Senior Critical Environment Engineer

Senior Critical Environment Engineer

The Senior Critical Environment Engineer will be responsible to assist with high degree of complexity engineering related to coordination, installation, and integration aspects of electrical and mechanical systems, operations, and maintenance for critical and non-critical electrical & mechanical systems alike within the QTS portfolio. This role requires expert planning skills along with the ability to lead through influence and to be a proactive partner with a strong engineering orientation. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in electrical and mechanical systems and possess knowledge of large-scale data centers (or similar environments). These environments may include state-of-the-art electrical distribution systems, static UPS, emergency standby generation, fire alarm/suppression, monitoring systems, as well as chiller and large-scale cooling systems. This role requires work hours to support a 7X24X365 data center environment.

Responsibilities, other duties may be assigned:

• Provide technical support to all aspects of data center operations including the operation, maintenance and repair of all mission critical equipment and systems supporting a 24x7 data center operation to achieve 100% uptime and 100% compliance with all customer SLAs.
• Assist in all site construction activity and installations, in coordination with QTS Development Team, external construction resources, to ensure system design, installation and testing adhere to operational standards. Witness testing of all equipment during commissioning and validate sequence of operations and receipt of all operational documentation.
• Provide technical support for all local customer installations, in coordination with key stakeholders to coordinate site technical solutions and drawings for customer move-ins and turn-ups, including deployments and power circuit installations.
• Attends factory witness tests to ensure supplier compliance with QTS standards.
• Provide and evaluate ongoing assessment of infrastructure and operations as required by QTS policies and procedures.
• Supports implementation and audit local standard operating procedures in conjunction with our Corporate Audit teams.
• Collaborate and advise on various accreditation, certification and compliance initiatives as may be required by QTS.
• Maintain compliance with local health & safety (i.e. OSHA) standards and national electrical and building codes.
• Interfaces with vendors, QTS Engineering, QTS Development and peer operations organizations.
• Ensure adherence to all standard operating procedures (SOP), method of procedures (MOP), and emergency operating procedures (EOP) established for the critical environments, as well as the formal change control process.
• Participates in the scheduling, coordination and completion of all significant planned and emergency maintenance events for the facility and ensure these activities are executed in a controlled and proven method to ensure the reliability of the critical loads supported by these systems.
• Acts as the approval authority for the Change Management Process for preventative and corrective maintenance. Advises and collaborates with operations for continuous improvement of CAB processes.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or similar HVAC or critical power certifications OR equivalent professional experience. Seven or more years of direct experience with engineering related activities in a technical or critical environment (data center, nuclear power, hospital, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, industrial/commercial field engineering). HVAC or critical power certifications or equivalent professional experience. Ability to travel up to 50% to other Data Center locations as required. US Citizenship for this position is required by law due to federal customer contracts.

Preferred Qualifications

Ten or more years of direct experience with facilities engineering related activities in a data center environment.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Must be fluent with and possess an excellent working knowledge of Data Center Critical Environments. Ability to develop solutions and create technical plans as well as execute plans on complex projects as needed. Ability and willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to improve quality / reliability and continuously drive down operating costs. Advanced understanding of both mechanical and electrical equipment, systems and design related to data centers. Extensive knowledge of electricity and medium / low voltage electrical distribution systems. Extensive experience with emergency backup systems (generators, UPS, battery backup). Knowledge of preventative maintenance and work order software systems.