Amazon

Sr. Water Systems Engineer, DC Design Engineering

Amazon$136K — $184K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience
  • 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities such as data centers or power generation
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
  • Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment
  • Experience with research on new designs, technologies, and construction methods for data centers

Responsibilities

  • Drive improvement of design standards and project approaches organization-wide
  • Review concept designs with third party vendors ensuring compliance with established standards and local codes
  • Provide high-quality water treatment advice for various global projects in alignment with mechanical engineering teams
  • Coordinate with construction and risk management teams to address information requests and value engineering questions
  • Ensure compliance with code and design standards through testing, inspections, and submittal reviews

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • Mental Health Support and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
Full Job Description
In this role you will influence water chemistry and treatment, coordinating with design engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance for our global fleet of data centers. This includes on site and large campus water systems. You will work with internal and external teams to define, design, detail, and document the various water treatment features that our facilities require, using both prescriptive and performance-based design approaches. As an Owner, you will strive to ensure the water treatment features of our buildings protect our people and keep our customer's data safe and uninterrupted over the life of the building. We expect you to contribute your expertise to the continual improvement of our water system design standards.

Primary responsibilities will be to perform and oversee project-related work, such as water supply analysis and design for buildings, including coordination with utilities and internal water teams to establish basic site infrastructure requirements. The ability to coordinate water treatment system space requirements, supporting utilities, and equipment locations, and to provide detailed construction specifications for water treatment systems. You will typically be responsible for the preparation of detailed designs for water treatment and sustainability systems. You will coordinate with all design disciplines to ensure they meet the code requirements described in our design standards. In some cases, you will oversee and review this work and in other cases you will perform the work yourself.

As the team's subject matter expert, you will ensure that contractors have the information they need to build our data centers the way we expect them to, and that our operations teams are well equipped to operate and maintain them as needed to meet our goals. As part of this role you will work with internal and external stakeholders, including design engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, vendors, and other service providers, as well as local officials. You will be part of a global team, and you will be an integral part of our work to change the world through technology.

Key job responsibilities
• Driving improvement of design standards and project approaches across the organization.
• Work with third party design vendors to review concept designs and designs in progress to ensure they meet established design standards, local code requirements, and any other requirements of the Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs).
• Be responsible for providing high quality water treatment advice on a wide variety of projects globally while working with global Mechanical engineering teams to achieve alignment of water treatment systems objectives.
• Coordinating with construction, commissioning, and risk management teams to answer requests for information and value engineering queries.
• Be responsible for code compliance, design and installation standards, water supply evaluation and assessment, testing, inspections, and submittal review. Meet with AHJs as needed to ensure approval of water treatement features.
• This position will require up to 25% travel.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience

- 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field

- Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment

- Experience in data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance

- Experience in industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities

- Experience researching new designs, technologies, and construction methods of data center equipment and facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Professional Engineering or Architectural License

- Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region

- Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production

- Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents

- Experience with water treatment design for industrial water, domestic water and wastewater.

The 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Austin - 136,600.00 - 184,800.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Herndon - 136,600.00 - 184,800.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 136,600.00 - 184,800.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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