Reliability Engineering Advisor - Electrical & Power

Job Type: Full Time | Location: Dallas/Fort Worth | Department: Engineering | Reporting to: Senior Manager, Asset Management|Work Location Type:#hybrid

IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC.

The Reliability Engineering Advisor, Electrical & Power is the function's technical authority for IREN's data center electrical infrastructure, from utility and high-voltage intake to the critical load: substations, transformers, switchgear, generators and paralleling, ATS/STS, UPS and batteries, PDU/RPP and busway, protection and controls.

The role owns the enterprise electrical maintenance and testing strategies and operating limits; assures every maintenance plan meets IEEE, NFPA and NETA; owns the switching, testing and procedure standards the sites execute; leads failure analysis for electrical assets; and defines the OEM versus self-perform split for each electrical asset class. It is hands-on with the site teams: witnessing switching and testing, supporting incidents, conducting readiness reviews at each campus stage, approving fit-for-purpose deviations from Regional Asset Managers, and giving functional direction and mentoring to the site reliability engineers, who execute to its strategies and escalate to it.

With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.

Responsibilities

• Electrical Maintenance Strategy & Operating Limits — own the enterprise HV, MV and LV maintenance and testing strategies with a documented technical basis, meeting IEEE, NFPA, NETA and OEM requirements; set the criticality-driven testing regime the campuses execute; publish the electrical operating limits and guardrails the campuses and the integrated operations centre run to.
• Switching, Testing & Procedures — own the electrical switching, isolation and testing standards; develop, review and approve switching orders, MOPs, EOPs and energized-work controls; witness high-consequence switching, transfers, load-bank and integrated systems tests; keep protection settings, coordination and arc-flash studies and single-line diagrams current and reflected in procedures.
• Standards Compliance & Assurance — act as the function's authority on electrical codes and standards; review site programs for conformance to NFPA 70B/70E, IEEE and NETA; support audits and regulator and customer evidence requests; maintain the electrical testing and inspection records framework.
• Root-Cause Analysis & Defect Elimination — lead the failure analysis for electrical asset failures and serve as the technical member of asset-related incident investigations, contributing asset and maintenance factors to HSE-led investigations; define corrective and preventive actions and verify closure; run bad-actor analysis and determine fleet applicability through technical advisories, fleet inspections, strategy or spares changes and OEM engagement.
• Reliability Engineering & Lifecycle — apply RCM, FMEA/FMECA and reliability analytics to electrical systems; design condition-monitoring programs (thermography, ultrasonic/partial discharge, DGA, battery monitoring, power quality) that produce maintenance decisions; evaluate redundancy, single points of failure and common-mode risk across the topology; review electrical changes through the operational management of change process; provide reliability input to specifications, acquisition, commissioning/IST and handover, and to lifecycle, obsolescence and critical-spares decisions.
• OEM Service & Self-Perform Model — define the split between OEM service and IREN's own trained staff for each electrical asset class, including UPS and batteries; set the responsibility matrix, qualification criteria, procedure governance and warranty-protection conditions with Procurement; build the competency that reduces reliance on OEM service while protecting coverage, safety and cybersecurity.
• Site Support, Readiness & Capability — provide day-to-day technical support and functional direction to Regional Asset Managers, site Planning & Reliability teams and Operations: review fit-for-purpose deviations, support incident response and recovery, advise on energized-work decisions, conduct electrical readiness reviews at each campus stage and witness commissioning and acceptance testing; mentor site reliability engineers, electrical engineers and technicians and contribute to competency standards and procedure quality; maintain the electrical reliability KPIs and report performance, risk and required actions to the function and site leadership; feed campus results and bad actors back into the enterprise strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline; Professional Engineer (PE) licensure, CMRP, CRE or NETA/ETT Level III–IV certification is an asset.
• 10+ years in electrical reliability, maintenance engineering or critical-facilities electrical operations, with demonstrable data center experience across HV, MV and LV systems.
• Deep working knowledge of data center electrical architecture and procedures: utility intake and substations, MV/LV switchgear, transformers, generators and paralleling, ATS/STS, UPS and battery systems, PDU/RPP/busway, protection, grounding and EPMS; N+1 / 2N topologies, maintenance bypass and concurrent maintainability.
• Experience developing and executing switching orders, MOPs/EOPs and energized/de-energized work controls; competent in LOTO and electrical safety under NFPA 70E and OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S.
• Experience with electrical acceptance and maintenance testing to the ANSI/NETA Acceptance Testing Specifications (ATS) and Maintenance Testing Specifications (MTS), including transformer, breaker, relay, cable and battery testing, thermography and ultrasonic surveys.
• Proven root-cause analysis capability using structured methods (fault tree, event and causal factor charting, Apollo/TapRooT or equivalent, FMEA/FMECA) with the discipline to distinguish failure symptom, mode, mechanism and root cause.
• Working command of the governing standards: NFPA 70 (NEC), NFPA 70B (Electrical Equipment Maintenance), NFPA 70E, NFPA 110/111; IEEE 3007.2, IEEE 493 (Gold Book), IEEE 1584 (arc flash), IEEE C37 and C57 series, IEEE 450/1188/1106 (batteries); ANSI/NETA ATS, MTS and ETT; Uptime Institute Tier and TIA-942 practices; ISO 55001.
• Has built and loaded asset maintenance strategies into a CMMS (Fiix preferred; Maximo, SAP PM) and worked with EPMS and power-quality data; familiar with reliability analytics — MTBF/MTTR, Weibull, Pareto and bad-actor analysis, P-F interval and condition-based strategy design.
• Has written operating limits and defended a maintenance frequency to an OEM and a site lead; has designed or run a self-perform maintenance model against an OEM service agreement, including the responsibility matrix, qualification criteria and warranty-protection conditions.
• Clear, measured communicator able to work with technicians, site engineers, OEMs, NETA firms and executives.

Other important requirements

• Pre-employment screening, including background check and substance testing may be required according to company policies.
• Regular travel to the Childress campus and other IREN sites is required; availability to support electrical incidents outside normal hours as needed.

Benefits

At IREN, we offer a comprehensive, market-competitive total rewards package designed to support employees’ well-being, career advancement, and financial wealth. Our offerings reflect our commitment to Proceed with Purpose while rewarding high performance and long-term growth. 

Compensation 

• Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications.
• Relocation and Living-out-allowance (as applicable and based on successful candidate circumstances)

Health & Wellness 

• 100% company paid health insurance premiums (medical, dental, and vision) for employees, 75% company paid coverage for dependents
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) – when combined with the High-Deductible Health Plan
• Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources

Retirement& Financial Wealth 

• 401(k)  retirement plan with company match
• Paid professional development and access to financial planning and legal services

Time Off& Leave Programs 

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

Growth& Development 

• Professional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role related training

Community& Culture 

• Company events and team-building activities

We value diverse perspectives and believe that skills can be developed. If you’re passionate about this role, we want to hear from you — whether you meet every criteria or not. Your unique experiences might be exactly what we need!   
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