Critical Facilities Engineer, NA (Data Center)

vantagedc; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantage Data Centers is seeking a Critical Facilities Engineer to support onsite operations in Ashburn, VA. The role is hands-on, involving maintenance and repair of data center infrastructure, working with a team of CFEs across shifts to ensure 100% uptime.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of hands-on experience in mission-critical facilities, with expertise in electrical/mechanical systems, generators, PDUs and building controls.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience in maintenance and repair of industrial electrical and mechanical systems in mission-critical facilities.
• Experience with emergency generators, MV/LV switchgear and related controls.
• Experience with critical PDUs, UPS, switchgear and computer-grade cooling systems.

Responsibilities

• Work under limited supervision, independently or in a team.
• Manage multiple one-time and ongoing projects.
• Respond to safety and emergency situations and maintain a safe work environment.
• Organize workflow and adapt priorities in changing environments.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal stakeholders to maintain uptime.

Skills

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

Generators

UPS

PDU

HVAC

Critical facilities

Tools

CMMS

Job description

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Site Operations Department

The Site Operations Department is responsible for the overall health of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and performance of all data modules in our data centers. The team is staffed 24 x 7 onsite with Critical Facility Engineers (CFEs) on each shift.

This team is the face of Vantage to our customers and the first line of defense regarding the uptime of our campus as well as the performance of our customer installations. Using a Critical Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to plan and track work needed, the Site Operations department performs all preventative and corrective maintenance. Our culture expects and rewards team performance that engages directly with the customers and the facility infrastructure. This is a team that does most of the actual work versus calling upon vendors. As a result, we provide superior service that is faster and more cost effective.

Position Overview

This role is onsite in Ashburn, VA. This is an in-house position.

Ideally we will be seeking experienced talent for Levels II or III. One with data center, mission critical field service or mission critical military experience highly desired (US Navy, US Air Force, US Army, US Marines, US Coast Guard). These are in-house and hands-on roles using your critical thinking talents to troubleshoot and fix equipment vs subbing out the work.

Electrical and mechanical expertise in a non-mission critical field service in cross-industry may be considered, e.g, chiller technician with larger tonnage but non-critical environments or field service in OEM equipment outside of data center. (Johnson Controls, York, Trane, Daikin, Vertiv, Eaton, Liebert, Toshiba, Delta, CAT, ABB, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Petra etc)

We are looking for a Critical Facilities Engineer who knows what best-in-class service looks like and can make that a reality. This role is an important member of our facilities team where we manage some of the most efficient and cost-effective data center facilities in the industry.

The successful candidate for this role will work with a team of other electrical and mechanical-focused engineers performing maintenance and repair for our data center infrastructure. We take our customer requirements for uptime seriously and keep our facilities maintained to a very high standard to insure uninterrupted service for our customers.

If you enjoy working on critical data center systems (UPSs, PDUs, Diesel Generators, ATS equipment and Building Controls), as well as industrial electrical equipment and systems that include power distribution components/wiring, electronic components and lighting systems. If you know the importance of getting it right the first time and not disrupting mission critical data centers. If you enjoy delighting customers with superior service and you have the desire and ability to do so, then please read on!

Essential Job Functions

• Work under limited supervision, both independently and within a team environment


• Manage multiple one-time and/or ongoing projects


• Respond to safety and emergency situations and maintain a safe and secure work environment


• Use discretion and judgment in organizing workflow and adapting as priorities are modified due to a changing environment


• Frequent contact with employees at all levels of the organization; frequent external contact with vendors

Duties

• Operate, perform maintenance and service repairs on critical Data Center systems (UPS, PDU, Diesel Generators, ATS equipment and Building Controls, Chillers, CRAH, ETC)


• Develop reliability reports to ensure availability and capacity targets are achieved and maintained with 100% uptime


• Coordinate, and oversee all maintenance vendors to ensure personnel safety, protect the Facility's critical equipment, and maintain power to the critical load


• Create required MOPs (Method of Procedure), SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and EOPs (Emergency Operating Procedures) to ensure all maintenance activities are performed in accordance to them


• Additional duties as assigned by Management

Job Requirements

Minimum 3 years, 5+ years preferred, of "hands on" experience with the maintenance and repair of industrial electrical and mechanical systems in mission-critical facilities to include; emergency generators (Generators, Fuel Delivery systems and Parallel Switchgear), electrical distribution (MV/LV switchgear and associated controls), critical and essential PDUs, UPS, switchgear, HVAC, air handling units, computer grade cooling systems, and