Regional Chief Engineer, Operations, DCEO

Job ID: Amazon Data Services France SAS

Amazon is looking for a detail-oriented individual to join our Data Center Engineering Operations Team. This group maintains the critical physical infrastructure that supports AWS, ensuring the data center's MEP operates at high availability while delivering first-class customer service to teams within the data centers.

As the Data Center Chief Engineer (CE), you will ensure that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center operates at peak efficiency. This involves planned preventative maintenance, daily corrective work, and emergency response. You will serve as an expert technical resource reporting to a site's Data Center Facility Manager and interacting with onsite Engineering Operation Technicians (EOT) and third-party vendors. You will be the focal point for all facility operations within a given data center, supporting Amazon in owned and operated data centers. Data center equipment supporting mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime.

As the Chief Engineer you will manage small-to-medium impacting projects from conception to completion, coordinating with engineering, automation, processing, and finance teams in local and global settings. You will create and deliver key milestones, obtain and track quotes for costs, and document project results for future implementation at other facilities. Projects aim to drive innovation and resiliency while reducing operational costs.

You will direct, train and support Engineering Operation Technicians in electrical and mechanical equipment troubleshooting and operations. You will implement site/equipment-specific training exercises. Equipment includes, but is not limited to, stand-by diesel generators, switchgear, UPSs, PDUs, AHUs, chillers, cooling towers, chemical treatment systems, pumps, motors, VFDs, and building automation systems.

Key responsibilities

• Setting and maintaining the highest safety standards and promoting a world-class safety culture in all operational procedures
• Driving continuous improvement of infrastructure through standardisation of procedures and policies, while delivering performance against metrics
• Collaborating with the Operations Principal Engineer, site Chief Engineers and broader operations teams to streamline maintenance procedures and implement standardized risk assessment protocols
• Ensuring 100% uptime on all customer-supporting infrastructure
• Training and mentoring technical operations staff on corrective and preventative maintenance of mission-critical infrastructure
• Collaborating with 3rd party providers to deliver operational excellence for AWS customers
• Leading a portfolio of strategic projects to ensure class-leading performance of critical infrastructure
• Delivering build-out and retrofit of facility infrastructure in existing and new regional locations through technical reviews and commissioning activities by contracted providers
• Ensuring organizational capability to react to any potential customer-impacting event on electrical or mechanical infrastructure
• Elevating capabilities of site chiefs and EOTs, establishing training requirements, coordinating readiness testing and drill programs

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years' experience in a high-volume mission-critical operational environment (e.g., data center, healthcare, high technology manufacturing, large-scale production, aviation maintenance), preferably 7x24x365
• 10+ years of relevant leadership experience in engineering/technical operations for medium to large-scale operations (preferably electrical and mechanical), with demonstrated ability to lead response teams and deliver root-cause remediation
• Proven experience with strategic project/portfolio management delivering medium to large-scale technical projects
• Ability to deliver results in highly complex, technically challenging, cross-team environments
• Strong prioritization skills in complex environments
• Strong IT skills, including MS Office
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams to deliver rapid solutions across geographies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Associates or Bachelor's in applicable engineering field or mechanical/electrical trades
• Operating engineering licenses (e.g., DC II, DC III or equivalent); stationary engineering/building engineering license; electrical or mechanical journeyman license; CFC license; NFPA 70E
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; solid leadership and organizational abilities
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles and functional/technical depth
• Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer

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