Data Center Mechanical Engineer

About the Role

Join CBRE Data Center Solutions as a Facility Engineer (Mechanical), responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and efficiency of critical mechanical infrastructure within a mission‑critical data centre environment. This role plays a key part in maintaining uptime, supporting operational excellence, and ensuring all systems operate in line with client requirements and CBRE standards.

What You’ll Do

• Operate, monitor, and maintain critical mechanical systems including chillers, cooling towers, pumps, CRAH/CRAC units, AHUs, plumbing, water treatment, and fire suppression systems.


• Lead and execute planned preventive maintenance (PPM) activities to ensure asset reliability and performance.


• Review, manage, and close maintenance activities within the CMMS while maintaining accurate documentation and records.


• Perform fault diagnosis, root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions for mechanical incidents.


• Monitor plant performance, environmental conditions, and energy efficiency, identifying opportunities for optimization and continuous improvement.


• Prepare and execute MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs while supporting change management activities and maintenance windows.


• Supervise Facilities Technicians and provide technical guidance, coaching, and competency development.


• Coordinate and supervise specialist contractors, vendors, and OEMs, ensuring compliance with site procedures and safety requirements.


• Support spare parts planning, lifecycle management, quotation requests, and capital improvement initiatives.


• Contribute to client reporting, KPI reviews, incident investigations, audits, and operational meetings.


• Support emergency response activities and participate in drills and critical incident management.


• Ensure compliance with CBRE Health, Safety & Environment policies, permit‑to‑work systems, and LOTO procedures.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline. Diploma holders with relevant experience are also encouraged to apply.


• Minimum 5 years of experience in mechanical operations and maintenance.


• At least 3 years of experience working within a mission‑critical environment, preferably a data centre.


• Strong knowledge of chilled water systems, cooling infrastructure, thermal management, and redundancy concepts such as N+1 and 2N.


• Experience performing troubleshooting, fault diagnosis, and root cause analysis within critical environments.


• Familiarity with CMMS platforms such as Maximo, Corrigo, Planon, or similar maintenance management systems.


• Experience using BMS/SCADA systems for monitoring and managing critical plant operations.


• Proven experience supervising technicians, contractors, vendors, service providers.


• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and reporting skills.


• Professional working proficiency in both Bahasa Indonesia and English.

Preferred Qualifications

CDCP, CDFOS, K3 Umum/Ahli K3, ISO Internal Auditor, or other relevant mechanical and refrigeration certifications.

Previous experience supporting data centre or other mission‑critical facilities operations.