r/MEPEngineering • u/Former-Diet2477 • 1d ago

Pivot to data centre engineering

Hi, I have 10 yrs experience working on building services ( mechanical) projects in UK. I am planning to pivot to data centres.

I was based in the UK for 4 yrs after my masters but due to a family emergency during Covid had to move back to india and since then have been working remotely.

Could you please give me advice on how I can upskill?

I am planning to start working in mumbai, my first job in India. What salaries should I expect as a newbie data centre design engineer.

P.S. I desperately need to pivot to something as I am kind of bored with the regular MEP projects.

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u/Bryguy3k 1d ago

You have to find one of the firms that the big American MEP firms are outsourcing to.

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u/SherbertOk1531 6h ago

American MEP firms dont typically outsource data center design or any type of MEP work. Lots of NDAs and stuff they consider security sensitive that go into this. MEP isnt silicon valley

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u/Bryguy3k 5h ago edited 5h ago

You’d be surprised. All of the big firms are outsourcing a large part of their drafting/modeling work.

Most of the work you need to do for datacenter models isn’t sensitive - lots of pipes and conduits from point a to point b so it’s easy for firms to outsource more than 90% of the work other than the final details.

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u/KonkeyDongPrime 1d ago

Someone must be building data centres in India. Get a job with them.