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Critical Facility Engineer

El Paso, TX

$105K/yr

The Critical Facility Engineer will be a part of the Facility Operations team responsible for ... Utilize building management systems (BMS) and monitoring tools in a control room environment to ...

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Leased Facility Engineer

Cedar Rapids, IA

$129K/yr

The Leased Facility Engineer (LFE) is a key onsite role within Meta's Global Leased Facility ... center or other Critical Environment (pharma, clean room, medical, power production, etc.

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Leased Facility Engineer

Cedar Rapids, IA · On-site

$129K - $186K/yr

The Leased Facility Engineer (LFE) is a key onsite role within Meta's Global Leased Facility ... other Critical Environment (pharma, clean room, medical, power production, etc.) • Experience ...

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What is the difference between Critical Environment Engineer vs Data Center Technician?

AspectCritical Environment EngineerData Center Technician
CertificationsHVAC, BMS, or specialized environmental certificationsNetworking, hardware, and data center certifications
Work EnvironmentDesign, maintain, and monitor critical environments like data centers and labsInstall, troubleshoot, and repair data center equipment and infrastructure
Employer & IndustryData centers, healthcare, research labsData centers, telecom, IT services

The Critical Environment Engineer focuses on maintaining and optimizing the environmental conditions of critical facilities, ensuring systems like HVAC and BMS operate efficiently. In contrast, the Data Center Technician primarily handles hardware installation, troubleshooting, and repairs within data centers. While both roles work in data center environments, the engineer emphasizes environmental control and system management, whereas the technician concentrates on hardware and equipment maintenance.

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Critical Environment Engineer

QTS Realty Trust, Inc.

Cedar Rapids, IA • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 22 days ago

Job description

The Critical Environment Engineer will be responsible to assist 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 along with the ability to lead through influence and to be a proactive partner with a strong engineering orientation. The ideal candidate will have experience in electrical and mechanical systems and possess knowledge of large-scale data centers (or similar environments). These environments may 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 7X24X365 data center environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES, other duties may be assigned
  • 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 100% uptime and 100% compliance with all customer SLAs.
  • Assist in all site construction activity and installations, in coordination with QTS Development Team, 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 (i.e. OSHA) standards and national electrical and building codes.
  • Interfaces 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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • 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 for this position is required by law due to federal customer contracts.

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

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND 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.
  • Advanced understanding of both mechanical and electrical equipment, systems and design related to data centers.
  • Knowledge of electricity and medium to 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.

TOTAL REWARDS
  • This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program, and other company benefits.
  • This position is bonus eligible.

We conform to all the laws, statutes, and regulations concerning equal employment opportunities and affirmative action. We strongly encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply to all of our job openings. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, age, disability status, Genetic Information & Testing, Family & Medical Leave, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We prohibit retaliation against individuals who bring forth any complaint, orally or in writing, to the employer or the government, or against any individuals who assist or participate in the investigation of any complaint or discrimination claim.
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QTS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to talentacquisition@qtsdatacenters.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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