Critical Facilities Technician, Emea

À PROPOS DE VANTAGE DATA CENTERS

Vantage s’engage à être un lieu de travail d’inclusion, d’équité, de respect et d’acceptation. Nous célébrons la diversité et cherchons intentionnellement des occasions d’apprendre des expériences de chacun.

Vantage Data Centers alimente, refroidit, protège et connecte la technologie des plus grands joueurs hyperscale, des fournisseurs de solutions infonuagiques et des grandes entreprises. Présente dans six marchés en Amérique du Nord et six en Europe, Vantage innove dans la conception des centres de données pour offrir des gains spectaculaires en termes de fiabilité, d’efficacité et de durabilité ainsi que des environnements flexibles qui peuvent évoluer aussi vite que le marché l’exige. Vantage connaît une croissance exponentielle grâce à ses installations nouvelles jumelées à ses acquisitions à travers l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe.

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 Facilities Technicians (CFTs) working on shift. This team is the face of Vantage to our customers and the guarantee of business continuity and excellence of Operations of our campus as well as the performance of our customer installations. Using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to plan and track maintenance activities, the Site Operations department is responsible for all preventative and corrective maintenance. Our culture expects and rewards team performance that engages directly with the customers and the facility infrastructure.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Critical Facilities Technician 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.

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

Essential Job Functions
- Ensure the completion of the maintenance activities to the highest quality level of planification, preparation, execution, and reporting
- Ensure the full reliability of the infrastructures with the focus on continuity of services, energy efficiency, and budgetary constraints
- Use the BMS (Backup Management System) and all available systems and do regular walkthroughs to keep up to date at all times the appropriate monitoring on site

Duties
- In close collaboration with the contractors, participate in the drafting of the preventive maintenance schedule for the site infrastructures and implement it in collaboration with all service providers concerned. Closely monitor the operations with a continuous concern for minimizing risks during interventions, and ensure the reporting of this activity
- Participate in the implementation of the site-specific crisis management plan and in the tests and implementation exercises concerning this plan
- Within applicable and authorized interventions according to the local regulation and the up-to-date certification(s) of the CFT, be capable of manipulating/activating certain electrical and or mechanical and or security infrastructures for the purpose of protecting people and property and/or maintaining service continuity on the site
- Monitor very closely the capacities of the infrastructure equipment at their different levels and their load of use/demand, and report back to the Site Manager
- Anticipate the impact of the future development of customer loads on these infrastructures by implementing warning thresholds and also by investigating technical solutions to reinforce the infrastructures (technical feasibility, design choices, budgetary allowance, etc.) and/or their level of redundancy
- According to the Site Manager's instructions, carry out this infrastructure reinforcement analysis well in advance (utilizing studies, quotations for implementation, project schedule, risk analysis, operating instructions, etc.)
- Participate with the construction team to any site construction phase including the commissioning, and specifically to ensure service continuity to the customers
- Actively contribute to all improvement actions in the site PUE
- Proactively raise awareness of the need to increase the power level that is contractually agreed upon with the energy provider
- Develop energy quality indicators as provided on beha