Technical Director

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR / SME - SEMICONDUCTOR FACILITIES (MECHANICAL)

Chandler / Phoenix, AZ - Also open to Dallas, Raleigh-Durham and Conshohocken

From $200,000 base DOE

Bonus

Full benefits

Our client is a global engineering, procurement and construction partner delivering some of the most complex fab and cleanroom projects being built in the US today.

This is a technical authority role, not a delivery management one. You sit at the front end - defining the design basis, setting direction, challenging assumptions before they become expensive, and handing the delivery team a concept they can build to. You are not chasing drawings through construction; you are deciding what gets designed in the first place.

What you'll be doing

• Owning the mechanical concept and design basis for semiconductor fab and cleanroom projects
• Load calculations, system selections and design philosophies across cleanroom HVAC and air systems, process cooling water, chilled water, exhaust and abatement, bulk and specialty gases, and central utility buildings
• Acting as the senior technical voice with clients at the earliest project stages, including feasibility and options studies
• Setting technical standards across the mechanical group and reviewing the wider team's output
• Mentoring engineers who take your concept forward into detailed design

What we're looking for

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering; PE required
• Deep experience on large-scale capital projects in a facilities or industrial setting - fabs, cleanrooms, pharma, data centres, or comparable high-purity process environments
• Real depth in mechanical utility systems for a manufacturing environment, rather than product or R&D-side design
• The standing to be the most senior technical figure in the room with clients, contractors and consultants
• Based in or willing to relocate to the one of the locations listed at the top