Critical Environment Engineer

Benefits

• Roth and Traditional 401(k) matching contributions with immediate vesting
• Every employee is bonus or commission eligible
• Generous PTO, Paid Volunteer Days, and Floating Holidays
• Stock Purchase Plan (SPP)
• 11 paid holidays annually/holiday compensation when worked
• Pet and Legal Insurance
• Q-Rest Sabbatical Program
• Q-Anniversary Service Award Program
• Parental Leave for primary and secondary caregivers
• Military Benefits Package
• QTS Charitable Matching Gift Program
• QTS Scholarship for Employee Dependents
• QTS Crisis Fund
• Wellness Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

The Critical Environment Engineer will be responsible for assisting with the 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 keen planning skills, the ability to influence, and proactive partnership with a strong engineering orientation. The ideal candidate will have experience in electrical and mechanical systems and knowledge of large‑scale data centers (or similar environments).

These environments 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 7×24×365 data center environment.

• Provide technical support to all aspects of data center operations including operation, maintenance and repair of all mission critical equipment and systems supporting a 24×7 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 and 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.
• Provide and evaluate ongoing assessment of infrastructure and operations as required by QTS policies and procedures.
• Supports implementation and audit local standard operating procedures.
• Support various accreditation, certification and compliance initiatives as may be required by QTS.
• Maintain compliance with local health & safety (e.g., OSHA) standards and national electrical and building codes.
• Interface 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.
• Assists in the technical review and input on plans for all significant planned and emergency maintenance events for the facility; ensures these activities are executed in a controlled and proven method to ensure the reliability of the critical loads supported by these systems.
• Assists in the Change Management Process to provide approval for preventative and corrective maintenance, in accordance with established QTS processes.

• Bachelor’s degree or professional equivalent.
• Five 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 required by law due to federal customer contracts.

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

• Ability to develop…