Sr Engineer, Critical Facilities

Job Title : Sr Engineer, Critical Facilities

Duration : 12 Months

Temp to Perm to the right candidate with Extension possible)

Shift Hours : M-F 8-5

Location : Bellevue, WA (Onsite)

THIS IS A LAB, so being able to conceptualize with users to solve facility related challenges in a development environment with a constant demand for innovation and collaboration for sustainable solutions.

Decription :

• The Sr. Critical Facility Engineer is accountable for operational, technical, and strategic oversight of the critical infrastructure and maintenance operations.
• Critical portfolio includes Data Centers, Mobile Switching Centers, Call Centers, Distributed Antenna System, Point-of-Presence, Fiber Regeneration facilities.
• Primary responsibilities include oversight of each critical facility's electrical, mechanical, life safety and critical back-up systems.
• Interact with support teams (CFE&I, Compliance, Legal, Procurement, Network Operations) both internal and external and with local contractors and vendors.
• Maximum emphasis is to be placed on the critical environment operational continuity while ensuring the integrity and reliability of the critical function is not compromised.
• Focus on KPI goals and objectives and maintain a strategic view in managing operations for the infrastructure.
• Ability to write and train technical documentation.
• Ability to write and train processes.
• Strong skills in vendor relationship management and communication, critical engineering practices, organizational savvy, people management and team leadership, and the ability to identify and manage variation in metrics.

Essential Functions :

• Manages the operational execution of all processes and procedures for critical facilities, including work process and authorization, incident management, and routine operations & maintenance process and procedures to maintain 100% uptime, areas include : electrical, mechanical, building monitoring and control.
• Reviews, understands, and evaluates the engineering design and operational performance and aspects of critical facilities systems and equipment.
• Must be able to immediately recognize system shortcomings and respond to operational and emergency situations.
• Provides training, support, and guidance to expand team's capabilities and ensure technical staff is performing work appropriately and is trained on compliance, life / safety programs, and critical environment process and procedures.
• Works with teams to ensure that all proper closeout and commissioning procedures are followed including the collection, distribution, and storage of documentation.
• Participates in critical facility annual planning activities including, reviewing, remodeling, new system construction, facility infrastructure upgrades.
• Use CMMS tool to track all work progress and completion; including review of PM reports and recommended repairs.
• Provides input to annual financial plans for operating expense and capital, and support account by identifying unforeseen emergency expenditures throughout the year.
• Performs site inspections and tours documenting deficiencies and recommendations for improvements or upgrades.
• Maintains accurate asset accounting of infrastructure equipment.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and dynamic customer demands while balancing facility risk.
• Can be challenging particularly at the LAB as opposed to a traditional stable hardened critical facility.
• Ability to communicate at all levels of leadership and engineering customers to navigate understanding at each level.
• Ability to effectively work with an extremely culturally diverse customer base to support the client Diversity and Inclusion principles.

What does a typical day look like?

• Site walks and review and QA ongoing tickets (Maintenance, break / fix, projects) to ensure vendor and customer needs are met.
• Direct and manage vendors.
• Vigilant safety awareness.
• Address issues found or reported to the solution.
• Construction and project meetings initiating, contributing and collaborating on solutions as a service and / or customer.
• On call rotation off hours for emergencies affecting the facility.
• Operation of the facility infrastructure in collaboration with vendors.
• Reports as requested for routine, periodic and dynamic need.
• Budgetary awareness dynamically applied to costs.
• At least 10-20% time devoted to moving the bar forward.

Qualifications :

• 4-7 years' Experience in mechanical / HVAC, electrical, or a combination of the two.
• 4-7 years' Experience in data center facilities operations, working with equipment mentioned above, preferably in the telecommunications industry.
• 4-7 years' Experience managing vendor work and quality control.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

• Communication
• Project Management
• Critical Portfolio Management

Preferred background / prior work experience

3-7 years in direct experience operating, designing, constructing, maintaining and managing large scale production data centers / critical facilities at the enterprise level with understanding and leadership in engineering in the disciplines needed to sustain continuous availability.

Desired :

• Certified Reliability leader
• Uptime Institute
• LEED, CFM, FMP, MCE

Education :

Bachelor's degree Engineering, facilities, or related discipline or equivalent experience preferred.

General / Physical Requirements :

• This position requires mobility (standing, walking, climbing, etc.); the ability to get from one place to another.
• This position requires sitting, bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, climbing, balancing, crawling, reaching, grasping, fine manipulation, keyboarding.
• Ability to push / pull and lift / carry 25 lbs.
• Requires ability to work in an environment that has frequent exposure to noise.

Skillset Matrix Notes :

At an enterprise scale CRITICAL facility : OPERATIONS andCONSTRUCTION / PLANNING from building to end device / user :

AC and DC power, UPS, Generators, rectifiers, low to medium voltage supporting continuous availability.

• Various high performance high density cooling systems supporting critical and people spaces.
• Building envelope / property management.
• Fire systems (pre-action, gaseous, VESDA).
• Building management systems (BMS).
• Security camera / badge systems.
• Project Management with A / E, vendors, contractors, employees from large scale consulting to individual product / user.
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