Join our Data Centre Talent Pool!

Hydrock, now Stantec are always looking for talented professionals who share our values.

Its an exciting time to be joining our MEP Data Centre team due to our high levels of growth, with opportunities based in both our London and Cardiff offices. However, if you can’t see the right opportunity for you advertised on our careers site, still get in touch – we are often recruiting from graduate roles right up to Director level with everything in between!

You can find out more about our current projects and Data Centre team here!

Our MEP Division:

Our MEP team are specialists within energy, sustainability, and engineering design, delivering M&E design solutions from initial feasibility stages through detailed design and on to construction, handover, and post occupancy.

Our integrated engineering approach means that we look at the multiple facets that feed into or influence design and performance. Our engineers unravel and integrate wider electrical and mechanical issues such as fire, acoustics, utilities, air quality, sustainability and building physics to create real value and devise simple, sustainable solutions that produce safe, comfortable and energy efficient environments.

We work across all sectors including commercial, industrial, leisure, retail, manufacturing, logistics, heritage and residential for end-user clients, investors, developers, architects, project managers or engineer-led project teams. This diversity of workstreams and the fact that all of our team members work across every sector, means we are constantly cross-pollinating ideas. You can check our MEP’s project portfolio here!

Join our talent pool is you specialise in:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Building Physics
• Public Health Engineering
• Design Managers

Whether you are experienced in designing data centres or looking to move into the specialty get in touch, full training can be provided!

What's great about Hydrock, now Stantec

We are a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.  

From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs. Through the path we are on to delivering a green future, the result is something that everyone can be proud of. 

Named as Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2023, we’re known for delivering outstanding sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.

Some of these projects have recently received industry accolades, including Cleveland Pools winning the Conservation and Regeneration category at the Construction Excellence South West Awards 2023; Bay Technology Centre named Commercial Project of the Year at the British Construction Industry Awards 2022; YGG Tan-y-Lan picked out in the Integration and Collaborative Working category at Construction Excellence Wales Awards 2022; The Deaf Academy singled out for its Universal Design at the Civic Trust Awards 2022; and Bristol’s iconic waterfront Wapping Wharf Living sweeping up at the Bristol Property Awards.

Take a look at our 2023 end of year film and get a feel for what we’re all about. 

What we can offer you: 

• Inspiring and supportive colleagues 
• Reward for progression and hard work 
• An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills
• Competitive starting salary 
• Excellent health benefits 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
• An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!) 
• An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday) 
• A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme 

A place to feel included

We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim.  

We consider all application individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the protected characteristics. We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask with are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us. 

Looking for the next steps? 

Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application’s been reviewed.

If shortlisted, a member of our Talent Acquisition Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock, now Stantec.

If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices. 

For the latest updates and news, connect with us on our LinkedIn page!