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.

Vantage Data Centers is seeking In-House Electrical/ Mechanical Engineers to work as Chiller Technicians or Field Service on our Electrical/Mechanical Equipment. You would be a direct employee of Vantage and have direct impact on our critical facilities. One already an expert in OEM equipment? We would love to chat with you. We are more hands on than other data centers and that is what makes us unique and a more agile company. Brings your expertise: Generators, Fuel Delivery systems and Parallel Switchgear, UPS, PDU, Diesel Generators, ATS equipment and Building Controls, Chillers, CRAH, PDUs, UPS, switchgear, HVAC, air handling units, computer grade cooling systems, and building monitoring/control systems.

Other titles:

Chiller Tech, Chiller Technician, Field Service Engineer, Field Service Technician. Climate Control Engineer, HVAC Service Technician.

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 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.

The successful candidate for this role will 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!

This position will be based on-site in San Antonio, TX (west side of Metro)

Essential Job Functions

• 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 and judgment in organizing workflow and adapting as priorities are modified due to a changing environment

• Frequent contact with employees at all levels of the organization; frequent external contact with vendors

Duties

• Operate, perform maintenance and service repairs on critical Data Center systems (UPS, PDU, Diesel Generators, ATS equipment and Building Controls, Chillers, CRAH, ETC)

• Develop reliability reports to ensure availability and capacity targets are achieved and maintained with 100% uptime

• Coordinate, and oversee all