Controls Engineer, Deployment, Data Center Capacity Delivery

Amazon • New Florence, MO

1d • $111,300 - $186,100 • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring the cloud runs smoothly. This team supports all AWS data centers and the associated equipment, including servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling. The role involves tackling complex challenges within the supply chain and requires collaboration with a diverse team of engineers, specialists, and managers. The position offers an inclusive culture that encourages bold ideas and empowers employees to see them through to completion. The global controls team works with experts in the data center industry, focusing on troubleshooting, project management, and maintenance of the Building Management System (BMS) and Electrical Power Monitoring System (EPMS). Utilizing Amazon leadership principles, the role involves developing new processes and standards while innovating in the controls space. AWS data centers contain numerous components with local control systems that interact via various communication protocols. The BMS primarily controls mechanical systems, and the EPMS monitors electrical systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• Experience carrying new design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
• Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems
• Experience with power management and power monitoring systems
• 4+ years of general contractor and vendor management work (request for proposals, bidding, change orders, quality control, RFI/submittal tracking) associated with construction and project execution experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent engineering science plus 5+ years of relevant controls experience, OR 10+ years of relevant controls experience in lieu of a degree.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure experience
• Knowledge of critical data center equipment
• Knowledge of engineering documentation, electrical diagrams and standard operating procedures
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety, BOCA, NFPA, NEC, or OSHA
• Experience in project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure
• Experience in Data Center Engineering Operations, with a deep understanding of electrical and mechanical data center infrastructure
• Experience reading and interpreting construction specifications and drawings for all domains
• 4+ years of military experience
• Master's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent, or MS degree
• Experience designing, configuring, programming, installing, troubleshooting or servicing HVAC Controls or Electrical SCADA systems application specific controllers, software and networks.
• Experiencing using common industrial communication protocols (MQTT, BACnet and/or MODBUS).
• Demonstrated understanding of engineering documentation, electrical and mechanical diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder deliverables, requirements, and navigate difficult situations.
• Experience designing data centers or critical MEP infrastructure
• Registered as a Professional Engineer (PE), or certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Prior AWS/Amazon experience

Responsibilities

• Train and assist internal customers and stakeholders with the creation, design, configuration, validation, installation, commissioning and operation of BMS and EPMS systems.
• Provide technical assistance and support to operations during life cycle of the data center.
• Review results and action items from the quarterly maintenances for BMS and EPMS and take actions to get them resolved.
• Develop BMS & EPMS projects scope of work, schedule, budget, and level of efforts (LOE) to projects requested by customers and stakeholders.
• Manage scope, schedule, finance and execution of BMS and EPMS improvement projects in AWS data centers.
• Assist in procurement related activities including request for quotation/proposals, responding to request for information, review of vendors proposal and issuance of purchase orders.
• Participate in AWS global on-call schedule to provide immediate BMS and EPMS technical support to in-service data centers.
• Attend project related meetings, coordinate with project leaders and regularly report status to Controls and stakeholder’s management.
• Support Controls projects related commissioning activities in the data centers.
• Review, implement, troubleshoot and iterate on the controls sequence of operation (SOO) and provide necessary feedback to the design team.
• Develop and modify controls logic programming and graphical user interfaces.
• Manage multiple stakeholder deliverables, requirements and navigate challenging situations.
• Financially manage BMS and EPMS service contracts.
• Frequently visit (locally) assigned in-operation data centers to troubleshoot, meet customers, supervise vendor’s work to ensure compliance with the scope, design, SOO and applicable local codes.
• Travel required: 50% to 75% travel to construction job sites across United States, Canada, and Latin American countries to support construction and data center product delivery. Must have valid passport, be able to obtain visas, and be able to meet travel, entry, and re-entry requirements for travel between the United States and destination countries.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level