Our Client, a Business Maunufacturing and Supply company, is looking for a Facilities Engineer III for their Charlotte, NC location.
Responsibilities:
- Power Requirements & Electrical Design (IT Load Planning)
- Own IT power demand planning for manufacturing computer rooms: establish current and future rack power budgets, peak load assumptions, and growth buffers.
- Produce/maintain documentation of power source paths, redundancy assumptions, and room feeding approach (e.g., dual feeds, generator transfer) consistent with site DR and readiness documentation practices
- Coordinate with plant electrical/facilities teams on electrical capacity, panel space, circuits, breakers, and phased expansions.
- UPS / Battery Backup Engineering & Runtime Targets
- Define UPS strategy (central room UPS vs. rack UPS) and ensure capacity supports business uptime needs.
- Manage UPS lifecycle: sizing, runtime targets, monitoring, inspection cadence, testing, vendor maintenance coordination, and replacement planning.
- Support sites where UPS utilization is already a risk: e.g., communications on maintaining a "stop-gap" utilization threshold and planning larger capacity upgrades
- Perform troubleshooting and improvement planning for UPS/battery systems aligned with critical facilities operating practices
- Rack Elevations, Physical Layout, and Capacity Modeling
- Create and maintain rack elevations and "as-built" room layouts to support safe installation, maintenance access, and growth.
- Ensure racks are designed and positioned to support safe servicing, cable length constraints, and practical workflows as part of overall computer room layout best practices.
- Maintain CAD-style documentation and keep drawings current as the environment evolves
- Site Readiness, Modernization Support, and Constraint Removal
- Partner with IT infrastructure modernization programs (e.g., dual-room resiliency to identify and eliminate physical constraints like insufficient UPS power, rack space limits, and lack of dual connections.
- Drive remediation plans in coordination with facilities teams while minimizing production impact
- Operational Excellence: Risk, Change, and Incident Support
- Serve as the facilities escalation point for computer room power events, and participate in root cause analysis and remediation planning for electrical failures.
- Establish/maintain SOPs/MOPs for planned power work, UPS maintenance, rack adds/moves/changes, and room upgrades.
- Provide QA/QC oversight for contractor work impacting computer rooms and critical electrical paths
- Stakeholder, Vendor, and Contractor Management
- Manage vendor relationships for UPS, battery, and monitoring systems; coordinate quotes, SOWs, and delivery timelines for upgrades (including cases where site power capacity expansion is required).
- Collaborate with plant maintenance on generator/transfer readiness and testing practices where applicable.
- Provide overall management of the Struxure ware DCIM Platform
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (B.A.) or equivalent from four-year college in computer science or related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in critical facilities / electrical infrastructure / data center or computer room environments, ideally supporting industrial or manufacturing facilities
- Hands-on expertise with UPS systems, battery technologies, and electrical distribution, including troubleshooting and operational safety protocols.
- Demonstrated capability producing and maintaining rack elevations/layouts and validating power/thermal/weight constraints.
- Experience with generators, ATS/STS units, and mission-critical electrical systems operations.
- Familiarity with industry data center tiering concepts and reliability-oriented design thinking
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities