Data Center Capacity Engineer Staff

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. 

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

Joining our operations team means being at the center of everything – maintaining and evolving critical infrastructure that powers the digital world and delivers real impact for our customers, communities and society. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary

Performs the planning, system design, system implementation, system maintenance and support. Leads small scale projects and the roll out of engineering initiatives. Assists with the development of engineering design standards, policies and procedures. Effectively interacts with other internal and external teams, including the design engineering, site engineering, construction management and regional operations teams, onsite support vendors and consultants on projects, policies and procedures. Assists in planning and directing day to day operations and strategic direction of delivery of either a construction project or delivery of operations for an IBX facility.

Responsibilities

Project Management

• Assists in leading and managing projects or other design and engineering initiatives

• Provides project leadership in ensuring projects or other design and engineering initiatives are meeting or exceeding company expectations

System Operation and Work Practices (including Capacity Planning)

• Performs complex maintenance and repairs on engineering systems, and develops SOWs for complex engineering system maintenance, replacement, design and construction projects

• Ability to apply knowledge of Equinix processes and procedures to resolve non-routine issues (i.e., understands the historical background of how equipment settings were standardized and recommend changes to settings when an issue occurs which requires a setting to be changed)

• Utilizes safe working practices at an expert level (e.g. can apply procedure for lockout/tag out, can explain MSDS, etc.)

• Evaluates and assures the safe working practices of others

• Works with the capacity and site engineering teams to identify power and cooling limitations, discuss potential modifications and develop solutions to overcome limitations

Training

• Shadows manager in the training and development of new staff

• Acquires knowledge by expanding experience with systems, vendor training and shadowing others

• Is SME with some systems and trains others inside and outside of the group

Contract Administration

• Executes effective contract administration procedures including generation, review, and monitoring of contracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and other pertinent documents and documentation

Leadership and Communications (including Vendor Mgmt.)

• Supports in mentoring junior team members

• Supports in directing all internal and external project team members

• Assists in directing external vendors per project or initiatives such general contractors, A&E design teams, commissioning agents, equipment suppliers, etc.

• Expert level communication to include cross functional SOP development and relevant technical writing

• Interactions are primarily to exchange information between departments within the organization

• May include executive level communications in standardized templates

Policy & Procedure Development and Adherence

• Provides feedback on policies and procedures

• Participates in review of policy and procedure documents

• Assures adherence to developed standards and policy through review of documentation, participation in commissioning activities, design summits and Data Center physicals

Data & Drawing Management

• Works with site operations to address discrepancies with documentation of fac