Regional Applications Specialist - Data Centers
About The Position
The Regional Applications Specialist – Data Center serves as foundational technical support for a defined region within the Global High-Tech organization. Reporting to the Global Applications Manager – High Tech Water, this role applies expertise in industrial water treatment, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and cooling system operation to support reliable, efficient, and sustainable performance of mission-critical cooling systems. The specialist advises on data center cooling water treatment, partners with account managers and customer engineering teams to design and optimize treatment programs, reviews system designs and operating data, and supports commissioning, troubleshooting, and program execution. The role also identifies operational efficiency opportunities, quantifies potential savings, leads technical trials, contributes to customer proposals and technical marketing materials, and provides training and technical guidance to internal teams. Travel within North America is approximately 50% of the time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field such as Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering.
- At least 5 years of experience in industrial water treatment or data center cooling operations.
- Strong knowledge of water chemistry, corrosion, fouling, and microbiological control.
- Experience commissioning, treating, and monitoring facility and technical loop systems within data centers.
- Ability to travel approximately 50% of the time within North America.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across technical, sales, and operations teams.
- Confidence communicating technical recommendations to customers.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical advisor on water treatment in data center cooling systems, including cooling towers, closed-loop systems, adiabatic systems, and liquid cooling.
- Partner with Corporate Account Managers and customers’ engineering teams to design and optimize treatment programs.
- Review system designs, operating data, and P&IDs to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
- Support root cause analysis for system issues affecting reliability or efficiency.
- Provide product and execution guidance for commissioning newly constructed hydronic systems.
- Assist in executing water treatment programs according to internal best-practice guidelines.
- Conduct Best Practice Gap Analysis, identify program gaps, and recommend operational efficiency improvement projects in a documented report, emphasizing water and energy savings.
- Quantify operational savings for efficiency improvement projects.
- Lead innovation pilot applications, technical trials, and market trials.
- Assist in developing technical marketing materials, including case studies, white papers, and trade show presentations.
- Contribute to technical proposals and standardized solutions for enterprise customers.
- Support Key and Corporate Account Managers with customer program reviews.
- Stay current on emerging cooling technologies, including high-density compute and liquid cooling.
- Provide training and technical guidance to internal teams.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Discretionary bonuses
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
