About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

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.

Innovation Engineering Department
The Innovation Engineering team is responsible for the development of standards, templates, specifications, and owner’s requirements documents in support of Vantage’s global growth, most notably leading the Vantage prototyping effort known as OneDesign.

The team collaborates with all multi-functional teams within Vantage to drive prototypical designs for global deployment to ensure high quality, consistent product deployments in alignment with constantly evolving internal and external customer requirements. In addition to standards development, the Innovation Engineering team is responsible for leading due diligence assessment of merger and acquisition opportunity, and development of design requirements for customer build to suit opportunities.

Position Description

Vantage is looking for an engineer to lead design and engineering for the largest individual cost center within the construction process and become engaged in all technical aspects, with specialized focus on electrical infrastructure. You will be presented with complex engineering challenges and be asked to bring them to resolution with all the tools at your disposal. You will architect, engineer and design new products, system topologies and ensure standards are executable for each project. You will evaluate designs and provide engineering analysis to balance CAPEX and OPEX costs, quality, and speed to market.

Vantage has a very collaborative work environment, and you will need to assume responsibility to interface and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, customers and contractors. Vantage’s D&E team is engaged in the company’s sales process, and we leverage our internal engineers to cater our product offerings to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customer base. This means you will work with the subject matter experts of our customers to translate requirements to tangible solutions. Your role will have a meaningful impact on the bottom-line profitability and success of the company.

This is a remote role and can be based anywhere in the US. Travel is required (see Job Requirements.)

Essential Job Functions

· Architect electrical system topology to select best solutions to meet business objectives around cost, speed, and quality

· Drive innovation of Vantage’s competitive advantage through implementation of emerging technologies, product development, and patents

· Develop and maintain global engineering standards at a program level

· Oversee review process of engineering studies of all types

· Visit job sites for field investigations and coordination meetings

· Aide in technical assessment of assets for merger and acquisition opportunities

Duties

· Provide oversight and review of program level design plans, equipment and system submittals

· Ensure consistent design execution through coordination and handoff to internal and external project direct resources for site adaptation of program prototype

· Coordinate heavily with internal engineering team across all disciplines to ensure products delivered to Operations is streamline and optimized to meet the needs of the business across all functions

· Conduct value engineering analyses, and provide system recommendations based on ROI and IRR analysis

· Participate in product development process flow from idea to implementation and work with team to apply for and obtain patents for the company to retain its IP

· Develop and maintain sustainability benchmarking and innovations to incorporate sustainable technology in a cost-effective manner.

· Attend project design team meetings and ensure product constructed meets engineering standards and specifications

· Work closely with Operations to find a balance between cost-effective solutions & operational sustainability

· Develop and/or set minimum requirements for complete sequence of operations for all designed systems

· Utilize engineering analysis programs and professional judgment to analyze loads, lighting levels, short-circuit currents including:

o Load Analysis and Failure Scenario Calculation

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