Critical Environment Engineer

QTS Data Centers • Wilmer, TX

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About The Position

The Critical Environment Engineer assists with engineering coordination, installation, and integration of electrical and mechanical systems, operations, and maintenance across QTS facilities. The role supports both critical and non-critical systems and requires strong planning, engineering judgment, and the ability to lead through influence and collaborate proactively. Relevant environments may include large-scale data centers and systems such as electrical distribution, static UPS, emergency standby generation, fire alarm and suppression, monitoring, chillers, and large-scale cooling systems.

The position supports a 7x24x365 data center environment. It provides technical support for operations, maintenance, repair, construction, commissioning, customer installations, infrastructure assessments, procedures, compliance initiatives, and controlled maintenance and change-management activities. The role may require travel of up to 50% to other data center locations. U.S. citizenship is required by law because of federal customer contracts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or professional equivalent.
• Five or more years of direct experience with engineering-related activities in a technical or critical environment, such as a data center, nuclear power facility, hospital, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, or industrial/commercial field engineering environment.
• HVAC or critical power certifications, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ability to travel up to 50% to other data center locations as required.
• U.S. citizenship, required by law due to federal customer contracts.
• Ability to develop solutions and create technical plans for projects.
• Ability and willingness to find creative and innovative solutions to improve quality, reliability, and operating costs.
• Advanced understanding of mechanical and electrical equipment, systems, and design related to data centers.
• Knowledge of electricity and medium- to low-voltage electrical distribution systems.
• Experience with emergency backup systems, including generators, UPS, and battery backup.
• Knowledge of preventative maintenance and work-order software systems, single-line drawings, critical scripted work, and sequences of operations.

Nice To Haves

• Seven or more years of direct experience with facilities engineering activities in a data center environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for data center operations, including operation, maintenance, and repair of mission-critical equipment and systems supporting 24x7 operations and customer SLAs.
• Assist with site construction and installations in coordination with the QTS Development Team and external construction resources, ensuring design, installation, and testing follow operational standards.
• Witness equipment commissioning tests, validate sequences of operations, and confirm receipt of operational documentation.
• Support local customer installations by coordinating technical solutions and drawings for customer move-ins and turn-ups, including deployments and power circuit installations.
• Conduct and evaluate ongoing assessments of infrastructure and operations as required by QTS policies and procedures.
• Support implementation and auditing of local standard operating procedures.
• Support accreditation, certification, and compliance initiatives as required by QTS.
• Maintain compliance with local health and safety standards, including OSHA, and national electrical and building codes.
• Interface with vendors, QTS Engineering, QTS Development, and peer operations organizations.
• Ensure adherence to standard operating procedures, method of procedures, emergency operating procedures, and formal change-control processes.
• Assist with technical review and input for significant planned and emergency facility maintenance, ensuring work is performed in a controlled manner that protects critical-load reliability.
• Assist with the Change Management Process and provide approval for preventative and corrective maintenance in accordance with QTS processes.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with Roth and traditional matching contributions and immediate vesting
• Flexible spending and HSA accounts
• Paid holidays, paid time off, paid volunteer days, and floating holidays
• Employee assistance program
• Tuition assistance and tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Military leave assistance and military benefits package
• QTS scholarship for employee dependents
• Wellness program
• Bonus eligibility
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Holiday compensation when working holidays
• Pet and legal insurance
• Q-Rest Sabbatical Program
• Q-Anniversary Service Award Program
• QTS Charitable Matching Gift Program
• QTS Crisis Fund

What This Job Offers

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