About Vantage
Vantage 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.
Location Flexibility: We are open to candidates based in and around any of our Vantage locations across the EMEA region.
Operations Engineering Department
The Infrastructure Operations Engineering team provides the technical leadership and engineering expertise required to ensure our critical infrastructure is safe, resilient, reliable and operationally effective. Bringing together multidisciplinary expertise across Electrical, Mechanical, Controls and Permitting, the team supports the full asset lifecycle, from design and construction through commissioning, operational handover and ongoing site support. Working closely with Design, Delivery, Site Operations, Customer Experience, Procurement and global engineering teams, the team will drive consistent engineering standards and technical strategies across the operating fleet.
The Operations Engineering Team is responsible for the overall health of critical systems across Vantage global operational facilities. For each of the major systems Electrical, Mechanical, and Controls, the Operations 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, sustaining equipment operational availability through maintenance programming, providing technical support to the Site Operations Teams, and providing systems reliability and maintainability feedback to the Design Engineering teams for future design considerations.
Position Description
The Manager, Electrical Engineering is responsible for leading the execution of primary Operations Electrical Engineering Program objectives. The Manager is required to effectively coordinate Subject Matter Experts in balancing workload demands both within the Operations Engineering team and cross functionally to ensure critical system health. This responsibility includes Site Operations technical support, critical change management support, oversight of facility acceptance testing, critical system maintenance planning, remediation / retrofit projects and ensuring reliable system operations are sustained for the life of the facility. Requirements for this position include thorough understanding of critical electrical systems arrangements, potential system failures and extended effects of those failures, and appropriate failure response actions. Also required is an understanding of data center design theory, equipment sequence of operation, and an ability to identify likely failure points in design. This position interfaces with peer Operations Engineering Teams in other geographies to ensure global alignment of Vantage's processes worldwide.
Essential Job Functions
- Oversee and support continuous development of facility acceptance testing, remediation / retrofit projects, site asset performance, maintenance programming, and Site Operations best practices.
- Serve as team leader for internal workload management, planning projects, and aligning Subject Matter Experts with site specific work demands.
- Develop and provide status reports on health of systems, progress on team objectives, and Key Performance Indicators.
- Thoroughly understand electrical, mechanical, and controls, systems and provide at request technical guidance to Site Operations Leads.
- Ensure critical systems remain fully available for facilities across the EMEA region.
Duties
- Work with cross functionally with technical teams including Design Engineering and Construction teams to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.
- Provide at request guidance and technical support to facility operators for issues that occur at our data centres.
- Review construction equipment submittals, identify potential deficiencies, and evaluate maintenance feasibility.
- Review commissioning plans and ensure the thoroughness of startup testing.
- Facilitate the transition of commissioned spaces to site operations and coordinate acceptance of the facility.
- Develop risk management plans that will anticipate reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation.
- Work with Site Operations to perform analyses of asset utilisation, overall equipment effectiveness, capacity planning and remaining useful life.
- Prioritize work orders, and identify resources, and ensure ample supplies required to complete tasks.
- Oversee site mitigation and system upgrade projects and/or collaborate with adjacent teams where design engineering and construction expertise is required.
- Coordinate vendor activity and man
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Vantage Data Centers is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment at our Newport campus where innovation meets reliability. With a strong focus on employee growth and development, we provide ample opportunities for professional advancement while fostering a collaborative culture that values teamwork and efficiency. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking company that prioritises your career and well-being in the fast-paced data centre industry.
