Critical Facilities Engineer - Electrical

1. Essential Duties & Responsibilities
   

• Work under limited supervision, both independently and within a team environment
  
• Manage multiple one-time and/or ongoing projects.
  
• Respond to safety and emergency situations and maintain a safe and secure work environment.
  
• Use discretion and judgment in organizing workflow and adapting as priorities are modified due to a changing environment.
  
• Frequent contact with employees at all levels of the organization and external contact with vendors.
  
• Operate, perform maintenance and service repairs on critical Data Center systems (MV/LV electrical boards, UPS, PDU, Diesel Generators, ATS equipment and Building Controls etc.)
  
• Develop reliability reports to ensure availability and capacity targets are achieved and maintained with 100% uptime. Track and trend operational characteristics.
  
• Coordinate, and oversee all maintenance vendors to ensure personnel safety, protect the Facility’s critical equipment, and maintain power to the critical load.
  
• Co-create required MOPs (Method of Procedure), SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and EOPs (Emergency Operating Procedures) to ensure all maintenance activities are performed in accordance with them.
  
• Using a Critical Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to plan and track work needed, the Site Operations department drives all preventative and corrective maintenance.
  
• Using the BMS (Building Management System) and all available systems and do regular walkthroughs to always keep up to date with the appropriate monitoring on site.
  
• Additional duties as assigned from time to time by management.
  

• Demonstrate knowledge of operating, maintaining, repairing, inspecting, and testing critical electrical distribution systems, and building management/automation equipment.
  
• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures related to electrical systems needed to run data centers.
  
• Technical Writing skills and experience; as well as creating, coordinating, updating and/or modifying MOPs/SOPs/EOP’s for critical facilities equipment, to include supporting new systems and researching technical requirements.
  
• Building infrastructure systems including but not limited to alarm system theory and application; lighting; electrical distribution systems; uninterruptible power system theory and application including emergency generation backup systems.
  
• Environmental rules and regulations and Local building codes will be an added advantage.
  

Requirements

• BSc/BTech in Mechanical Engineering or an equivalent, BSc/BTech in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent, whose curriculum is duly approved by CUE/ EBK.
  
• Engineers Board of Kenya registration certificate as a Registered Engineer.
  
• Valid engineers practicing license from EBK.
  
• 3+ years preferred, of “hands on” experience with the maintenance and repair of industrial electrical and mechanical systems in mission-critical facilities to include emergency generators (Generators, Fuel Delivery systems and Parallel Switchgear), electrical distribution (MV/LV switchgear and associated controls), critical and essential PDUs, UPS, switchgear, cooling systems, fire suppression systems and building monitoring/control systems.
  
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks etc.
  
• Strong understanding of infrastructure redundancy configurations and equipment and their risks (N+1, 2N, Distributed Redundancies, ATS/ STS, Failover Scenarios)
  
• Strong knowledge of energy efficiency principles.
  
• Excellent understanding of emergency situations and escalation processes.
  
• Good understanding of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), Building Management Systems and Event and Power Management Systems (EPMS).