Jobs · OTHR · North Carolina

Staffing - Facilities Engineer III

The Fountain Group · Charlotte, NC · 1 mo ago
On-siteOTHR$56–$60/hrContract

Pay: $56–$60/hour. Duration: 1 year.

About the role

The Facilities Engineer III will serve as a technical leader responsible for end-to-end facilities support for on-site computer rooms at manufacturing locations, with a primary focus on electrical infrastructure, UPS and battery systems, rack layouts, power planning, and overall computer room readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Own IT power demand planning for manufacturing computer rooms, including rack power budgets, peak load assumptions, growth buffers, amperage, phases, A/B feeds, and redundancy paths
  • Develop and maintain documentation for power source paths, redundancy assumptions, and room feeding approaches
  • Coordinate with plant electrical and facilities teams on electrical capacity, panel space, circuits, breakers, and phased expansions
  • Define and manage UPS strategies, including sizing, runtime targets, monitoring, testing, maintenance, and replacement planning
  • Troubleshoot and develop improvement plans for UPS and battery systems
  • Create and maintain rack elevations and as-built room layouts while validating power, thermal, weight, cable, and space constraints
  • Support computer room design, modernization, resiliency, and capacity expansion initiatives
  • Identify and resolve physical and electrical infrastructure constraints while minimizing production impact
  • Serve as a facilities escalation point for computer room power events and participate in root cause analysis and remediation planning
  • Establish and maintain SOPs/MOPs for planned power work, UPS maintenance, rack changes, and room upgrades
  • Provide QA/QC oversight for contractor work affecting computer rooms and critical electrical paths
  • Manage vendor relationships for UPS, battery, and monitoring systems, including quotes, SOWs, and upgrade timelines
  • Collaborate with plant maintenance on generator, transfer system, and testing readiness
  • Support management and operation of the StruxureWare DCIM platform

Required Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in critical facilities, electrical infrastructure, data center, or computer room environments, ideally supporting industrial or manufacturing facilities
  • Hands-on expertise with UPS systems, battery technologies, and electrical distribution
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and knowledge of electrical operational safety protocols
  • Experience producing and maintaining rack elevations and layouts
  • Ability to validate power, thermal, weight, space, and capacity constraints
  • Experience with generators, ATS/STS units, and mission-critical electrical systems

Preferred Skills

  • Familiarity with industry data center tiering concepts
  • Experience supporting manufacturing or industrial facilities
  • Experience with electrical load planning, redundancy, and resiliency strategies
  • Experience with UPS lifecycle management, runtime planning, testing, and capacity upgrades
  • Experience with CAD-style rack elevations and computer room layouts
  • Experience with StruxureWare DCIM or similar data center infrastructure management platforms

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