Principal Critical Facilities Engineer (SME)

As the Principal Critical Facilities Engineer (PCFE), you will serve as the senior technical advisor to the Director of Operations and Critical Facilities Manager (CFM), providing enterprise-level technical leadership for all Critical Facilities Engineering operations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for all critical infrastructure systems.
• Advise the Director and CFM on engineering strategy, reliability, and technical risk.
• Provide 24/7 technical consultation during major incidents and outages.
• Support commissioning, expansions, and operational readiness.
• Own the site's Maintenance Readiness Program, ensuring all planned maintenance activities are fully prepared for safe and successful execution.
• Lead daily and weekly maintenance readiness reviews with Operations, Planning, Customer Engineering, and Vendors.
• Verify all work packages include approved procedures, outage requests, permits, risk assessments, switching plans, required documentation, and contingency plans.
• Ensure qualified personnel, vendors, tools, calibrated test equipment, spare parts, materials, and support equipment are available prior to scheduled work.
• Partner with the Critical Facilities Manager to resolve schedule conflicts, resource constraints, and operational risks.
• Validate CMMS work package quality and readiness before maintenance execution.
• Monitor maintenance execution performance and drive continuous improvement through post-work reviews and lessons learned.
• Final technical approver for SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, and maintenance procedures.
• Oversee development and continuous improvement of maintenance processes.
• Review and approve elevated-risk maintenance activities.
• Ensure engineering documentation accuracy and standardization.
• Develop equipment maintenance scopes and inspection frequencies.
• Lead creation of the site's 52-week maintenance schedule.
• Optimize PM, PdM, CBM, and RCM programs.
• Improve equipment reliability and lifecycle performance.
• Partner with Training leadership to develop the CFE training and qualification program.
• Develop technical standards and qualification requirements.
• Deliver advanced technical instruction and mentor engineers.
• Lead technical support during SEV events.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Validate mitigation strategies.
• Optimize system reliability and performance.
• Oversee quality of maintenance on mechanical systems.
• Manage technical vendor relationships.
• Develop mechanical operating standards.
• Monitor PUE and identify energy-saving initiatives.
• Lead engineering optimization projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in mission-critical engineering.
• Expert knowledge of electrical, mechanical, EPMS/BMS, Fire Life Safety, and reliability engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years in hyperscale data centers.
• Experience supporting Microsoft, AWS, Google, Meta, or Oracle.
• PE, CMRP, or equivalent certification.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $65 per hour.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Gym discount.
• Mental health support.
• Discounted Group Life & AD&D.
• Discounted Group Short & Long-term Disability.
• 401(k) retirement matching.
• PTO/paid holidays.
• Parental leave.