About Vantage Data Centers

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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 health of critical systems and Site Operations formalized best practices..  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, new and remediation projects, sustaining equipment operational availability through maintenance programming, providing technical support and training to the Site Operations Teams, and providing systems reliability and maintainability feedback to the Design Engineering teams for future design considerations.

Position Description

The Reliability Engineer for Electrical Systems is responsible for the overall operational health of critical cooling systems. This responsibility includes oversight of facility acceptance testing, electrical 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 electrical system as well as appropriate mitigating actions.  Also required is an understanding of electrical system theory, an ability to read drawings and schematics, and an ability to identify likely failure points in design.  The electrical 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 electrical systems Reliability Engineer regularly interfaces the Vantage Design Engineering team, and Facility Operations teams.

Essential Job Functions

• 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 start-up testing

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

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

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

• Provide systems reliability and maintainability feedback to the Procurement teams for future design considerations

• Sustain equipment operational availability thru maintenance programming

• Thorough understanding of critical systems arrangements, potential system failures and extended effects of those failures, and appropriate failure response actions

• Thorough understanding of data center design theory, equipment sequence of operation, and an ability to identify likely failure points in design

Duties

• Work with Design Engineering, Procurement 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.

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

• Attend factory witness testing to verify and validate equipment functionality

• Develop risk management plans that will anticipate reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation, minimize maintenance complexity, and reduce maintenance downtime.

• Work with Site Operations to perform analyses of Asset Utilization, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, and Remaining useful life.

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

• Perform Root-Cause Failure Analysis and facilitate corrective action. Bar -raise for active After-Action Reports (AAR’s)