Capacity Engineer Staff

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Job Summary

The Capacity Engineer resolves a variety of data management, design, and drawings for installations.  The primary focus of this roll will be the creation, interpretation, and distribution of CFD models in support of data center capacity.
Responsibilities

Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Creates CFD models supporting regular sales activities, project justifications, and for solving of thermal issues arising within our facilities

• Works collaboratively with peers to perform reviews of models built by others and provide constructive feedback

Mechanical Engineering

• Completes Power Utilization Effectiveness (PUE) calculations for facilities with guidance from Site Operations

• Assess high-power density customer deployments

• Review impact of containment walls and privacy screens on facility cooling system performance

Space Planning & Design

• Creates standard Cage-Cabinet design options that respond to customer requirements, Equinix requirements and physical site constraints

• Prepares notional Cage-Cabinet layouts, area calculations and diagrams

• Optimizes space utilization to develop the best design solution for the data center and the customer

Engineering

• Applies developed knowledge of electrical/mechanical infrastructure to notionally attribute standard Cage-Cabinet designs against data center infrastructure

• Prepare high-density review cases

• Validates and updates data center infrastructure data within capacity systems

• Acts as a mentor to more junior team members

Problem Solving

• Solves standard, multi-functional issues that span multiple groups

• Identify and understand underlying issues

• Understands when and to whom to engage, but tries to solve the problem first

Data & Drawing Management

• Works with site operations to address discrepancies with documentation of facility infrastructure and installation of customer cages

• Ensures that AutoCAD drawings and capacity systems accurately represent existing status of the data center

• Identifies and makes corrections as needed

• Identifies and owns the investigation of data issues

• Produces drawings and space plans for use by Sales, Site Operation and other teams

• Builds diverse spatial layouts of each customer cage which are used by the other capacity teams for their reviews, and by the Sales Engineers and site teams for customer installations

• Drawing and inventory preparation

• Builds numbering plans for new sites, compiling inventory list, and preparing the drawings files used to track assignments

• Compiles as-built underground utility drawings as the need arises to create a comprehensive record drawing for each site

Collaboration and Teamwork

• Collaborates with various teams to identify any power/cooling issues that affect space capacity

• Answers experienced inventory-related questions from cross-functional departments

• Ability to engage and capture guidance from appropriate collaborators to reach the right solution for the company and the customer within a diverse scope

• Where planning decisions are in dispute between sales and operational needs, the engineer is expected to raise to the right level

• Coordinates with various departments for the monthly reporting of capacity trends, availability and accuracy of records for the site

Capacity Feasibility & Optimization

• Works with Capacity and/or site engineers to identify power and cooling limitations, discuss potential modifications and solutions

• First point of contact for the capacity review process to ensure that space is being assigned increases the value of our data centers by optimizing the efficiency of our space within a moderate scope

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ data center capacity planning experience preferred

• BSME preferred

• Experience with Cadence Six-Sigma preferred

• Bilingual Spanish a strong plus

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