Data Center Technical Operations Engineer

TekWissen LLC

Chicago, IL

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$58.74–$62.09
SKILLS
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Support, Cloud Computing, Commissioning, Communication Skills, Community Support, Concurrency, Concurrent Programming Language Family, Corrective Action, Customer Support/Service, Diversity, Documentation Plan, Electrical Components, Electrical Engineering, Electricity, Environmental Regulations, Functional Testing, Low Power, Low Voltage (LV), Maintain Compliance, Maintenance Services, Materials Analysis, Mentoring, Network Operations Center, OSHA, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Development, Project/Program Management, Property Management, Record Keeping, Safety Compliance, Standards Development, Streaming Technology, Switchgear, System Integration (SI), System Test, Technical Analysis, Technical Leadership, Technical Operations, Test Plan/Schedule, Test Scripts, Training Program, Training/Teaching Materials, Vendor/Supplier Evaluation, Vendor/Supplier Selection, Workforce Management, Writing Skills, eCommerce
LOCATION
Chicago, IL
POSTED
1 day ago
Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.
Position: Data Center Technical Operations Engineer III
Location: Chicago, IL
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
  • This contract position supports the Client's Commissioning (ACx) team at ORD59.
  • The primary responsibility of this role is to instruct and certify commissioning vendors to successfully commission electrical data center equipment through the execution of functional testing scripts.
  • The secondary responsibility is to assist the Learning and Development Program Manager with the maintenance, growth, and delivery of the accelerated vendor training program.
Primary Responsibilities:
  • Instruct commissioning vendors on the proper execution of functional testing scripts for electrical data center equipment, including medium and low voltage power systems, UPS, generators, switchgear, PDUs, and Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS)
  • Evaluate vendor technicians against defined competency standards and issue certifications upon successful demonstration of required skills
  • Conduct hands-on field training sessions and evaluations to ensure vendors can safely and accurately perform pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing
  • Identify gaps in vendor knowledge or performance and implement corrective action plans
  • Maintain accurate records of vendor certifications, training completions, and evaluation outcomes
  • Audit vendor commissioning activities onsite to ensure compliance with safety, quality, and environmental requirement.
Secondary Responsibilities:
  • Assist the Learning and Development Program Manager with ongoing maintenance and growth of the accelerated vendor training program
  • Support the development, implementation, and delivery of commissioning training products, including instructional materials, assessments, and hands-on exercises
  • Provide subject matter expertise to inform curriculum updates and ensure training content reflects current equipment, procedures, and Client's standards
Top 3 Must Have Hard Skills:
  • Active Journeyman Electrician license; electrical background
  • Worked on electrical systems
  • Communication
Nice to haves:
  • Prior experience in a formal instruction, training, or mentorship role within a trades or commissioning environment
  • Familiarity with commissioning documentation (test plans, scripts, completion reports
  • OSHA 30 certification or equivalent
  • Experience supporting large-scale commissioning programs with multiple concurrent vendors
  • Familiarity with Building Management Systems (BMS) or EPMS platforms
Leadership Principles:
  • Learn and be curious
  • Ownership
  • Invent and simplify
  • Insist on the highest standards
Years of Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience commissioning electrical systems in data center or mission-critical facility environments
Disqualifies:
  • No experience in commissioning or installing data centers
  • No experience in critical operations; facilities where reliable is important
  • No critical infostructure background
Degree/ Certification Requirements:
  • Active Journeyman Electrician license
What background does someone have that is successful in this role?
  • Demonstrated experience executing functional testing scripts for electrical data center equipment
  • Strong working knowledge of medium and low voltage power distribution systems
  • Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, single-line diagrams, specifications, and sequences of operation
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to convey technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
  • Ability to evaluate technical competency and provide constructive, professional feedback
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/