Summary
AVAR is hiring a Data Center Electrical Engineer in Dubai to commission and test electrical infrastructure and verify that installations meet design specifications. The role also covers facility operations, planned and emergency maintenance, vendor coordination, safety, and reporting. Candidates need at least five years of maintenance planning and scheduling experience, three years working with electrical equipment, and at least three years of data center commissioning experience. The posting lists bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering or a related field among its education requirements.
The posting
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Key Responsibilities
Commissioning and Acceptance
- Leading all aspects of safety for all electrical tests.
- Overseeing complete commissioning and performance acceptance testing of the electrical infrastructure systems.
- QA/QC of all electrical & mechanical test procedures, installation and startup.
- Providing input and insight into the overall commissioning plan.
- Compiling reports for the electrical commissioning engineers and issue a daily report to the Commissioning Project Manager.
- Attending and being an active participant in customer equipment factory witness test.
- Assisting with vendor coordination and management.
- Performing equipment inspection to ensure build adherence to vendor submittal.
- Development of electrical equipment and system test procedures.
- Providing test and documentation that equipment is delivered, installed, and tested correctly and set to function properly for customer.
- Supporting and performing design specification review, manufacturer submittals, one line drawing sets, and project schedule documentation.
- Executing test scripts to confirm equipment and system operation to design specifications.
- Ensuring safe work practices are followed by all on the commissioning team and customer site.
- Providing daily reports for electrical commissioning team status.
Operation and Maintenance
- Monitoring the data center facilities infrastructure platform.
- Serving as a Point of Contact for operational team. Assisting with the development of communication and escalation protocols designed to improve the team’s performance.
- Contributing to outage postmortem analysis.
- Assisting with coordination and communication during emergency recovery efforts.
- Assisting with the development of tools that will enhance the team’s performance.
- Managing all phases of the primary and backup electrical systems to include monitoring and scheduled, preventative and emergency/reactive maintenance activities.
- Communicating with local contractors and vendors during different maintenance activities
- Identifying problems and developing corrective actions.
- Composing policies, processes and reviewing SOPs, MOPs and EOPs of various data center activities.
Education
- A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Master's Degree (Electrical) in Engineering or a related field.
Experience
- +5 years of experience in maintenance planning, scheduling, and associated maintenance work.
- 3 years of experience working with electrical equipment.
- Minimum of 3years Data Center Commissioning experience.
- Criticalfacilityexperienceandcriticalbuildingsystemsknowledgerequired.
- Experience in leading a datacenter facility operations team.