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A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.
Job Summary
As an Operations Controls Engineer within our Data Center Services Team, you'll play a key role in ensuring the performance, visibility and reliability of the critical infrastructure that powers the digital world. You'll work across a diverse portfolio of data centres, collaborating with engineering, operations and technology teams to support advanced monitoring, automation and controls systems that keep our facilities running at the highest standards.
This role is for all our Manchester sites but is primarily based at Manchester MA5. The team spans across EMEA north countries and you may also have the opportunity to assist colleagues in those locations.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, global environment where you'll constantly learn, solve complex problems and contribute to the continuous improvement of mission-critical facilities.
Responsibilities
Support and Optimise Critical Infrastructure Systems
Configure, onboard and validate assets, alarms and monitoring points within Building Management Systems (BMS) and Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platforms
Support the implementation and validation of power circuit monitoring within Branch Circuit Monitoring (BCM) systems
Validate and optimise infrastructure performance metrics, including Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE)
Troubleshoot and Improve System Performance
Investigate and resolve data quality, integration, communication and controls performance issues across monitoring platforms
Support controls integrations, validating point mapping, alarming strategies and data flows
Identify opportunities to improve monitoring coverage, operational visibility, alarm quality and overall system performance
Deliver Projects and Commissioning Activities
Participate in commissioning, startup, testing and validation activities for controls and monitoring deployments
Work closely with vendors, consultants, system integrators and site teams to deliver controls-related projects successfully
Contribute to the development of technical documentation, procedures and implementation standards
Collaborate and Share Expertise
Partner with regional operations teams, engineers and stakeholders across Equinix's global portfolio
Share knowledge, best practices and technical expertise to improve operational effectiveness and reliability
Support a culture of continuous learning, innovation and operational excellence
Qualifications
Technical Expertise
Experience in controls engineering, building automation, industrial controls or critical facility environments
Strong troubleshooting skills across field devices, controllers, network components and supervisory systems
Knowledge of controls systems supporting electrical, HVAC, fire protection and other critical infrastructure
Experience with BACnet, Modbus and OPC communications protocols
Familiarity with one or more controls platforms, including Schneider Electric PLCs and AVEVA System Platform
Experience with data collection, protocol conversion or historian platforms such as Kepware, Matrikon or similar technologies
Understanding of IP networking concepts, including switches, routers, VLANs and network troubleshooting
Ability to interpret Sequences of Operation, P&IDs, control drawings, electrical schematics and one-line…