Data Center Chief Engineer: Reliability & Ops Leader

Amazon Inc.; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 96,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Chief Engineer to ensure electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety systems operate at peak efficiency.

You will oversee planned maintenance, perform daily corrective work, and respond to emergencies, acting as the technical focal point for facilities at a given data center. As part of AWS Infrastructure Services, you will lead a diverse team of engineers and technicians, coordinate with vendors, travel between data centers as needed, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of electrical and mechanical facilities maintenance, or 3+ years of electrical facilities maintenance and 2+ years of mechanical facilities maintenance experience
• 3+ years of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, and Excel experience
• Experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings
• Experience in data center engineering or operations
• Construction or project management experience
• Experience leading technical teams through daily operations and maintenance evolutions
• Can bend or twist the body into unusual positions while working

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary escalation point for all facilities-related issues. Oversee operation and management of routine and emergency services on a variety of critical systems such as switchgear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution equipment, chillers, cooling towers, computer room air handlers, building monitoring systems, etc.
• Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures and troubleshooting of facility within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Provide training and guidance to Engineering Operations Technicians and are responsible for working with Facility Manager (FM) to set team culture.
• Create and deploy new standard practices for Engineering Operations Technicians, Chief Engineers, and vendor support teams
• May assist in the building out of new facilities and assist in projects to increase current facility efficiency
• Working outside of normal business hours for routine maintenance as required, including responding to out-of-hours emergency calls.
• Communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience.
• Work with IT managers and other business leaders to coordinate projects, manage capacity, and optimize plant safety, performance, reliability and efficiency
• Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to by vendor and Amazon staff
• Establish building performance benchmarks, conduct analyses, and prepare reports on all aspects of the critical facility of operations and maintenance.
• Utilize Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and other basic administrative tools to perform day-to-day tasks

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Mechanical maintenance

MS Office

Engineering drawings

Procedures writing

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Word

Excel

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Data Center Chief Engineer to ensure electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety systems operate at peak efficiency.

You will oversee planned maintenance, perform daily corrective work, and respond to emergencies, acting as the technical focal point for facilities at a given data center. As part of AWS Infrastructure Services, you will lead a diverse team of engineers and technicians, coordinate with vendors, travel between data centers as needed, and