Staff Mechanical Operator

What you'll do

• Escalate and resolve mechanical system failures, including chillers, CRAC/CRAH units, pumps, and cooling loops.
• Manage preventive maintenance, lead root-cause analysis, and drive corrective actions to completion.
• Maintain mechanical operating procedures, analyze BMS alarms and trends, and verify commissioned plant before operational handover.

What they ask for

• 8+ years of hands-on mechanical or critical facilities operations in data centers, including time with a hyperscale operator, colocation provider, or cloud data center operations team.
• Deep operating knowledge of chillers, cooling towers, CRAC/CRAH units, air handlers, pumps, and hydronic loops, including startup, failover, and recovery under load.
• Fluency in BMS platforms and a track record owning root-cause analysis and preventive maintenance programs at scale.
• Experience as the senior mechanical escalation point on shift; willingness to work rotating shifts and carry on-call responsibility.

Nice to have

• Experience with direct-to-chip liquid cooling and CDUs.
• CFC/HCFC refrigerant certification (EPA 608 Universal or equivalent), or commissioning handover experience for new-build mechanical plant.

Pay

$202K – $258K (base salary)

Tools

BMS, SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, CRAC/CRAH, CDUs

AI focus

Operates mechanical systems that keep AI data centers and frontier AI workloads online.