HVAC Technician, NA

About Vantage
Vantage 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.

Site Operations Department
The Site Operations Department is responsible for the overall health of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and performance of all data modules in our data centers. The team is staffed 24 x 7 onsite with Critical Facility Technicians (CFTs) on each shift. This team is the face of Vantage to our customers and the first line of defense regarding the uptime of our campus as well as the performance of our customer installations.

Using a Critical Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to plan and track work needed, the Site Operations department performs all preventative and corrective maintenance. Our culture expects and rewards team performance that engages directly with the customers and the facility infrastructure. This is a team that does most of the actual work versus calling upon vendors. As a result, we provide superior service that is faster and more cost effective.

Position Overview
This role is on-site in Québec, QC. We are looking for a HVAC Technician, NA for our data center in Québec who knows what best-in-class service looks like and can make that a reality. This role is an important member of our facilities team where we manage some of the most efficient and cost-effective data center facilities in the industry. The successful candidate for this role will work with a team of other electrical and mechanical-focused technicians performing maintenance and repair for our data center infrastructure.

We take our customer requirements for uptime seriously and keep our facilities maintained to a very high standard to insure uninterrupted service for our customers.

Essential Job Functions

Ensure the optimal functioning of the mechanical and electrical systems of the data center at all times, including preventive and corrective maintenance.

Work under limited supervision, both independently and as part of a team

Manage multiple single or ongoing projects

Respond to safety and emergency situations and maintain a safe and risk-free work environment

Demonstrate discretion and judgment in organizing workflow and adapting to new priorities in a changing environment

Communicate regularly with employees at all levels of the company and with external suppliers

Duties

Operate critical systems (HVAC, industrial chillers, building controls, computer room air handling units, UPS, PDUs, diesel generators, automatic transfer equipment, etc.) and perform their maintenance and repairs

Produce reliability reports to achieve and maintain capacity targets and 100% availability rate

Coordinate and monitor the work of maintenance service providers to ensure the safety of personnel, protect critical facility equipment, and maintain power to the critical load

Create the necessary work methods, standard operating procedures and emergency procedures to which all maintenance activities must comply

Additional duties as assigned by Management

Job Requirements

Practical experience of at least three years, preferably five, in maintenance and repair of industrial electrical and mechanical systems, such as emergency units (generators, fuel distribution, paralleling cabinets), electrical distribution devices (medium voltage/low voltage switch gear and related controls), UPS, HVAC systems, air handlers, computer room cooling systems, and building monitoring and…