Commissioning Engineer, AMER-West ACx

Data Center Commissioning Engineer (CxE)

As a Data Center Commissioning Engineer (CxE), you will be part of a highly creative, efficient team tasked with tackling fascinating and challenging problems building and supporting the operations of Amazon owned data centers. The Amazon Commissioning team (ACx) understands, evaluates, defines and manages the expectations of construction quality in accordance to engineering designs to meet the customer requirements. The CxE is responsible for supporting vendors, contractors, and other teams involved in the construction and commissioning of various systems such as:

• Medium and low voltage power systems
• Generators
• UPS
• HVAC (Air Handlers / Exhaust Fans / VFD)
• Chilled Water Systems
• Building Management systems (BMS)
• Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS)
• Testing and balancing
• Pumps and Hydronic systems

Physical Requirements:

• Walk job sites in uneven terrain
• Work at heights and from ladders
• Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Lift and/or move up to 49 pounds; and participate in group lifts for 50 pounds or more
• Carry objects weighing up to 49 pounds for short distances
• Work shifts longer than eight hours in duration with potential for night and weekends
• Perform physical tasks throughout the day without becoming overly tired
• Ability to manipulate small wires and objects easily
• Work in a noisy environment
• Work in environments that are colder or hotter than a normal office environment

Additional

Job Requirements:

• Ability and willingness to travel domestic and internationally for up to 80% of the year.
• Required to provide personal transportation for meetings and job visits away from the office; reimbursed.
• US Citizenship required

Key job responsibilities include:

• Providing testing and validation oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
• Reviewing design documents, leading Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and managing third-party commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing.
• Taking ownership of their projects' successes by diving deep to resolve technical issues and having bias for action to address ever changing schedule and coordination demands onsite.
• Communicating lessons learned and continuously collaborating on program improvements.
• Providing multi-discipline input into the scheduling, test script development, designing, and planning of projects.
• Reviewing component submittal packages, leading Factory Witness Testing (FWT), performing system level and integrated system testing.
• Continuously auditing activities to ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements.
• Responsible for comprehensive weekly reporting of status of all ongoing projects and lessons learned to continually improve the quality of our program.
• Coverage of multiple inflight projects and tight timelines.

A day in the life:

• The CxE works across AWS engineering, capacity delivery, operations, and contractor teams to coordinate site activities, prioritize tasks, and ensure each issue has a clear path to resolution.
• The CxE manages the project commissioning vendor whose primary scope is to identify issues, determine criticality, propose solutions, and document their findings.
• If project turnover is at risk, the CxE escalates to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Upon project completion, the CxE will communicate lessons learned to help peers on similar projects in flight and participate in initiatives that drive improvement to the commissioning program.