Lead Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Operations Engineer

Position Title:

Lead Engineer

We are hiring a Lead Engineer the role will give you the opportunity to expand your skills and experience working on mission critical infrastructure facilities operations for the largest wholesale data center provider in the world. We offer a clean stable environment where there is a lot of variety and always something to do and where youll work at least 40 hours per week.

If you are looking for an exciting job with great benefits in a company that will provide you with a lot of opportunity to learn grow and expand your skillset for a high-demand role then this could be the right place for you.

• As a Lead Engineer youll work with your peers to ensure coverage 365 days per year 7 days per week 24 hours per day. Youll spend most of your days on a variety of interesting activities including walking the facility and inspecting infrastructure systems performing routine maintenance supervising the facility assessing needs monitoring construction projects and completing repairs as needed.
• You will also help to gather information and take readings to fill in the parameters on daily spreadsheets.
• The service you provide will be to the underlying support systems (power cooling etc) for customers computers so you will not be expected to do any computer maintenance—the customers do that for themselves.
• Monitoring building infrastructure systems.
• Troubleshooting and repairing building infrastructure systems HVAC system electrical systems and more.
• Performing preventive maintenance on all building equipment.
• Assembling and commissioning Data Center equipment.
• Preparing Change Management Forms and Methods of Procedure (MOPs).
• Scheduling maintenance procedures with vendors.
• Ensuring compliance with all safety procedures and use of protective equipment.
• Responding quickly to emergency situations (fire evacuation equipment failure etc.) and customer concerns as needed.

To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have:

• An Associates degree (AA/AS) or an equivalent combination of education and experience; data center experience is strongly preferred.
• A trade license or certification acquired through technical education/training.
• A facilities maintenance certification.
• Experience working with mission critical data equipment and the willingness to work in a fast-paced mission critical environment.
• Strong HVAC mechanical and electrical skills and experience.
• An understanding of computer systems and skill with Microsoft Office products.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to follow instructions and processes precisely and carefully.
• The willingness to work 2nd or 3rd shift at least one weekend day each week and unscheduled overtime as needed to complete projects or break-fixes.
• The ability to walk around a good deal of the time to perform inspections to do some work outdoors in the weather if needed and to lift heavy objects.

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. Platform

DIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.

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Our Operations team keeps our customers infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.

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