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You'll play a pivotal role in maintaining the heartbeat of Amazon Web Services' physical infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations that support millions of customers worldwide.\nThe Data Center Chief Engineer (CE) is responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating at peak efficiency. This involves both planned preventative maintenance of equipment, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues. The CE serves as an expert technical resource reporting to a site’s Data Center Facility Manager, interacting with onsite Engineering Operations Technicians (EOT) and any third-party vendors. They are expected to be a singular focal point for all facility operations within a given data center and to support Amazon within its owned and operated data centers. Data center equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime.\nChief Engineer will be responsible for managing small-to-medium large impact projects from conception to completion. These projects can involve large amounts of independent work as well as collaboration with external support groups including engineering, automation, processing, and finance in both local and global settings. The CE will be tasked with creating and delivering milestones, obtaining and tracking quotes for all necessary costs, and documenting project results for future implementation at other facilities. The goals of such projects are for the CE to drive innovation and resiliency while reducing operational costs in the facilities.\nThe Chief Engineer directs, trains and supports EOT’s in their role of providing hands-on electrical and mechanical equipment troubleshooting and operations. Implementation and execution of site/equipment-specific training exercises is also expected. This equipment includes, but is not limited to, stand-by diesel generators, switchgear, UPS’s, PDU’s, AHU’s, chillers, cooling towers, chemical treatment systems, pumps, motors, VFD’s, and building automation systems.\nAWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. \nYou’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. \nEffective May 15, 2017, logical access to the AWS GovCloud region will be restricted to Amazon employees who are U.S. Citizens. (GovCloud may NOT be accessed from outside of the United States) \nThis role will be physically based at our new MDD Pecos, TX site.\nKey job responsibilities\nAct as the primary escalation point for all facilities-related issues.\nOversee operation and management of routine and emergency services on a variety of critical systems such as switchgear, generators, UPS systems, power distribution equipment, chillers, cooling towers, computer room air handlers, building monitoring systems, etc.\nPerform root cause analysis of equipment failures and troubleshooting of facility within internal Service Level Agreements (SLA).\nProvide training and guidance to Engineering Operations Technicians and are responsible for working with Facility Manager (FM) to set team culture.\nCreate and deploy new standard practices for Engineering Operations Technicians, Chief Engineers, and vendor support teams\nMay assist in the building out of new facilities and assist in projects to increase current facility efficiency\nWorking outside of normal business hours for routine maintenance as required, including responding to out-of-hours emergency calls.\nCommunicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience.\nWork with IT managers and other business leaders to coordinate projects, manage capacity, and optimize plant safety, performance, reliability and efficiency\nEnsure all safety procedures are adhered to by vendor and Amazon staff\nEstablish building performance benchmarks, conduct analyses, and prepare reports on all aspects of the critical facility of operations and maintenance.\nUtilize Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and other basic administrative tools to perform day-to-day tasks About the team This role will be physically based at our new MDD Pecos, TX site.\nBasic qualifications\n- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field\n- Experience carrying new design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production\n- Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems\n- Experience with power management and power monitoring systems\n- Experience reading and writing procedures, technical documents, and engineering drawings\n- 4+ years of administrative experience including Microsoft Office products\n- Experience leading technical teams through daily operations, maintenance evolutions, and complex troubleshooting\n- 4+ years of data center experience including industrial electrical and mechanical systems\nPreferred qualifications\n- 5+ years of project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure experience\n- Knowledge of critical data center equipment\n- Knowledge of engineering documentation, electrical diagrams and standard operating procedures\n- Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety, BOCA, NFPA, NEC, or OSHA\n- Experience in project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure\n- Experience in Data Center Engineering Operations, with a deep understanding of electrical and mechanical data center infrastructure\n- Experience reading and interpreting construction specifications and drawings for all domains\n- Associates or higher in engineering field or mechanical or electrical trades\n- PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent certifications\n- Training-lead informal training\n- Must be able to work in an environment that involves walking, stooping, bending, and climbing to access equipment.\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.\nThe base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. 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