Facility Engineering Technician 3
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's, Associate's
Kansas City, MO, USA
In PersonTravel to other LightEdge facilities may be required for training, project support, incident response, or operational coverage.
General Maintenance & RepairBuilding & Property Maintenance
About the job
Requirements
- A high school diploma or equivalent.
- Five or more years of experience in data-center operations, critical facilities, industrial facilities, hospitals, utilities, military facilities, or another mission-critical environment.
- Demonstrated experience operating and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, HVAC, controls, or life-safety systems.
- Ability to work independently during routine operations and complex incidents while exercising sound technical judgment.
- Ability to read electrical one-line diagrams, mechanical drawings, control diagrams, equipment manuals, and sequences of operation.
- Ability to work assigned shifts, weekends, holidays, on-call rotations, and emergency events as required by site operations.
- Ability to use computerized maintenance management systems, building management systems, electrical power monitoring systems, data-center infrastructure management systems, or similar operational systems.
- Ability to work in a 24x7 data-center environment with rotating shifts, extended hours, nights, weekends, holidays, and on-call assignments.
- Ability to walk, stand, climb stairs and ladders, reach, bend, kneel, crouch, work above shoulder level, and work in mechanical and electrical rooms.
- Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull equipment and materials within company-approved limits and applicable accommodations processes.
- Ability to work safely in areas with elevated noise, temperature variation, construction activity, personal protective equipment requirements, and energized or potentially energized equipment under approved safe-work practices.
- Ability to travel between LightEdge facilities as required for training, project support, incident response, or operational coverage.
- Work must comply with LightEdge safety policies, Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements, National Fire Protection Association 70E practices, lockout/tagout procedures, personal protective equipment requirements, approved work permits, equipment-specific procedures, and applicable building, fire, environmental, and electrical codes.
Responsibilities
- Conduct scheduled facility rounds and record operating conditions, equipment status, alarms, readings, abnormalities, and required follow-up actions.
- Monitor building management systems, electrical power monitoring systems, data-center infrastructure management systems, and other facility-monitoring platforms; investigate abnormal conditions and escalate issues in accordance with incident procedures.
- Operate and maintain mission-critical electrical, mechanical, cooling, fire and life-safety, building infrastructure automation controllers, and facility-support systems in accordance with approved procedures.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, and audit requirements in line with customer and company service-level agreement standards.
- Perform preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment testing, repairs, and post-maintenance verification while protecting customer operations and system redundancy.
- Serve as technical lead during complex incidents, emergency events, loss-of-redundancy conditions, equipment failures, and abnormal operating scenarios.
- Lead or support root-cause analysis, corrective-action plans, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvements.
- Develop, review, execute, and close out methods of procedure, standard operating procedures, emergency operating procedures, switching procedures, maintenance scripts, and other controlled operational documents.
- Serve as technical owner for assigned facility systems, including equipment records, procedures, training, spare parts, maintenance history, and lifecycle planning.
- Identify single points of failure, capacity constraints, equipment deficiencies, operational risks, and opportunities to improve resilience and efficiency.
- Collaborate with engineering and project teams on new builds and expansions.
- Coordinate vendors and contractors, including scope review, job-safety documentation, permits, work execution, testing, punch-list completion, and closeout documentation.
- Manage assigned work requests and maintenance activities through the company computerized maintenance management system or service-management platform, driving work to timely resolution.
- Maintain accurate one-line diagrams, sequences of operation, equipment records, asset data, configuration items in ServiceNow, maintenance history, as-built documentation, and site operating procedures.
- Support facility capacity planning, energy-efficiency initiatives, infrastructure optimization, and readiness for high-density customer deployments.
- Support construction, commissioning, integrated systems testing, equipment acceptance, punch-list completion, and operational turnover for new or modified facilities.
- Train and qualify Technician I and II employees on equipment operation, emergency procedures, safe work practices, and technical procedures.
- Participate in shift coverage, nights, weekends, holidays, on-call rotations, emergency response, and travel to other LightEdge sites as assigned.
- Identify and report unsafe conditions, procedural gaps, equipment hazards, and compliance risks.
- Follow approved work-control, change-management, risk-assessment, and peer-review processes before performing work that could affect critical operations.
- Support audits, inspections, emergency exercises, safety training, and corrective actions.
Desired Qualifications
- An associate degree, technical degree, military training, trade-school certification, or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced experience with uninterruptible power supply systems, generators, switchgear, automatic transfer switch equipment, power distribution units, remote power panels, chillers, computer room air handler/computer room air conditioning units, pumps, motors, and building controls.
- Experience with Niagara or similar building management system platforms and with electrical power monitoring systems or power-monitoring systems.
- National Fire Protection Association 70E, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency 608, original equipment manufacturer, electrical, HVAC, controls, or stationary-engine certifications, as applicable to the assigned site.
- Experience supporting commissioning, integrated systems testing, design reviews, construction turnover, or high-density data-center deployments.
About the company
LightEdge Solutions provides hybrid IT infrastructure services focused on security and compliance. Its core offerings include secure colocation, a high-performance private cloud, and easy integration with hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, enabling a resilient, end-to-end IT environment. The company emphasizes physical security and cyber defense to protect client assets continuously, and offers professional cloud services to guide customers through their cloud journeys—from strategy evaluation to implementation, testing, and ongoing security management. It also provides managed services that augment a client’s internal IT team for hardware, software, and cloud environments, and collaborates with partners like Nutanix to build and deliver modern hybrid cloud infrastructure. Overall, LightEdge aims to help businesses run secure, compliant, and flexible IT operations with trusted, expert support.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$5M
Headquarters
Des Moines, Iowa
Founded
1996
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What believers are saying
- Kansas City's May 2026 acquisition was 100% pre-leased before closing.
- June 2026 AWS SMB Competency strengthens Lightedge's credibility with regulated midmarket buyers.
- March 2026 VCF 9.0 claims 34% lower storage TCO, improving sales velocity.
What critics are saying
- Broadcom and IBM can bypass Lightedge with direct cloud and managed-service sales in 2026.
- Boone site uncertainty persists after September 2026, delaying greenfield capacity and local growth.
- Lightedge's 2026 workforce shrinkage and acquisition-heavy strategy strain integration and margins.
What makes LightEdge Solutions unique
- Lightedge pairs colocation, private cloud, and hyperscaler integration under one operator.
- March 2026 VCF 9.0 rollout made Lightedge an early Broadcom Pinnacle managed-service provider.
- May 2026 PowerVS integration gives IBM i and AIX customers one hybrid control plane.
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- Professional Development Budget