The Data Center Mechanical Facility Engineer will be responsible for Data Center Mechanical Engineering Operations within a Data Center including risk management and mitigation, corrective and preventative maintenance of critical infrastructure, vendor management and metric reporting. He is responsible for ensuring that all Mechanical, Pump, and Generator equipment within the data centre operates at peak efficiency. This involves both planned preventative maintenance of equipment, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues.
They are expected to be a singular focal point for all Mechanical-related facility operations within a given data centre. Data centre equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. This equipment includes but is not limited to, stand-by diesel generators, Secondary Pumps, Irrigation pumps and building automation systems.
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- The primary responsibility of the position is to manage (operationally) the data centre’s mechanical (cooling and Plumbing) infrastructure.
- Ability to collaborate with the project team to establish new infrastructure equipment standards and operational methods for all the data centres and to ensure that existing standards are implemented.
- Hold primary responsibility for the maintenance of data centre mechanical equipment from HVAC to complex piping and plumbing works.
- Using industry best practices to ensure proper cooling analysis such as CFD analysis.
- Liaise with the Operations Management team, facilities, IT teams, and procurement to ensure that all projects progress smoothly, on schedule, and within budget.
- These projects include new installations, operational changes, scheduled maintenance, and equipment upgrades.
- Manage contracts related to data centre infrastructure, liaise with legal on contracts, and work directly with contractors to ensure timely completion of all work.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and new technologies related to cooling, monitoring systems, and floor layout.
- Ensure best practices and global standards are in place for the data centre.
- Perform daily checks of Mechanical Pumps, HVAC, BMS, VRV, VRF and life safety systems.
- Collect and analyze data on various computing systems, maintain historical records, and provide management with statistical analysis as requested.
- Monitor and adjust cooling in the data centre using DCIM and BMS to maintain optimal operating and environmental conditions.
- Generate job cards & incident management tickets for the Data Center facility.
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