Data Center Facilities Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to all aspects of data center operations including the operation, maintenance and repair of all mission critical equipment and systems supporting a 24x7 data center operation to achieve 99.9% uptime and 100% compliance with all customer SLAs.
• Perform complex electrical maintenance, diagnostics, and repairs on power systems to prevent downtime, utilizing DCIM and BMS tools.
• 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.
• Assist in the technical review and input on plans for all significant planned and emergency maintenance events for the facility.
• Ensure compliance with NFPA 70E, OSHA, and local electrical codes to maintain a safe working environment.
• Review and approve electrical upgrades, ensuring capacity planning aligns with facility infrastructure capacity.
• Interface with contractors and vendors for maintenance, installation, and commissioning of new equipment.
• Assess Electrical and Mechanical infrastructure in Manufacturing data centers.
• Design electrical infrastructure solutions.
• Generate recommendations based on site assessments.
• Drive & implement projects to increase current facility capacity, efficiency, sustainability & reliability.
• Work with other teams (Networking, Logistics, Safety, Security, Business leaders) and operating partners to coordinate projects, manage capacity, and optimize safety, performance, reliability, sustainability and efficiency.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Experience:
  
  3+ years of experience in high-availability, mission-critical environments (data centers, hospitals, or manufacturing).
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Knowledge of power distribution systems, UPS units, ATS, and emergency generators.
• Soft Skills:
  
  Strong leadership, collaboration, and the ability to manage risk under pressure.
• Certifications:
  
  Industry‑specific certifications (e.g., Data Center Certifications or critical power certifications) are often preferred.
• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
  Ability to develop solutions and create technical plans on projects.
• Ability and willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to improve quality, reliability and continuously drive down operating costs.
• Understanding of both mechanical and electrical equipment, systems and design related to data centers.
• Knowledge of electricity and medium and low voltage electrical distribution systems.
• Experience with emergency backup systems (generators, UPS, battery backup).
• Knowledge of preventative maintenance and work order software systems, single line drawings, critical scripted work, and sequence of operations.

• power distribution systems
• UPS units
• ATS
• emergency generators
• electrical maintenance
• diagnostics
• design electrical infrastructure solutions
• preventative maintenance
• technical plans development capacity planning

• leadership
• collaboration
• risk management under pressure
• creative problem solving
• innovative solutions
• communication
• team coordination
• project management
• sustainability focus
• efficiency optimization

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Data Center Certifications
• critical power certifications
• NFPA 70E certification
• OSHA certification
• local electrical codes compliance
• project management certification
• safety certification
• electrical engineering license
• maintenance management certification