Sr. Water Systems Engineer, DC Design Engineering

Job ID: 2936387 | Amazon Corporate Services Pty Ltd

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Do you dream of working in a role where your talent with water chemistry, quality, sustainability, and next-generation data center design can be merged? Do you want to expand your current knowledge of water treatment systems while providing input from your previous experience? Have you ever wondered what it is like to be able to influence construction on a global scale? YES Then keep reading….

In this role you will influence water chemistry and treatment, coordinating with design engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance for our global fleet of data centers. This includes on site and large campus water systems. You will work with internal and external teams to define, design, detail, and document the various water treatment features that our facilities require, using both prescriptive and performance-based design approaches. As an Owner, you will strive to ensure the water treatment features of our buildings protect our people and keep our customer's data safe and uninterrupted over the life of the building. We expect you to contribute your expertise to the continual improvement of our water system design standards.

Primary responsibilities will be to perform and oversee project-related work, such as water supply analysis and design for buildings, including coordination with utilities and internal water teams to establish basic site infrastructure requirements. The ability to coordinate water treatment system space requirements, supporting utilities, and equipment locations, and to provide detailed construction specifications for water treatment systems. You will typically be responsible for the preparation of detailed designs for water treatment and sustainability systems. You will coordinate with all design disciplines to ensure they meet the code requirements described in our design standards. In some cases, you will oversee and review this work and in other cases you will perform the work yourself.

As the team's subject matter expert, you will ensure that contractors have the information they need to build our data centers the way we expect them to, and that our operations teams are well equipped to operate and maintain them as needed to meet our goals. As part of this role you will work with internal and external stakeholders, including design engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, vendors, and other service providers, as well as local officials. You will be part of a global team, and you will be an integral part of our work to change the world through technology.

1. Driving improvement of design standards and project approaches across the organization.
2. Work with third party design vendors to review concept designs and designs in progress to ensure they meet established design standards, local code requirements, and any other requirements of the Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs).
3. Be responsible for providing high quality water treatment advice on a wide variety of projects globally while working with global Mechanical engineering teams to achieve alignment of water treatment systems objectives.
4. Coordinating with construction, commissioning, and risk management teams to answer requests for information and value engineering queries.
5. Be responsible for code compliance, design and installation standards, water supply evaluation and assessment, testing, inspections, and submittal review. Meet with AHJs as needed to ensure approval of water treatment features.
6. This position will require up to 25% travel.

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1. Bachelor's degree in a field related to Civil, Chemical, Mechanical or an equivalent engineering degree in a related field with at least 5 years additional qualifying experience.
2. Cumulative 10+ years of experience in design engineering or the construction industry, related to water quality and chemical treatment.
3. Experience applying local codes, International Code Council (ICC) requirements, and other water treatment industry standards, procedures, and methodologies.
4. Experience with processes of design review, specification, development of design standards, and submittal review.
5. Ability to read and understand construction documents for all trades (design drawings, control diagrams, specifications, etc.).

1. Water Quality Association Certified Treatment Designer.
2. Experience authoring white papers, technical documentation, training materials, Code Modification Requests (CMRs), and Alternate Materials and Methods (AMM) proposals.
3. Experience directly related to construction and maintenance of data centers, critical medical infrastructure, industrial, construction, oil and gas, or large-scale mechanical and power systems.
4. Experience as a design engineer and/or water treatment specialist as defined by the Water Quality Association.

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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