Data Centre Technician — Mechanical and Refrigeration (HVAC) (Western Cape)

2024/09/13
Reference Number
HVACCT01
Description

Data Centre Management

  • Comply to working methods ensuring all SLA and MSA's are achieved 
  • Management of data centre infrastructure to provide a concurrently maintainable, cost effective system supporting 99.999% electrical uptime and 99.99% mechanical uptime

Compliance

  • Maintain compliance in accordance to all relative policies and procedures 
  • Meet agreed inter-departmental OLA (Operational Level Agreement) 
  • H&S monitoring an corrective action to meet statutory compliance, SLAS and good business practice

Critical Systems Management

  • Ensure applicable planned and corrective maintenance is managed in accordance to ensure customer MSA's and SLA's are achieved 
  • Conduct working methods to maintain agreed PUE levels
  • Task finalisation and report accurately, as per agreed format, quality and within the agreed timelines

Data Centre Ethics

  • Ensure compliance is maintained incorporating industry best practices 
  • Ensure data centre facilities standards are enforced and maintained 
  • Ensure data centre cleaning standards are enforced and maintained

Skills Requirement

  • Excellent technical abilities
  • Effective communication skills, active listener — ability to understand requirements
  • Proactive problem solver, perform rapid and accurate assessments
  • Ability to work independently, as well as being a positive team player
  • Self-motivated
  • Conducts self professionally, exhibits elevated levels of tolerance and patience
  • Responsible for continued learning and self-development
  • Quick response to potentially critical situations
  • Trouble shoot systems and components to identify root causes of failures
  • Implement corrective actions promptly to mitigate the negative effects of system changes
  • Good Microsoft Office skills
Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

  • Refrigeration and Air Conditioning qualification essential
  • Electrical qualification preferable
  • Working knowledge on close control units and their associated controls
  • Chiller and chilled water systems knowledge essential
  • Trouble shooting and fault-finding experience essential
  • Controls knowledge would be advantageous
  • Safe handling of refrigeration gasses certificate would be advantageous
  • Minimum 5 years relevant data centre experience preferable
  • Good knowledge on Data Centre environments and critical infrastructure systems preferable
Work Level
Skilled
Job Type
Permanent
Salary
Market Related
EE Position
No
Location
Western Cape