Critical Facilities Technician

Position 1 - Second Shift:    2:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m

Position 2 - Third Shift:  10:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m

Schedule: Seven days a week

The Critical Facilities Engineer provides operational integrity of the network operations center (NOC)’s electrical, mechanical, fire safety, fire suppression, plumbing, building envelope and other facility systems.  Ensures that operations center problems are identified and resolved quickly and with quality.  Responsible for performing preventative maintenance in accordance with established schedules and in compliance with all codes, industry, and company standards. Responsible to assist in the development of infrastructure improvements, oversight of vendors while working in and around the operation’s center campus.

• Through use of the CMMS, perform daily checks to determine operational functionality of hyper scale electrical and mechanical systems, ensure NFPA regulations that pertain to critical facilities are met, provide immediate response to systems in trouble or alarm, provide oversight to third party vendors, moving such systems off-line and execute redundant systems, and provide oversight to heavy equipment including diesel-fueled emergency generators, as needed
• Performs preventative and corrective maintenance for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and other building infrastructure systems. Monitors the multiple modern building automation systems to act upon change requests, track performance and detect anomalies.
• Responsible for the safe, professional, and operationally sound manipulation of electrical. Ensure the SOPs that support systems in high-availability, high-risk, or high-reliability environments are built, reviewed and utilized to support the manipulation of the production loads.  Ensure adherence to OSHA safety standards while maintaining documentation for audits, inspections, and certification.
• Acts as a first responder for facility-related emergencies that impact the operations and coordinates with other critical facilities professionals to perform corrective repairs. Supports the disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Ability to read and interpret fire system, electrical system and mechanical system drawings.

Year(s) of Related Experience:

Required:

• 4+ years of experience in a related field
• Prior building automation experience
• Critical facility systems experience
• Experience working in facilities environment with exposure to electrical, mechanical, plumbing and refrigeration type equipment.
• Well versed in NEC and NFPA rules and regulations

Preferred:

• 6+ years of experience in a related field
• 2+ years building automation experience
• 4+ years critical facility system experience
• 5+ years’ experience working in facilities environment with exposure to electrical, mechanical, plumbing and refrigeration type equipment.
• Well versed in NEC and NFPA rules and regulations
• OSHA 10 course completion, IFMA FMP, ASHRAE course completions, stationary boiler operator license

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:

Req:

• Ability to sit, stand, bend, stoop, push, pull, reach and lift as required, on a continuous basis, with items that can weigh up to 75lbs.
• Ability to work extended hours within a Data Center Environment and typically within a heat range of 60 degrees Fahrenheit upwards of 110 degrees Fahrenheit while following OSHA driven work rest cycles.
• Requires ability to climb and utilize a ladder varying in types from A-Frame to extension ladders at various heights.
• Understands the implications of work to make sound recommendations for solutions.
• Consistently demonstrate and follow established procedures for assigned activities and collaborate cross functional with teams as well as vendors and suppliers to achieve goals

 Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans