Amazon Design Engineering Manager 

Ireland, Dublin 

407400539

Your tasks in this role include:- Driving process improvements across the organization.
- Manage fire protection team for EMEA- Providing reports to senior leadership on the results and metrics, inputting to QBRs and OLR
- Developing special projects and assist senior engineers with detailed calculations for special projects
- This position will involve routine travel, every other month within EMEA region, plus an annual trip to either the APAC or AMER regions.
- Understands the key aspects of status quo data center mechanical systems to the extent that key sources of: high capital/operational costs, reduced efficiencies, high-levels of maintenance, security issues and safety risks can be identified as improvement areas in next-generation data center designs.- Provide direct influence over the mechanical design and construction of new data centers and general capital endeavors- Create product & project specifications, requests for proposals, and capital requests
- Work closely with hardware designers to optimize the interfaces between the IT equipment and the facility as well as understand the future trends and initiatives in IT equipment technology
- Provide total project management and oversight of construction, including ownership of the project scope, timeline, and budget

5+ years of managing mechanical or electrical engineering design teams responsible for power delivery systems, cooling plants, air handling equipment, and piping systems in data centers.
Experience with people management and hiring and developing the best
5+ years experience with supplier negotiation, stakeholder management and management associated with construction and project execution.
Experience with large scale industrial or commercial cooling distribution systems
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related scientific field.

- Excellent communication and writing skills
- 5+ years of engineering experience in the design or construction of data centers.
- Ability to research and model new designs, technologies, and construction methods of data center equipment and facilities
- Ability to carry new design concepts through exploration, development, deployment and mass production.
- Ability to define data center system-level architecture, specify and document performance and equipment requirements, create and communicate conceptual designs, and create and maintain project documentation.
- Ability to produce analyses and define validation tests that ensure designs satisfy defined requirements, including design margin estimation of power & cooling performance.
- Experience with the design or operation of power-delivery, building management systems or building control systems
- Experience in reliability engineering of power-delivery equipment, mechanical equipment and large scale mechanical systems
- Statistically analyze large data sets to validate thermal and mechanical performance of critical data center systems as well as characterizing environmental conditions for use in equipment specifications.
- Ability and willingness to think outside of the box to find creative and innovative solutions to reduce costs with no impact on quality and reliability.
- Ability to perform complex business case analysis to justify the project scope and present the justification to management in a high-level review.
- An in-depth understanding of heat transfer and fluid dynamics and an ability to interpret the results of CFD analysis.
- Experience with fast track design/build projects and or multiple significant upgrade projects.
- Experience with large scale technical operations or large-scale compute farms
- Experience designing mechanical economization technologies
- An in-depth understanding of structural design and an ability to interpret the results of FE analysis.
- Project Management Professional Certification or training
- Knowledge of building codes and regulations including Life Safety, BOCA, NFPA, NEC, and OSHA
- Experience in the design, installation, operation, or commissioning of the following equipment is highly desired: chillers, cooling towers, CRAC units, chilled water loops, mechanical plant sequence of operations, centrifugal pumps, piping design, piping design installation methods, air handling units and duct sizing.