About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Reliability Engineering Department

The Reliability Engineering Team is responsible for the overall operating health of critical systems across Vantage global facilities.  For each of the major systems Electrical, Mechanical, and Controls, the Reliability Engineering team is responsible for ensuring success in the commissioning stages of new construction, evaluating and improving the reliability and performance of existing critical infrastructure, sustaining equipment operational availability through maintenance program design, providing ongoing technical support to the Site Operations Teams, as well as providing systems reliability and maintainability feedback to the Design Engineering teams for future design considerations.

Position Overview

This role can work hybrid from our data center campus in Abilene, TX or potentially remote from Dallas/Fort Worth, TX with frequent travel to Abilene, TX.

One must reside near a major metro areas with large airports. Ideally to work from one of our data center campuses-- Phoenix, AZ, Abilene, TX, Ashburn, VA, Atlanta, GA.

This is ideally a hybrid role working 3 days in the office, 2 days home office.

This particular role will be heavily involved in the review of equipment submittals, factory witness testing and one must understand design engineering as well as functionality of data center equipment as it relates to design. This particular role will be heavily involved in our large GT1 sites in west TX and Wisconsin. Having access to a major airport will be highly desired or within driving distance.

The Reliability Engineer for Mechanical Systems is responsible for the overall operational health of critical cooling systems. This responsibility includes oversight of facility acceptance testing, mechanical system maintenance planning, and Facility Operations technical support. Requirements for this position include full familiarity with mechanical systems arrangements, equipment types, system automation and control components. The Reliability Engineer candidate understands component failures and the extended effects of those failures on the larger cooling system as well as appropriate mitigating actions. Also required is an understanding of cooling system theory, an ability to read drawings and schematics, and an ability to identify likely failure points in design. The mechanical reliability engineer acts as an advisor for Site Operations to reference as needed and has enough experience to train technicians to the level of effective troubleshooting. The mechanical systems Reliability Engineer regularly interfaces the Vantage Design Engineering team, the Automation Systems Group, and Facility Operations teams.

Essential Job Functions

System Validation and Testing:

• Ensure newly built systems meet design intent and perform without issue during the facility acceptance testing phases of new construction.

• Review commissioning plans and ensure the thoroughness of startup testing.

• Attend factory witness testing to verify and validate equipment functionality.

Maintenance and Reliability:

• Design maintenance programs to enhance equipment operability and efficiency while minimizing life cycle costs.

• Design maintenance programs to minimize maintenance complexity and reduce maintenance down time.

• Understand potential equipment failures and provide full technical support to Facility Operations teams in the event of a critical system failure.

• Perform system component upgrades as required to ensure reliability and combat obsolescence.

• Validate maintenance performance by analyzing trends, operational history, and maintenance data.

Design and Construction Collaboration:

• Provide systems reliability and maintainability feedback to the Design Engineering teams for future design considerations.

• Work with Design Engineering and Construction teams to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.

• Review construction equipment submittals, identify potential deficiencies, and evaluate maintenance feasibility.

Risk Management and Analysis:

• Develop risk management