Job Title:Sr. Critical Facility Engineer-Datacenter and HVAC
Location: Bellevue, WA 98006 (Onsite)
Contract: 12 Months (Extension possible)- Permanent employment to the right candidate.
Job Description:
The Sr. Critical Facility Engineer is accountable for operational, technical, and strategic oversight of the critical infrastructure and maintenance operations.
Critical portfolio includes Data Centers, Mobile Switching Centers, Call Centers, Distributed Antenna System, Point-of-Presence, Fiber Regeneration facilities.
Primary responsibilities include oversight of each critical facility's electrical, mechanical, life safety and critical back-up systems.
Interact with support teams (CFEandI, Compliance, Legal, Procurement,Network Operations) both internal and external and with local contractors and vendors.
Maximum emphasis is to be placed on the critical environment operational continuity while ensuring the integrity and reliability of the
critical function is not compromised.
Focus on KPI goals and objectives and maintain a strategic view in managing operations for the infrastructure.
Ability to write and train technical documentation.
At an CRITICAL facility: OPERATIONS and CONSTRUCTION/PLANNING from building to end device/user:
AC and DC power, UPS, Generators, rectifiers, low to medium voltage supporting continuous availability.
Various high-performance high-density cooling systems supporting critical and people spaces.
Building envelope/property management.
Fire systems (pre-action, gaseous, VESDA).
Building management systems (BMS).
Security camera/badge systems.
Project Management with A/E, vendors, contractors, employees from large scale consulting to individual product/user.
Being able to conceptualize with users to solve facility related challenges in a development environment with a constant demand for innovation and collaboration
for sustainable solutions.
Site walks. Review and QA ongoing tickets (Maintenance, break/fix, projects) to ensure vendor and customer needs are met.
Direct and manage vendors. Vigilant safety awareness.
Address issues found or reported to the solution.
Construction and project meetings initiating, contributing and collaborating on solutions as a service and/or customer.
On call rotation off hours for emergencies affecting the facility.
Operation of the facility infrastructure in collaboration with vendors.
Reports as requested for routine, periodic and dynamic need.
Budgetary awareness dynamically applied to costs.
At least 10-20% time devoted to moving the bar forward.
Direct experience operating, designing, constructing, maintaining and managing large scale production data centers/critical facilities at the enterprise level
with understanding and leadership in engineering in the disciplines needed to sustain continuous availability.
Priority soft skills Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and dynamic customer demands while balancing facility risk.
Can be challenging particularly at the onsite as opposed to a traditional stable hardened critical facility.
Ability to communicate at all levels of leadership and engineering customers to navigate understanding at each level.
Ability to effectively work with an extremely culturally diverse customer base to support the Diversity and Inclusion principles.
Experience in mechanical/HVAC, electrical, or a combination of the two.
Experience in data center facilities operations, working with equipments.