Principal Automation Systems Specialist, Global

About Vantage Data Centers
Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects, and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across six markets in North America and five markets in Europe, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver positive gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Innovation Engineering Group
The Innovation Engineering team is responsible for the development of standards, templates, specifications, and owner’s requirements documents in support of Vantage’s global growth, most notably leading the Vantage prototyping effort known as OneDesign. The team collaborates with all multi-functional teams within Vantage to drive prototypical designs for global deployment to ensure high quality, consistent product deployments in alignment with constantly evolving internal and external customer requirements. In addition to standards development, the Innovation Engineering team is responsible for leading due diligence assessment of merger and acquisition opportunity, and development of design requirements for customer build to suit opportunities.

Position Overview
Vantage is looking for an ambitious, meticulous, hands-on Principal Automation Systems Specialist to lead software development for construction of Vantage facilities. You will review mechanical and electrical drawings, sequence of operation documents, and instrumentation diagrams to develop prototype Automation systems, writing logic control software and visualization applications for new builds on a variety of system platforms. You will also be called upon to assess merger and acquisition control systems and develop integration plans for connectivity into Vantage standard platforms.

Essential Job Functions
• Author and maintain global controls and automation standards, and templates including BMS points lists, specifications, standardized controls bill of materials, etc.
• Collaborate with global peers to ensure encapsulation and application of lessons learned and improvements to developed standards and prototypes.
• Develop and deploy new PLC applications for new control system projects, with minimal supervision.
• Plan and implement PLC software application modifications in an online, critical environment
• Educate regionally based Automation Systems personnel on standards and prototype programming in support of Vantage market expansion and growth.
• Support data center planning and development activities, including contractor management, validation of hardware and software systems, alarming, data recovery, and functional logic.
• Work with innovative automation systems from large scale industrial controls vendors.
• Develop controls architecture for customer build to suit and program level telemetry projects.
• Work with multi-functional partners in support of controls and automation driven customer billing, reporting, and notification.
• Optimize control logic programming to support increased data center efficiency and sustainability, including but not limited to, application of machine learning.

Duties
• Collaborate with members of the Design, Engineering, Automation Systems, and Construction team during prototype development, as well as members of the Automation Operations, Information Technology and Site Operations team for sustaining existing automation architecture.
• Support the corporate development team in merger and acquisition growth and onboarding of new personnel through due diligence assessments, integration plan development, and new team member onboarding.
• Develop standardized quality control processes to support the start-up and testing of complex control systems.
• Examine project documents, including Mechanical and Electrical drawings, Sequences of Operation, Bill of Materials, Process and Instrumentation Diagrams, and project schedules when developing automation logic that will work with our visualization applications.
• Create standardized prototype Controls Architecture Documents to include Networking Topology & IP Scheme for new data centers based on prototype build.
• Manage other integration team members and staff augmentation personnel.

Job Requirements
• Advanced Knowledge of PLC programming of Rockwell Automation and Carel software platforms is required.
• Knowledge of industrial PLC systems manufactured by innovative, large-scale vendors.
• Knowledge of automation systems (control loops, field IO, etc.) in a mission critical environment is required.
• Knowledge of machine learning driven automation systems is preferred.
• Knowledge of Ignition SCADA platform is preferred.
• 7-9 years of experience in Industrial Automation required.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science is desirable but not required.
• Travel required is expected to be 25% but may increase over time as the business grows.

We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.
Safety and security always matter. During COVID, all positions that can work remotely have been, and appropriate steps have been taken to ensure the safety of employees in any position essential to be on site. Regardless of where you are working, technology to work effectively is provided on or in advance of your first day of employment.
Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds new value to the company and our community.
Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity