Job Description & Details
This is a heavy-duty, hands-on leadership role running the electrical, mechanical, and environmental infrastructure for a mission-critical data center. If you like keeping massive amounts of power and cooling running without a blip—and want a clear runway toward a Chief Engineer title—this is a solid spot to plant your flag.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
Your day-to-day will be a mix of tactical firefighting, vendor coordination, and high-level procedure review. You will oversee massive UPS systems, backup generators, high-capacity chillers, and critical power distribution while making sure preventive maintenance goes off without a hitch. When things break or upgrades are scheduled, you are the technical escalation point stepping in to diagnose failures, review MOPs, SOPs, and EOPs, and ensure the facility never drops a beat. You'll also spend time mentoring junior techs, driving safety compliance, and leading post-incident investigations when things go sideways.
The Core Tech Stack
You need deep, practical fluency in mission-critical electrical and mechanical systems—we're talking industrial HVAC, chillers, heavy electrical distribution, and life safety frameworks. The team relies on you to natively understand data center power paths and cooling topologies, because this role is strictly about the physical infrastructure keeping the servers alive, not the hardware sitting inside the racks.
Interview Expectations
The hiring manager will likely test your crisis management by asking how you handle a partial generator failure during a sudden utility drop while downstream chillers are acting up. They want to hear a calm, methodical triage process that prioritizes safety and load shedding without panicking. You'll also probably be quizzed on your experience reviewing Method of Procedure (MOP) documents, specifically how you spot hidden risks in a complex electrical switchover plan.
Application Advice
Your resume needs to scream reliability, safety, and leadership rather than just general maintenance. Make sure to explicitly highlight your 5+ years of data center experience right at the top, and weave in keywords like 'UPS', 'generators', 'MOPs', 'SOPs', and 'vendor management' so you clear the ATS filters. Emphasize any time you've mentored technicians or stepped up as an incident commander during critical facility outages.