Senior Mechanical Engineer

Equinix; Slough; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer for its EMEA Data Center Operations team. This role involves planning, system design, and maintenance across data centers, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating with various engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have a technical degree, experience in datacenter environments, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Competent with Mechanical Services, Chillers and HVAC.
• Relevant experience of working within a datacentre environment.
• Ability and willingness to travel to all European sites.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Company SLA for reliability and performance is maintained.
• Evaluate and maintain existing installed systems for efficiency.
• Provide technical advice and consultancy support to local teams.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Education

Technical degree or equivalent experience

Tools

MS Office

AutoCAD

Job description

Who are we?

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

Joining our operations team means that you will be at the forefront of all we do, maintaining critical facilities infrastructure as part of a close-knit team delivering best-in-class service to our data center customers. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

The Equinix EMEA Data Center Operations team is looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to assist with projects across our EMEA data centers. The Mechanical Engineer is performs the planning, system design, system implementation, system maintenance and support. Leads small scale projects and the roll out of engineering initiatives. Assists with the development of engineering design standards, policies and procedures. Effectively interacts with other internal and external teams, including the design engineering, site engineering, construction management and regional operations teams, onsite support vendors and consultants on projects, policies and procedures. Assists in planning and directing day to day operations and strategic direction of delivery of either a construction project or delivery of operations for a Data Center facility.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Company SLA for reliability and performance is maintained at all times

• Energy management and sustainability of engineering infrastructure

• Evaluating, maintaining and modifying existing installed systems to ensure continuous reliability, performance and efficiency

• Working collaboratively with design engineers, technical facilities teams, operations engineers and other internal staff on the design, specification, installation, testing and setting to work of new systems (within a live and operational environment)

• Negotiating with suppliers and contractors concerning new and installed systems

• Assisting site based Engineers with troubleshooting and problem solving. Point of contact in the event of an incident escalation, in depth fault finding and Root Cause Analysis

• Providing technical advice and consultancy support to local TFM Teams

• Ensure preventative maintenance is performed in accordance with company standards and procedures by performing regular audits and site inspections for critical systems

• Promote and use the company CMMS, Maximo, for the proactive maintenance of critical engineering assets

• Understanding and ensuring compliance with safe working systems, safety regulations and quality standards of both the company and the country in which work is undertaken

• Providing written and verbal instructions to installation contractors / sub-contractors

• Documenting installations, modifications to site equipment and auditing site documentation for accuracy

• Hands-on approach to providing support to site based engineers

• Writing of method statements and risk assessments, regression plans, switching schedules, technical reports and program plans

• Lead Data Centers Physicals and carry out Data Centers Mini-Physicals. Identified action items are actively closed out within each country

• Sign-off for FAT of new equipment/engineering assets and SAT/IST of Systems

• Ensure TFM compliance, process and procedures for Incident Management, Customer Maintenance Requests (CMR), Internal Incident Reporting (IIR) and Customer Incident Report (CIR) processes are followed using Remedy reporting tool

Qualifications

Essential

• Technical degree or equivalent experience. Competent with Mechanical Services, Chillers and HVAC

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• English fluency

• Self-starter, can work on own initiative with good team working skills

• Good working knowledge of MS office including Visio

• Ability and willingness to travel to all European site

• Relevant experience of working within a datacentre environment

• Experience of Chillers and CRACs within a datacentre environment

Desired

• French, Dutch or German language

• Experience of Medium Voltage (may include Authorised Person) and Low Voltage electrical systems

• Experience of Building Management Systems and SCAD

• AutoCAD experience

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form .

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.