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Lead Critical Facilities Engineer, NA

Vantage Data Centers
TX21, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Sept 2025

About the role

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.

Site Operations Department 

The Site Operations Department is responsible for the overall health of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and performance of all data modules in our data centers. The team is staffed 24 x 7 onsite with Critical Facility Engineers (CFEs) on each shift.

This team is the face of Vantage to our customers and the first line of defense regarding the uptime of our campus as well as the performance of our customer installations. Using a Critical Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to plan and track work needed, the Site Operations department performs all preventative and corrective maintenance. Our culture expects and rewards team performance that engages directly with the customers and the facility infrastructure. This is a team that does most of the actual work versus calling upon vendors. As a result, we provide superior service that is faster and more cost effective. 

Position Overview  

We are looking for a Lead Critical Facilities Engineer who knows what best-in-class service looks like and can make that a reality. This role is an important member of our facilities team where we manage some of the most efficient and cost-effective data center facilities in the industry. 

This Lead role will work at our brand new campus in San Antonio, TX.

The successful candidate for this role will lead and work with a team of other electrical and mechanical-focused engineers performing maintenance and repair for our data center infrastructure. We take our customer requirements for uptime seriously and keep our facilities maintained to a very high standard to insure uninterrupted service for our customers. 

If you enjoy working on critical data center systems (UPSs, PDUs, Diesel Generators, ATS equipment and Building Controls), as well as industrial electrical equipment and systems that include power distribution components/wiring, electronic components and lighting systems. If you know the importance of getting it right the first time and not disrupting mission critical data centers. If you enjoy delighting customers with superior service and you have the desire and ability to do so, then please read on! 

Essential Job Functions 

  • Coordination of work efforts/task to ensure seamless operations on shift and between all shifts 

  • Primary escalation point for on shift CFE’s 

  • Assign tasking to on shift CFE’s 

  • Responsible for driving high level task/projects to completion 

  • Support, creation, and review of MOP/SOP/EOP’s for critical work effort evolutions 

  • Work under limited supervision, both independently and within a team environment  

  • Manage multiple one-time and/or ongoing projects 

  • Respond to safety and emergency situations and maintain a safe and secure work environment 

  • Use discretion an

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