Data Center Engineer

About the role

The Skilled Critical Facilities Maintenance Technician plays a crucial role in ensuring the operational integrity and regulatory compliance of data center electrical, mechanical, and fire life safety systems. This role focuses on maximizing customer uptime while minimizing operational costs.

Responsibilities

• Develops creative approaches to keep operational costs to a minimum, improves efficiency, and implements new strategies.
• Ensures systems are tested for performance, read blueprints, and fit or assemble component parts.
• Maintains and monitors facility systems, aligns, fits, or assembles component parts, and responds to abnormal conditions.
• Works with contractors and consultants to review quality assurance for all system expansions, corrections, and upgrades.
• Tracks and completes an aggressive preventive and predictive maintenance program.
• Ensures data center operates at maximum operational efficiency, analyzes existing operating conditions, recommends new technologies, and improves overall efficiency.
• Manages systems to avoid unplanned customer-impacting events.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Understanding of the mechanical, electrical, and fire life safety systems used in a data center environment.
• Knowledge of NEC, NFPA 70E, NFPA 72, NFPA 25, and compliance issues as well as building codes in regard to fire life safety.
• Current knowledge in industrial safety best practices (i.e. lockout/tag out, arc flash protection, OSHA and state regulations).
• Familiarity with data trending / tracking and analysis and the ability to utilize a PC based integrated critical monitoring systems.
• Experience installing, maintaining, and/or troubleshooting large commercial and industrial systems including - chilled water systems, large centrifugal chillers, cooling towers, heat exchangers, water treatment systems, VFD’s and pumps, HVAC equipment, CRAC/CRAH’s, humidification systems, water heaters, water/Air filters, BMS and PLC controls, emergency standby diesel generator systems, fuel/oil systems, 480/277 and 208/120 electrical generation and distribution, static UPS systems, double interlock pre-action systems.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and internal staff and effectively work in a team environment.
• Ability to coordinate, supervise, and communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on these systems.
• Ability to learn quickly and address issues as they arise during normal working hours or after hours.
• Ability to logically analyze and solve problems.
• Ability to operate hand and machine tools (hammer, drill, saw, etc.) and electrical tools such as a multi-meter or infrared camera.
• Ability to operate a forklift.
• Possess critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Relevant high school diploma or equivalent required.
• Relevant advanced qualification or equivalent work-related experience required.
• CPR/First Aid and NFPA70E Certification (can be gained during course of employment).
• Possession of an OSHA approved forklift certification or the ability to obtain one after hire is required.