Documentation
- Vendor & Stakeholder Management
- Risk Assessment & Problem Solving
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting hyperscale or large-scale data center projects.
- Familiarity with ASHRAE Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments.
- Experience with CFD modeling tools such as 6SigmaDCX, Future Facilities, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of liquid cooling technologies for AI/HPC workloads.
- Experience with Uptime Institute Tier standards and TIA-942 requirements.
- LEED Accreditation or experience with sustainable design initiatives.
- Project management experience in multi-disciplinary engineering environments.
- Experience performing HVAC load calculations and system sizing.
- Proficiency with engineering design software such as:
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- BIM platforms
- HVAC modeling tools
- Strong knowledge of:
- Air-cooled and water-cooled chillers
- Chilled water systems
- Cooling towers
- CRAH and CRAC systems
- Pumping systems
- Heat exchangers
- Building Management Systems (BMS)
What We Offer
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership — taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to empower you with the tools and support necessary to take charge of your health, ensuring that together, we can continue to make life better. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. These benefits are our commitment to you, so you can be your best at work and beyond.
Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.
