Commissioning Engineer, AMER-West ACx

About the role

The AWS Infrastructure Services team is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. This includes managing the data centers and all the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure customers have continuous access to the innovative services they rely on.

Responsibilities

• Support the operations of Amazon-owned data centers
• Tackle fascinating and challenging problems related to the construction and commissioning of various systems
• Collaborate with people across AWS to ensure the highest standards for safety and security
• Deliver seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers

Requirements

• Experience in Critical Infrastructure Commissioning
• Fast-paced environment
• Join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles

Physical Requirements

• Walk job sites in uneven terrain
• Work at heights and from ladders
• Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Lift and/or move up to 49 pounds; and participate in group lifts for 50 pounds or more
• Carry objects weighing up to 49 pounds for short distances
• Manipulate small wires and objects easily
• Work in a noisy environment
• Work in environments that are colder or hotter than a normal office environment

Additional Job Requirements

• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally for up to 80% of the year
• Personal transportation for meetings and job visits away from the office; reimbursed
• US Citizenship required

Key job responsibilities

• Provide testing and validation oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure
• Review design documents, lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and manage third-party commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing
• Take Ownership of projects’ successes by diving deep to resolve technical issues and having bias for action to address ever-changing schedule and coordination demands onsite
• Communicate lessons learned and continuously collaborate on program improvements
• Manage the project commissioning vendor whose primary scope is to identify issues, determine criticality, propose solutions, and document their findings
• Communicate lessons learned to help peers on similar projects in flight and participate in initiatives that drive improvement to the commissioning program

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering, installation, or startup/commissioning of electrical and mechanical systems experience
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or 5+ years of relevant discipline work experience
• High technical competency in either mechanical or electrical or control systems utilized in critical infrastructures, with the capability to learn and be trained in the others
• Understand the design concept and intent by reviewing mechanical or electrical design documentation, including drawings, specifications, vendor submittals and sequences of operations and provide feedback on the same in accordance with Amazon standards for basis of design
• Develop but majorly review commissioning documentation such as test plans, scripts and reports developed by vendors to ensure accuracy in accordance with the design requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Outlook required; advanced knowledge of SharePoint (or similar) preferred
• Strong communication skills, detail oriented, highly organized, and able to work in high stress environments to maintain calm and respectful interaction with multiple teams
• Advanced knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems for critical infrastructures
• Ability to read and edit construction documents (design drawings, control diagrams, specifications, etc.)