Energy Efficiency Senior Engineer

Energy Efficiency Senior Engineer
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 245+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of 10,000+ companies, including 2,000+ networks and 3,000 cloud and IT service providers in 32 countries spanning six continents.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

**Job Summary**

The operational sustainability team sits within the Global Operations Engineering team and is accountable for providing strategic leadership support to the field operations team in all energy related matters to align local operations to Equinix's sustainability agenda.

The Ops Sustainability team is responsible for creating programs and activities that deliver on the company sustainability goals and are implemented consistently across all IBX sites globally.

Advising on best practices, industry trends and creating specialized content to increase awareness, the Energy Efficiency Engineer works cross-functionally with other teams to identify and implement sustainability projects and other initiatives that contribute to short term as well as long term company goals. The initiatives are aligned with the following areas: energy efficiency, local onsite renewable energy, water management, scope 1 emissions and circular economy and roll up into Equinix Corporate Sustainability Goals as published annually.

This role will sit under a global team and will be expected to care for a global audience of stakeholders.

**Responsibilities**

Technical Support
- Identifies initiatives that contribute to achieve our sustainability goals including development of high level technical solutions
- Evaluating the technical solution against the effect on energy efficiency (PUE reductions) including the calculation of energy savings
- Strong engineering capabilities on the areas of mechanical, electrical and controls with experience of developing energy savings measures across all three disciplines
- Support development of projects business case, including development of templates and tools to streamline this process
- Acts as an SME for the Operational team on all topics related to Energy and Sustainability
- Works with colleagues in the operational sustainability team to create content that advances the company sustainability agenda

Reporting
- Reports progress on all sustainability initiatives as directed
- Works with team colleagues to design and create new tools that add value to the programme leveraging the company’s digital transformation agenda

Internal Advocacy
- Works together with IBX Operations to perform site energy audits as needed leveraging the expertise of team colleagues
- Attends internal meetings cross-functionally to support the delivery of the program goals and others as required
- Works with the corporate Sustainability Programme Office to provide support with Operational related requests

Data Management
- Analyses energy data to identify opportunities for energy improvements
- Works with the rest of the Global Operations Engineering team to provide insights using asset data that contribute to the sustainability initiatives

Compliance
- Aware of all regulations related to carbon compliance
- Provides first line of support to operations teams in all matters related to carbon compliance
- Able to understand and support ISO 500001 audit and reporting process

Complexity & Problem Solving
- Uses logic and reasoning to investigate technical issues
- Highly disciplined and organized with an analytical mindset
- Displays sense of urgency with deadlines and drives objectives with increasing challenges

Collaboration & Interaction
- Experience working in mission-critical organizations with dynamic, fast-paced environments
- Understands how to assess customer needs through direct communication, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
- Creates an atmosphere of interdependence, collaboration, and reciprocal communication among departments or divisions within the company
- Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise
- Adapts style and uses persuasion in delivering messages
- Frequently ad