Reliability Engineer, Mechanical Systems, NA

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.

Reliability Engineering Department

The Reliability Engineering Team is responsible for the overall operating health of critical systems across Vantage global facilities. For each of the major systems Electrical, Mechanical, and Controls, the Reliability Engineering team is responsible for ensuring success in the commissioning stages of new construction, evaluating and improving the reliability and performance of existing critical infrastructure, sustaining equipment operational availability through maintenance program design, providing ongoing technical support to the Site Operations Teams, as well as providing systems reliability and maintainability feedback to the Design Engineering teams for future design considerations.

Position Overview

This role will be working from our data center campus in New Albany OH (Columbus). This is a hybrid role working 3 days in the office, 2 days home office

The Reliability Engineer for Mechanical Systems is responsible for the overall operational health of critical cooling systems. This responsibility includes oversight of facility acceptance testing, mechanical system maintenance planning, and Facility Operations technical support. Requirements for this position include full familiarity with mechanical systems arrangements, equipment types, system automation and control components. The Reliability Engineer candidate understands component failures and the extended effects of those failures on the larger cooling system as well as appropriate mitigating actions.

Also required is an understanding of cooling system theory, an ability to read drawings and schematics, and an ability to identify likely failure points in design. The mechanical reliability engineer acts as an advisor for Site Operations to reference as needed and has enough experience to train technicians to the level of effective troubleshooting. The mechanical systems Reliability Engineer regularly interfaces the Vantage Design Engineering team, the Automation Systems Group, and Facility Operations teams.

• System Validation and Testing:
  Ensure newly built systems meet design intent and perform without issue during the facility acceptance testing phases of new construction.

• System Validation and Testing:
  Review commissioning plans and ensure the thoroughness of startup testing.

• System Validation and Testing:
  Attend factory witness testing to verify and validate equipment functionality.

• Plan and design maintenance programs to enhance equipment operability and efficiency while minimizing life cycle costs.

• Plan and design maintenance programs to minimize maintenance complexity and reduce maintenance downtime.

• Understand potential equipment failures and provide full technical support to Facility Operations teams in the event of a critical system failure.

• Perform system component upgrades as required to ensure reliability and combat obsolescence.

• Validate maintenance performance by analyzing trends, operational history, and maintenance data.

• Provide systems reliability and maintainability feedback to the Design Engineering teams for future design considerations.

• Work with Design Engineering and Construction teams to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.

• Review construction equipment submittals, identify potential deficiencies, and evaluate maintenance feasibility.

• Develop risk management plans that will anticipate reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.

• Perform Root-Cause Failure Analysis and facilitate corrective action.

• Conduct Critical System Availability and Capacity Analysis, Critical Spare Parts Analysis, Equipment Life Cycle Costing, and End of Useful Life Analysis.

• Provide at-request guidance and technical support to Facility Operators.

• Ensure Site Teams are proficient in system operation and maintenance techniques.

• Work with Site Operations to perform analyses of Asset Utilization, Overall Equipment Efficiency, and Remaining useful life.

• Design appropriate site response procedures based on potential critical system failures.

• Perform Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Analysis to improve system performance.

• Handle additional duties as assigned by Management.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering, or a related field or equivalent field experience preferred.

• 2-3 years…