Building Engineer – Hyperscale Data Center Operations
Abilene, TX
Temporary to Full Time
Mid Level
Building Engineer – Hyperscale Data Center Operations
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Building Engineer to join our mission-critical operations team supporting one of the world’s leading hyperscale data center platforms. Our ethos is simple: Always Online. We own reliability, uptime, and operational excellence by directly operating and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers our customers and business.
Unlike organizations that outsource core responsibilities, we believe in a self-perform model. Our engineers are hands-on owners of the facility and execute the maintenance, troubleshooting, repairs, and continuous improvement of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems that keep our sites online.
This is a senior individual contributor role for a technical expert who thrives in high-accountability environments and leads through execution, knowledge, and standards.
Key Responsibilities
Critical Facility Operations
Plumbing / Auxiliary Systems
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What Success Looks Like
Our Culture
We are builders, operators, and owners. We do not wait for others to solve our problems. We self-perform because it creates speed, accountability, and deeper expertise. We hire people who take pride in their craft and understand that in our world, Always Online is not a slogan—it is the standard.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Building Engineer to join our mission-critical operations team supporting one of the world’s leading hyperscale data center platforms. Our ethos is simple: Always Online. We own reliability, uptime, and operational excellence by directly operating and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers our customers and business.
Unlike organizations that outsource core responsibilities, we believe in a self-perform model. Our engineers are hands-on owners of the facility and execute the maintenance, troubleshooting, repairs, and continuous improvement of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems that keep our sites online.
This is a senior individual contributor role for a technical expert who thrives in high-accountability environments and leads through execution, knowledge, and standards.
Key Responsibilities
Critical Facility Operations
- Operate, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain mission-critical MEP systems supporting hyperscale data center operations.
- Ensure maximum uptime and reliability of all site infrastructure.
- Respond to alarms, incidents, abnormal conditions, and emergencies with urgency and sound judgment.
- Execute switching, isolation, startup, shutdown, and restoration procedures in accordance with approved processes.
- Chillers, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC units, pumps, piping systems, valves, hydronic systems, HVAC controls, air handlers, pressurization systems.
- UPS systems, switchgear, breakers, generators, ATS/STS, PDUs, transformers, battery systems, grounding systems, EPMS/BMS integration.
Plumbing / Auxiliary Systems
- Domestic water, fuel systems, leak detection, fire/life safety interfaces, drainage systems, compressed air, support utilities.
- Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance internally whenever possible.
- Diagnose failures and repair equipment without overreliance on vendors.
- Use vendors strategically for specialty scopes, while retaining ownership of standards and quality.
- Drive first-time fix mentality and reduce outsourced spend through technical capability.
- Identify recurring failures and reliability risks.
- Improve PM procedures, SOPs, MOPs, and EOPs.
- Support commissioning, retrofits, capacity expansions, and operational readiness.
- Mentor junior engineers and raise technical standards across the team.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience operating and maintaining critical MEP systems in data centers, hospitals, utilities, semiconductor, manufacturing, or similar uptime-critical environments.
- Deep expertise in either mechanical or electrical systems, with working knowledge across all MEP disciplines.
- Strong troubleshooting ability under pressure.
- Experience with CMMS systems, work orders, PM programs, and documentation.
- Knowledge of lockout/tagout, arc flash, safety programs, and change management.
- Ability to read one-lines, schematics, P&IDs, sequence of operations, and control drawings.
- Comfortable performing hands-on field work daily.
Preferred Qualifications
- Data center or hyperscale operations experience.
- OEM certifications or trade licenses (electrical, HVAC, stationary engineer, etc.).
- Experience with live switching / energized operations.
- Controls/BMS/EPMS experience.
- Root cause analysis / reliability engineering mindset.
What Success Looks Like
- Equipment stays online and reliable.
- Maintenance is executed with high quality and minimal vendor dependence.
- Issues are found before failures occur.
- Emergencies are handled calmly and effectively.
- Standards improve because you are on the team.
Our Culture
We are builders, operators, and owners. We do not wait for others to solve our problems. We self-perform because it creates speed, accountability, and deeper expertise. We hire people who take pride in their craft and understand that in our world, Always Online is not a slogan—it is the standard.
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