Operations and Delivery Engineering Lead, Critical Facilities

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Operations and Delivery Engineering Lead to own the engineering scope of our data centers across their full life cycle — from sites under construction, through turnover, to all subsequent engineering work performed on live infrastructure.

• Team Leadership & People Management
  • Lead, coach, and develop a multi-disciplinary team of delivery and lifecycle engineers;
  • Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention;
  • Plan and prioritize the team’s workload across construction support, commissioning support, lifecycle engineering work on live infrastructure, and engineering escalations from Operations;
  • Build and maintain an on-call rotation that provides qualified engineering support to Operations and to active construction sites when issues exceed the operating team’s authority;
  • Foster a strong safety culture and a blameless, learning-oriented approach to incidents, near-misses, and commissioning findings.
• Construction & Delivery Engineering
  • Own technical support of sites under construction in partnership with Design Engineering;
  • Embed engineers as the on-site technical resource across mechanical, electrical, controls, and fire/life safety scopes;
  • Represent the Operations and Delivery Engineering team in design reviews, constructability reviews, submittal reviews, and RFI/change-order decisions;
  • Provide technical support to the Commissioning Agent and Design Engineering through FAT, SAT, and Levels 1–5 commissioning;
  • Lead the operational readiness and turnover process;
  • Own the engineering scope for any work performed on live data center infrastructure, regardless of size or type.
• Change Control Board (CCB) Ownership
  • Chair the site Change Control Board;
  • Own the process, cadence, quorum, and decision record;
  • Review and approve all technical changes to data center systems and to the way those systems operate;
  • Set the standard for what a CCB-grade change package looks like;
  • Ensure every approved change is properly documented, executed against an approved MOP, validated, and reflected in as-builts, point lists, one-lines, and program backups;
  • Track CCB throughput, change success rate, and change-induced incidents as engineering KPIs, and drive continuous improvement of the change process.
• Engineering Authority During Operations
  • Lead root-cause analysis on complex, cross-system faults and drive corrective actions to closure;
  • Review and approve MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs authored by Operations or vendors;
  • Analyze trend, historian, and alarm data across BMS/EPMS/DCIM to identify degradation, tune performance, and convert findings into CCB-approved changes;
  • Lead engineering participation in incident response, drills, and post-incident reviews;
  • Maintain the engineering source of truth for the site.
• Safety, Compliance & Risk
  • Ensure all engineering and delivery work is performed in compliance with NFPA 70E, including PPE selection, arc flash boundary awareness, and energized work permitting;
  • Own engineering enforcement of LOTO/LOTOTO procedures for work on or near energized electrical and mechanical equipment;
  • Ensure the site meets applicable codes and standards (NEC, NFPA, OSHA).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Controls Engineering, a related engineering/technical field, OR an equivalent combination of technical training and directly relevant experience;
• Minimum 8–10 years of hands-on experience in critical facilities engineering, construction support, or mission-critical infrastructure delivery, including 2+ years in a team lead or people-management capacity;
• Demonstrated experience across both new-build delivery (on-site technical support during construction, commissioning support, turnover) and engineering work on live data center infrastructure;
• Breadth across mechanical/cooling, electrical/power, and controls/BMS, with enough depth to lead design review and troubleshooting across all of them;
• Strong working knowledge of critical facility systems: chilled water and air handling, generators, UPS and switchgear, and BMS/EPMS platforms (Ignition, Schneider EcoStruxure, Johnson Controls Metasys, Tridium Niagara, or equivalent).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams across both delivery and operations in a Tier III/IV data center, colocation facility, or hyperscale environment;
• Direct experience leading large retrofits or major capacity additions on energized critical infrastructure;
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent;
• Uptime Institute ATD/AOS or equivalent data center industry credential;
• OSHA 30 General Industry certification and formal incident-command/emergency-management training.

Benefits

Competitive total compensation package (cash + equity). Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms. Health, dental, and vision insurance. Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

Career Path

The base salary range for this position is $260,000 - $300,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options. We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.