Hybrid working, data centre projects, associate level mechanical

Associate level mechanical engineers with data centre experience have options. Few of those options come with genuine flexibility about where the work happens.

This consultancy is hiring at senior, principal and associate level across several UK offices, with this seat focused on London and a working pattern that is genuinely hybrid rather than nominally so. The firm designs across the building services spectrum with a strong and growing data centre workload, and it is hiring because the pipeline demands it.

At associate level you run your own schemes and client relationships, direct the engineers delivering the detail, and shape how the mechanical team works rather than just working in it. The flexibility is not a perk bolted on afterwards: the firm is set up for it, which is why it can hire the best engineer rather than the nearest one.

The hiring brief also spans Leeds and Sunderland, so if your circumstances change the firm can flex with you. That breadth tells you something about how the consultancy thinks: it hires capability first and sorts geography second, which is exactly the attitude that makes hybrid arrangements actually work in practice.

If your current role demands five days at a desk to do work you could lead from anywhere, this is the correction. Salary is between £75,000 and £90,000.

Send a CV or ask about the working pattern first. Both are easy conversations.

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