Design Principal, Engineering Development; Mechanical

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

• The Design Principal, Engineering Development (Mechanical), reporting to the Director, Global Engineering Development, has responsibility for:
• Global mechanical engineering direction of Equinix design through continued development of Equinix’s Reference Designs
• Evaluation of new products and engineering approaches, supporting the Innovation incubation process, for incorporation into the Reference Design on reaching maturity
• Supports Regional Design teams with project implementation of Reference Design
• Provides subject matter expert direction to the Major Capital Equipment (MCE) team dealing with portfolio-wide procurement of mechanical equipment
• Engages with key customers to ascertain their continuously evolving design requirements and directs Reference Design configurations to meet those customer design requirements
• Design Process
• Owns and leads a design process, interacting with Architectural, MEP, and other design partners to deliver a portfolio of world class datacenters with a strong focus on technical excellence, mission critical resilience and cost management
• Reviews and contributes to the development of globally standardized tools, techniques and processes for the management and reporting of the design process
• Works with peers in other regions to drive consistency and technical excellence on design and delivery practices and methodologies
• Thinks and acts in a global manner, considering the applicability of any design decision, innovations or standards changes for all regions
• Conducts the master planning of expansion portfolio using global design standards and templates; incorporating regional information to apply these to the inception of projects
• Generates project visualization, initial model using reference design templates and cost estimate for business case inception
• Liaises with regional team to incorporate local infrastructure into the design
• Liaises with commercial management team regionally and globally to assist business case generation
• Liaises with regional team to procure local variations on equipment where Reference Design equipment selections are not available
• Prepares regional-specific and customer-specific configurations of the Reference Design, reacting to local market conditions and customer requirements
• Cross-Functional Co-ordination
• Maintains interpersonal relationships with internal technical staff, external design consulting partners, construction management, commercial management, and regional P&L holders to ensure appropriate stakeholder exposure and buy in to Data Center projects
• Appropriately leverages the center of excellence teams and more senior Design staff to augment their individual technical expertise to ensure all facets of the datacenter design are adequately considered and approved
• Manages internal and external resources via their influence and outstanding competencies
• Partners with Global Operations, Global Design Standards, and other internal Equinix teams to achieve alignment on design details to support the creation of multi-discipline Reference packages
• Partners with Procurement teams in the evaluation and selection of mechanical equipment and provides lifecycle support of selected equipment to Global Operations, applying lifecycle feedback to selection process
• Supports xScale and Global Account Management in conversations with key customers on design requirements and keeping customers updated on Equinix’s design roadmap
• Project Management
• Indirectly manages experienced electrical and mechanical engineering staff in the Independent Technical Review to deliver a portfolio of world-class…