In the Electrical Standards Engineer role, you will have an opportunity to work alongside a dynamic team of industry professionals across the Critical Environments (CE) spectrum within Microsoft’s 24x7x365 mission-critical data centers. You will be serving as a mission critical electrical infrastructure subject-matter-expert with accountabilities that include, but are not limited to, development, maintenance, and delivery of global programs relating to electrical infrastructure. These programs include maintenance, operations, and technical standards. You will monitor the execution of these programs and identify opportunities for continuous improvements. You will be expected to leverage your industry experience along with knowledge form industry governing bodies in developing these programs. You will be expected to document and implement best practices and learnings from the field as they apply to Microsoft’s global mission critical electrical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

 As a Critical Facilities Engineering Manager, you will be developing, maintaining, and delivering Microsoft’s standards and tools to deliver global consistency and predictability in a high availability, mission critical environment. In developing our program, you will leverage a variety of information that will come to us by way of monitoring for program health, identifying continuous improvement opportunities, evaluating industry trends, evaluating industry best practices, evaluating customer insight, and analyzing lessons learned. You will champion delivery of new developments and implementation of programs developed by our group. You will serve as the lead technical Systems and Process resource for Operational Excellence in infrastructure maintenance and operations. You will serve as an escalation point for issues identified in the operations of our data centers as it relates to global standards. In development of programs, you will identify requirements owners, end users, document owners, and tools owners.

 You will partner with

Internal: Field Operations, Engineering, Construction, Cost Management, Finance, Safety, Legal, Risk and other groups as needed

External: suppliers, industry groups,

 Skills:

Experience in data centers, mission critical or heavy industrial sectors.

Facilities Management Experience: Preference for experience onsite and large-scale facilities

 Behaviors:

Create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success

High-integrity - must be ethical and strong value-based individual focused on fairness and maintaining confidentiality.

Have a “sense of urgency” to issue resolution.

High-performer – able to fit the Microsoft “culture” by effectively multi-tasking and managing priorities.

Always be planning for the future

Understand the importance of relationships inside the company and with our supply chain partners.

Qualifications

 Required Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/ Process Engineering or in relevant field or equivalent work experience

In depth experience with large-scale electrical power or HVAC infrastructure

Very Strong program/project management experience

Strong experience operating or supporting the operations of mission critical or large scale data center

Strong People Management experience in leading functional team(s)

 Desired Experience:

In depth project management experience with a focus on PMI, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma or ITIL methodologies.

Professional Engineering (PE) license, or equivalent technical certification. 

Fundamental understanding of large-scale critical infrastructure maintenance and operations, especially with regards to electrical distribution systems or HVAC systems

Knowledge of construction techniques and terminology including the ability to read and interpret blueprints, construction drawings and documents is essential.

Ability to write specifications to be leveraged by partner teams

Ability to manage, prioritize and successfully execute multiple concurrent mission-critical infrastructure projects.

Good program development experience.

Working knowledge of contract terms, conditions, mechanism, and procedures.

Very Strong experience with the operation and maintenance of building electrical systems or HVAC systems. (Power distribution, cooling systems, lighting, grounding, fire alarm, security, life safety, and controls systems).

Ability to manage multiple high-priority tasks and projects, including those involving cross-functional teams.

Experience with CMMS, SharePoint, and PowerBI.

Ability to balance competing demands for resources and adapt to changing priorities.

Demonstrated strategic and deliberate approach to problem solving in ambiguous environments.

Proven ability to deliver projects on-time and as specified.

Proven ability to motivate disparate teams both direct and indirect to solve issues.

Proven ability to apply clear critical thinking in complex situations.

Provide meaningful and timely reporting for weekly success metrics

Occasional travel will be involved.

Ability to work independently

 Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.