Full-Time

Senior Critical Environment Technician

Controls and Instrumentation

Posted on 10/27/2025

Microsoft

Microsoft

10,001+ employees

Develops software, OS, and cloud services

Compensation Overview

$26 - $47/hr

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

San Antonio, TX, USA

Hybrid

Category
Electrical Engineering (2)
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Requirements
  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent
  • 1+ year(s) mission critical services work/applied learning experience (e.g., high availability assembly/manufacturing/critical infrastructure environments such as data centers, oil and gas refineries, hospitals, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or related fields) + OR equivalent experience.
  • Ability to work 12-hour shifts, including shift assignments during non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends and/or holidays.
  • Travel up to 25% of the time as part of the role.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements; Microsoft Cloud Background Check: pass on hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Responsibilities
  • Prepares and submits required reports (e.g., turnover, preventative maintenance [PM]) as assigned following preexisting scripts and templates, or using ad hoc methods required to support trending and analysis (e.g., Maintenance data, equipment trending data).
  • Develops methods of operating procedure (MOPs), standard operating procedures (SOPs), and/or digital methods of operating procedures (DMOPs) for devices and disciplines within their coverage and expertise to ensure safe and reliable execution.
  • Documents completed work using approved tools and procedural templates for more experienced technician review.
  • Completes and provides coaching to support less experienced technicians for mandatory, technical, and procedural training assignments.
  • Analyzes findings from reports and documents observations.
  • Performs various types of maintenance (e.g., planned, predictive, corrective) and repairs following methods of procedure (MOPs), standard operating procedures (SOPs), and digital methods of operating procedures (DMOPs) for multiple disciplines and one or more types of equipment (e.g., electrical, mechanical, cooling systems) with minimal supervision - in consideration of Task Hazard Analysis (THA), Method Statement of Work (MSOW), or varying permit requirements.
  • Communicates and/or escalates maintenance activities per established process and procedure as needed.
  • Prioritizes maintenance activities as required and/or appropriate.
  • Documents tasks or issues during maintenance activities within appropriate systems per process and procedure as needed.
  • Performs maintenance tasks and repairs that can be performed with minimal oversight.
  • Follows recommended maintenance schedules.
  • Oversees maintenance tasks within a single discipline or area of expertise.
  • Maintains all systems and equipment in a safe and professional manner and understands levels of risk (LORs) associated with varying types of maintenance with established mastery of maintaining systems of a specific discipline.
  • Provides necessary escort to third-party contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, and service providers on site based on the appropriate procedure levels of risk (LOR).
  • Takes part in getting third-party work underway (e.g., making sure systems are properly energized/deenergized), ensuring the work is started and completed in a safe manner in accordance with standard practices, procedures, and Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) regulations.
  • Ensures work performed by suppliers/vendors is performed to scope, all documentation is performed correctly, and escalates as appropriate.
  • Recognizes circumstances when to stop supplier/vendor work to address potential and/or identified concerns.
  • Coordinates per appropriate LOR applicable to preventative and/or corrective maintenance.
  • Identifies and recommends procedure corrections if/when errors are detected or when appropriate.
  • Coordinates and schedules supplier/vendor on-site activities.
  • Reviews and completes appropriate work orders to support approval of vendor supplier field service reports or invoices.
  • Processes method statement of work (MSOW) documents.
  • Coordinates activities and associated schedules with contractors.
  • Performs inspections of equipment in a facility.
  • Participates in testing and commissioning activities.
  • Documents issues found in troubleshooting process within appropriate systems per process and procedure as needed.
  • Ensures equipment and system settings are consistent with established parameters and designs.
  • Determines when troubleshooting efforts are deemed adequate and communicates or escalates to suppliers, engineers, or more experienced colleagues as needed.
  • Has a hands-on understanding of how equipment works within disciplines they have been trained and how to troubleshoot to a subsystem level.
  • Provides consultation to less experienced colleagues with troubleshooting systems and problems.
  • May lead efforts to troubleshoot issues and identify root causes.
Desired Qualifications
  • Associate's Degree or technical trade certification (e.g., military, trade school), or higher-equivalent education AND 2+ years mission-critical services experience (e.g., high-availability assembly/manufacturing/critical infrastructure environments such as data centers, oil and gas refineries, hospitals, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or related fields) OR High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent AND 3+ years mission critical services experience (e.g., high-availability assembly/manufacturing/critical infrastructure environments such as data centers, oil and gas refineries, hospitals, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or related fields) OR equivalent experience.
  • Controls and instrumentation experience, calibration and maintenance of sensors associated with BAS (building automation) and EPMS (electrical power management) systems, fault finding and diagnostic work using facility controls and in field PC’s, ability to work with networking communication devices and power quality and mechanical metering, strong organizational and technical expertise, control room (facilities monitoring) response and experience

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