Senior Field Engineer, Data Center Design and Engineering
Job Details
- Experience
- Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Requirements
- Have experience delivering complex projects from active project sites in energy, power, heavy industrial, data center, or similar environments.
- Be able to read drawings, single-line diagrams, P&IDs, specifications, and schedules and identify discrepancies with installed work.
- Provide specific examples of persuading contractors, vendors, or partners who did not report to you to change course.
- Be able to hold a position under pressure, support it with evidence, deliver bad news early, and revise conclusions when facts change.
- Have led structured failure investigations, using a method such as 5 Whys or 8D, and followed corrective actions through.
- Write short, factual reports that readers can act on.
- Treat safety as a personal responsibility and stop unsafe work.
- Have a degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong candidates may have experience as an owner's representative overseeing an EPC or general contractor.
- Strong candidates may have commissioning, startup, or system turnover experience.
- Strong candidates may have experience in LNG, refining, offshore, power generation, semiconductor, or naval environments.
- Strong candidates may have an electrical, mechanical, or civil, structural, and architectural (CSA) engineering background.
- A PE license, PMP, or OSHA 30 certification may be helpful.
- Familiarity with Procore or Primavera P6 may be helpful.
Responsibilities
- Walk installed work against approved designs and build working relationships with developers, general contractors, engineers of record, vendors, and commissioning teams.
- Decide whether installed work meets the design, resolve field discrepancies where possible, and involve the appropriate discipline engineer when needed.
- Maintain a prioritized list of open engineering issues with an owner and date, follow up, and escalate stalled items with a clear recommendation.
- Gather evidence when equipment, installations, or tests fail, test initial explanations, identify underlying causes, and verify corrective actions.
- Check interfaces between power, cooling, controls, and structure before they cause test failures.
- Drive RFIs, deviations, and field changes to decisions to prevent open engineering questions from holding up crews.
- Turn recurring site problems into changes to designs, standards, and audit checklists.