Lead Building Engineer

Job Title

Lead Building Engineer

Job Description Summary

Position Summary: The Engineer Lead role will give you the opportunity to expand your skills and experience working on mission critical infrastructure facilities operations for the largest wholesale data center provider in the world. We offer a clean, stable environment where there is a lot of variety and always something to do, and where you’ll work at least 40 hours per week. This position serves as the technical and operational leader for a team of two Maintenance Technicians supporting three locations in Secaucus, NJ. The role requires balancing hands-on technical responsibilities with supervisory duties, workforce planning, vendor coordination, and operational excellence across multiple locations. If you are looking for an exciting job with great benefits in a company that will provide you with a lot of opportunities to learn, grow, and expand your skillset for a high-demand role, then this could be the right place for you.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

As an Engineer Lead you’ll work with your peers to ensure coverage 365 days per year, 7 days per week, 24 hours per day. You’ll spend most of your days on a variety of interesting activities, including walking the facility and inspecting infrastructure systems, performing routine maintenance, supervising the facility, assessing needs, monitoring construction projects, and completing repairs as needed. You will also help to gather information and take readings to fill in the parameters on daily spreadsheets. The service you provide will be to the underlying support systems (power, cooling, etc.) for customers’ computers, so you will not be expected to do any computer maintenance—the customers do that for themselves.

Some specific responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring building infrastructure systems.

• Provide direct supervision, leadership, and technical guidance to two Maintenance Technicians.

• Assign, prioritize, and coordinate daily work activities to ensure operational coverage, completion of preventive maintenance, and timely response to facility issues.

• Use and monitor numerous facilities tracking programs such as but not limited to CMMS (Famis 360), regulatory schedules, incident management programs, training matrix, etc. 

• Troubleshooting and repairing building infrastructure systems with a focus on HVAC systems and electrical systems.

• Monitor technician productivity, work quality, and compliance with maintenance procedures, safety requirements, and company policies.

• Assist with onboarding, training, coaching, cross-training, and ongoing development of Maintenance Technicians.

• Serve as the primary escalation point for Maintenance Technicians during operational incidents, equipment failures, and emergency situations.

• Partner with management on scheduling, resource allocation, time-off coordination, and overtime planning to ensure adequate site coverage.

• Provide input on employee performance evaluations, development opportunities, and corrective action processes when necessary.

• Foster a culture of safety, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement throughout the maintenance team.

• Performing preventive maintenance on all building equipment.

• Preparing Change Management Forms and Methods of Procedure (MOPs).

• Scheduling maintenance procedures with vendors.

• Ensuring compliance with all safety procedures and use of protective equipment.

• Responding quickly to emergency situations (fire, evacuation, equipment failure etc.) and customer concerns as needed.

• Field emergency calls in the event of incidents related to the critical infrastructure, provide oversight and assistance on how best to remediate such incidents, and seeing all remediation efforts through to completion.

• Participate in facilities inspections and conditions assessments, asset data validation within CMMS including schedule and task planning 

• Provide engineering oversight to the AMD Business Units at locations that are undergoing new build outs or being renovated. This includes reviewing Architectural and MEP plans for adding or upgrading new equipment, infrastructure, building improvements, and the like, interface with applicable building management and operational staff, provide technical guidance and leadership, interact with contracted labor and vendors 

Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities.

Key Competencies:

• An understanding of computer systems, and skill with Microsoft Office products.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• The ability to follow instructions and processes precisely and carefully.

Education:

• An associate's degree (AA/AS) or an equivalent combination of education and experience; data center experience is strongly preferred.

• A trade license or certification acquired through technical education/training

Important Experience:

• Experience working with mission critical data equipment, and the willingness to work in a fast-paced, mission critical environment.

• Strong HVAC, mechanical, and electrical skills and experience.

Additional Qualifications:

·       Possess and maintain a valid driver’s license and good driving record

·       Basic Computing Skills in Outlook, Excel & Word 

·       The willingness to work at least one weekend per month, and unscheduled overtime as needed to complete projects or break-fixes.

·       The ability to walk around a good deal of the time to perform inspections, to do some work outdoors in the weather if needed, and to lift heavy objects.

·       Data center experience a plus.

Keys to Success:

This is a technical job and it is heavy on the electrical side, but there are a number of diverse pieces to doing the job well. To excel in this role you will need an understanding of HVAC, electrical, large chillers, diesel generators, cooling towers, UPS systems, large batteries, and more. You may be in front of customers, so you’ll also need to be able to present yourself well and have great communication skills. You will complete certain reports, so you’ll need enough knowledge of computers to create and update reports in Word and Excel. To complete the reports, you will also need the ability to gather information. This hands-on role will take much more than just experience with rounds and readings. In addition, to be an outstanding Facility Engineer, you will:

• Achieve goals independently, but also know when to ask for help.

• Remain open to learning new things, including the client’s way of doing business.

• Be willing to dig in to discover the cause of issues and be creative in solving them.

• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and pride in your work.

• Bring a commitment to teamwork.

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.
The compensation for the position is: $57.21 - $67.31Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position at Cushman & Wakefield, please call the ADA line at 1-888-365-5406 or email Accommodations@cushwake.com. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.

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