Sr. Critical Facility Engineer

Sr. Critical Facility Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree Engineering, facilities, or related discipline or equivalent experience (Preferred)
• 4-7 years Experience in data center facilities operations, working with equipment mentioned above, preferably in the telecommunications industry.
• 4-7 years Experience in mechanical/HVAC, electrical, or a combination of the two.
• 4-7 years Experience managing vendor work and quality control.
• Strong working knowledge of electrical services, feeders, panels, RPPs, PDUs, DC power supplies in accordance with national codes;
• Familiar with construction and operation of medium voltage switch gear, ATSes, UPSes, DC rectifiers and inverters;
• Familiar with the commissioning and operations of standby electrical generators, synchronization switch gear and different transition modes
• Understand conventional and emerging energy storage technologies, wet cells, VRLA, other battery chemistry technologies
• Strong working knowledge of Data Center Cooling technologies, Chiller Plants, Dry coolers, Misting systems, Condensers, Computer Room AC systems, Computer Room Air Handlers
• Communication (Required)
• Project Management (Required)
• Critical Portfolio Management (Required)

Responsibilities

• Manage the operational execution of all processes and procedures for critical facilities, including work process and authorization, incident management, and routine operations & maintenance process and procedures to maintain 100% uptime.
• Perform daily/weekly/monthly walk-through of critical facilities in support of data center and office operations. Monitor critical facility equipment operation by these walkthroughs and building system monitoring tools. Execute repair and/or maintenance processes thru to completion.
• Engineering, Implementation, Project Management of critical equipment; includes but is not limited to: electrical switchgear, diesel generators, HVAC/CRAC systems, UPS systems, PDUs, RPPs, BMS systems, and fire alarm and suppression systems.
• Reviews, understands, and evaluates the engineering design and operational performance and aspects of critical facilities systems and equipment.
• Must be able to immediately recognize system shortcomings and respond to operational and emergency situations.
• Provides training, support, and guidance to expand team’s capabilities and ensure technical staff is performing work appropriately and is trained on compliance, life/safety programs, and critical environment process and procedures.
• Works with teams to ensure that all proper closeout and commissioning procedures are followed including the collection, distribution, and storage of documentation.
• Participates in critical facility annual planning activities including, reviewing, remodeling, new system construction, facility infrastructure upgrades.
• Use CMMS tool to track all work progress and completion; including review of PM reports and recommended repairs.
• Provides input to annual financial plans for operating expense and capital, and support account by identifying unforeseen emergency expenditures throughout the year.
• Performs site inspections and tours documenting deficiencies and recommendations for improvements or upgrades.
• Maintains accurate asset accounting of infrastructure equipment.
• Ability to write and train technical documentation.
• Ability to write and train processes.
• Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Reliability leader (Preferred)
• Uptime Institute (Preferred)
• LEED, CFM, FMP, MCE (Preferred)