Senior Electrical Engineer; data centers

Position: Senior Electrical Engineer (data centers)
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A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You'll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. 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

The Senior Electrical Design Engineer mentors junior engineers. Performs the planning, system design, system implementation, system maintenance and support. Leads small to medium scale electrical projects and the roll out of electrical engineering initiatives in our currently operating data centers. Assists with development and implementation of electrical engineering design standards, policies and procedures. Effectively interacts with other internal and external teams, including the design engineering, site engineering, construction management and regional data center operations teams, onsite support vendors and consultants on data center projects, policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

Project Management

* Leads and manages brownfield electrical engineering retrofit projects or other design and engineering initiatives

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

System Operation and Work Practices (including Capacity Planning)

* Expert operating knowledge of critical facilities electrical engineering systems to include advanced diagnostics and repairs

* Ability to apply knowledge of Equinix processes and procedures and industry standards 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, consider impacts of changes on regional level while working with the global team)

* Utilizes safe working practices at an expert level (e.g. can apply procedure for lockout/tag out)

* Evaluates and assures the safe working practices of others

* Interacts with other engineering, design and construction disciplines

* Works with the capacity and site engineering teams to resolve power and/or cooling limitations and optimize resource utilization

Leadership and Communications (including Vendor Mgmt.)

* Contributes to mentoring junior team members

* Directs all internal and external project team members

* Directs external vendors per project or initiative such as 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

* Includes executive level communications in standardized templates

Policy & Procedure Development and Adherence

* Contributes to creating and maintaining best in class policies and procedures

* Participates in review of policy and procedure documents

* Develops policy documents with the input of others

* Assures adherence to developed standards and policy through review of documentation, participation in commissioning activities, design summits and data center physicals

Problem Solving

* Consistently solves complex, cross-functional issues requiring independent action and a high degree of initiative to resolve (i.e., works with local ops team to perform root cause analysis for difficult incidents, proposes solutions to issues and produces lessons learned for future reference)

* Makes recommendations for system level enhancements to eliminate potential problems

* Tests suitability of components or action plans for deployments

Qualifications

* Typically 7+ years in electrical system design, operations, maintenance, and project planning with emphasis on data center or…