Data Center Critical Facilities Engineer (Contols/Electrical)

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Joining our operations team means being at the center of everything – maintaining and evolving critical infrastructure that powers the digital world and delivers real impact for our customers, communities and society. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary:

As part of the Facility team, the Facility Engineer is responsible for supervising and performing facilities engineering work, including (but not limited to), alarm response, fault finding, maintenance, repairs, and modification of equipment relating to controls, electrical, mechanical, fire and security systems.

The role is based at Shenton Park, working Monday-Friday daytime hours with the team evenly sharing the on-call roster. For the balance of the current team, we are interested in speaking with applicants who have service and maintenance work experience with a focus on controls and electrical systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinate and direct vendors on skilled tasks, ensuring that maintenance activities are carried out according to standards and requirements
• Assist with the creation and submission of scripts for maintenance and track the work approval process for service providers
• Update technical files for plants and equipment in cooperation with vendors
• Perform site administration and incident support
• Perform site logs and data gathering for permits
• Identify Single Points of Failure (SPOFs)
• Respond to on-site incidents
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Support on-site staff during incidents
• Ensure that processes and procedures are followed and adhered to
• Work with others to resolve difficult facility incidents and collaborate within the department
• Mentor team members on skilled maintenance activities
• Inform stakeholders of inventory needs
• Perform specialized maintenance across disciplines
• Complete work orders and projects
• Collaborate within a cross functional team

Qualifications, key skills and experience:

• Certificate III/IV in Electrical – Instrumentation or equivalent
• Cert IV Electrotechnology (A-grade electrician)
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering – Electrical, Controls
• Experience At least 2 Years’ workplace experience
• HV Switching desirable
• Knowledge of critical infrastructure equipment such as UPS, ATS, STS, Generators, CRAH, Chillers, BMS, PLC etc.
• Past data center or facility engineering experience desirable
• Basic to intermediate computer skills/ Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel / CAD
• Excellent written and spoken interpersonal communication skills, proficient in English

Benefits of the role:

• Progression and development opportunities within the site and cluster, with a clearly defined career path within the Critical Facilities Engineering teams
• Supportive management and senior engineering specialists to ensure continual professional development
• Salary package including healthcare allowance, annual bonus as well as access to financial, wellbeing and company benefits and consulting + 5 weeks annual leave
• Access to continued learning through our Global Ops Academy

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This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.