Amazon Sr Water Design Engineer DC Engineering 

Ireland, Dublin 

269948820

In this role you will influence water chemistry and treatment, coordinating with design engineering colleagues, 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 mechanical 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 hydronic systems. You will review 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 building and fire 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.
Key job responsibilities
• Driving improvement of design standards and project approaches across the organization.
• 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).
• 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.
• Coordinating with construction, commissioning, and risk management teams to answer requests for information and value engineering queries.
• 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 treatement features.
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• Bachelor’s degree in a field related to Chemical/Process and/or Mechanical engineering degree in a related field with at least 10 years additional qualifying experience.
• Cumulative 10+ years of experience in design engineering or the construction industry, related to water quality and chemical treatment
• Have experience in production of site and campus water mass balances (supply and discharge management) to inform other DCE stakeholders on the Basis of Design for water infrastructure, chemical treatment processes and compliance needs relating to water with a strong understanding in water treatment design solutions and scaling
• Experience applying local water laws and codes, International Code Council (ICC) requirements, and other water treatment industry standards, procedures, and methodologies
• Experience with processes of design review, specification, development of design standards, and submittal review including ability to read and understand construction documents for all trades (design drawings, control diagrams, specifications, etc.)

• Experience directly related to process design, construction and maintenance of water systems within water treatment scope, ideally relating to application in industrial conditions, manufacturing, critical medical infrastructure, industrial, construction, or oil and gas.
• Technical experience of a range of treatment technologies including water softening, multi-media-filtration, pH correction, membrane-based treatment, disinfection (UV, AOP, Ozone),
• Experience with performance-based alternatives to prescriptive water treatment design.