Facilities Engineer III

CTG is seeking to fill a Facilities Engineer III opening for our client in Charlotte, NC.

Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration: 12 months with possible extension

Work Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Pay Rate: $59.51 per hour

Overview

The ideal candidate has five or more years of experience supporting data centers, computer rooms, critical facilities, electrical infrastructure, or similar environments. This position will support critical computer room and technology infrastructure within a manufacturing environment, focusing on electrical load planning, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and battery systems, rack layouts, power distribution, facility capacity, resiliency, and critical infrastructure operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain IT electrical load plans, including kW per rack, amperage, phases, A/B feeds, redundancy, and future capacity.
• Coordinate with electrical and facilities teams regarding panels, circuits, breakers, power capacity, and facility expansions.
• Engineer and maintain UPS and battery backup systems, including sizing, runtime, monitoring, testing, maintenance, and replacement planning.
• Troubleshoot UPS, battery, and critical power issues and develop corrective action plans.
• Create and maintain rack elevations, computer room layouts, and as-built documentation.
• Validate power, thermal, weight, space, cable-routing, and service-access requirements.
• Support technology modernization and resiliency projects by identifying and resolving power, rack space, connectivity, and facility capacity constraints.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures and methods of procedure (SOPs/MOPs) for electrical work, UPS maintenance, rack moves, additions and changes, and room upgrades.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation planning for critical power events.
• Provide quality assurance and quality control oversight for contractors working on critical computer room infrastructure.
• Manage UPS, battery, electrical, monitoring, and facilities vendors.
• Coordinate quotes, statements of work, installations, schedules, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Collaborate with maintenance teams on generators, automatic transfer switches, static transfer switches, and critical power testing.
• Manage and administer the StruxureWare data center infrastructure management platform.
• Travel up to 10%, including domestic and international travel.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Facilities Management, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Five or more years of experience in critical facilities, data centers, computer rooms, electrical infrastructure, or related environments.
• Hands-on experience with UPS systems, battery technologies, electrical distribution, and critical power infrastructure.
• Experience with generators, ATS/STS systems, and mission-critical electrical systems.
• Experience creating rack elevations, facility layouts, and capacity models.
• Knowledge of electrical load planning, power redundancy, and facility capacity management.
• Familiarity with data center reliability and tiering concepts.
• Experience with DCIM platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with IT, engineering, facilities, and maintenance teams, as well as vendors and contractors.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the StruxureWare DCIM platform.

Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.

CTG does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services for this role.

To Apply:

To be considered, please apply directly to this requisition using the link provided. Kindly forward this to any other interested parties. Thank you!