Lead Critical Facilities Engineer
Cox Enterprises
- Alpharetta, GA
- $106,700-177,900 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the implementation of a Maintenance Management System for effective tracking and reporting.
- Manage vendors performing maintenance in critical facilities to ensure safety, efficiency, and technical accuracy.
- Drives creation of plans to test and validate functionality, management, and performance of existing and new technologies.
- Assists in regulatory compliance inspections and preventative maintenance on critical equipment and properties.
- Conducts moderate/complex equipment evaluations, selection, testing, and designs to ensure reliability and scaled expansion of critical facilities.
- Facilitate Post-Incident and Root-Cause analysis to continuously improve operations.
- Establishes Critical Facilities Engineering performance measurements and goals.
- Evaluates and trends the performance of generators, battery backup systems, power plants, HVAC, life/safety, and building management systems.
- Oversee risk management and system maintenance coordination for uninterrupted operations.
- Develop and manage emergency operating procedures and standard operating procedures.
- Tracks and resolves escalations.
- Plans, documents, trends, and logs all parameters relating to space capacity, quality, AC/DC power, HVAC, building management systems, and support systems within critical facilities.
- Proactively recommends process improvements to management.
- Provide off-hours support for maintenance issues and system complications as required.
- Share technical knowledge and skills with other team members to develop their capabilities.
- OPEX and CAPEX budget planning for all facilities
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 6 year’s experience in in critical environment operations (data centers, nuclear power, hospitals, etc.). The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 4 year’s experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 10 year’s experience in a related field.
- Proven experience in managing teams and coordinating vendor activities to achieve project milestones.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver projects timely, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Excellent interpersonal abilities and collaboration skills to engage with diverse stakeholder groups.
- In-depth knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and control systems in critical environments is highly desirable.
- Strong leadership, effective communication, problem-solving, and strategic decision-making skills are essential.