Asset Management Engineer

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

In the Asset Management Engineer role, you will have an opportunity to work alongside a dynamic team of industry professionals across the Critical Environments (CE) spectrum within Microsoft’s 24x7x365 mission-critical datacenters (DCs). You will be serving as a mission critical infrastructure subject-matter-expert with accountabilities that include, but are not limited to, development, maintenance, and delivery of global programs. Your primary focus will be to drive the safe, secure, and reliable maintenance and operation of our critical infrastructure equipment, ultimately driving maintenance strategies that are in alignment with Reliability Centered Maintenance practices that ensure the business can support the unprecedented growth demand. You will monitor the execution of these programs and identify opportunities for continuous improvements. You will be expected to leverage your industry experience along with knowledge from industry governing bodies in developing these programs. You will be expected to document and implement best practices and learnings from the field as they apply to Microsoft’s global mission critical infrastructure.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

This role is located either in one or all hub locations – Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.

This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%.

Responsibilities

Asset Management:

Optimize maintenance and replacement strategies to minimize the total cost of ownership of critical assets.

Responsible for maintaining a current and accurate database of critical CE assets.

Responsible for setting database field requirements for owned equipment types.

Regular evaluation and reporting of condition and health of CE assets.

Develop a framework and identify key performance indicators that determine the risk profiles for CE Assets and DCs, considering factors such as equipment age, asset work order efficiency, reliability trends, impact of failure, datacenter (DC) design, supply chain constraints, etc.

Work with partner teams and field operations to deliver risk mitigation plans for identifiedhigh risk areas.

Analyze costs associated with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, and disposal of assets along with forecasting large scale equipment refresh needs/end of life planning.

Tracking the performance of assets to ensure they meet operational requirements.

Global Maintenance Strategies and Programs:

Development and distribution of overarching and asset specific maintenance strategies aligned to the fundamentals of reliability centered maintenance.

Collaborate with key stakeholder teams to drive improvements and consolidate input.

Conduct cost and risk assessments to set direction for maintenance service resource selection, specifically referring to selecting suppliers or building the capability of on-site operators to perform. 

Develop and maintain critical spares lists for critical equipment, setting direction and requirements for minimum stock levels, availability, etc.

Optimizing global maintenance programs to maximize fleet value while minimizing wasted effort through the identification and prioritization of value-added maintenance activities.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

12 years relevant technical project management, program management, mission critical electrical infrastructure operation and maintenance, or electrical engineering experience

OR Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5 years technical engineering experience

OR Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 4 years technical engineering experience

OR Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 2 years technical engineering experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

Advanced ability to create clear, consistent, and understandable technical documentation to be leveraged by partner teams.

Advanced understanding of large-scale critical infrastructure.

Experience creating and/or executing large-scale maintenance and reliability programs.

Professional certifications such as Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), Professional Engineer (PE), Chartered Engineer (CEng), or Project Management Professional (PMP).

Experience in management, engineering, or operations of hyperscale mission critical environments.

Proven experience communicating with key stakeholders and senior leadership.

Ability to analyze large sets of data with experience utilizing PowerBI for data analysis.

Proven experience driving standards and consensus across teams and disciplines.

Proven ability to manage, prioritize and successfully execute multiple concurrent mission-critical projects.

Reliability Engineering IC4 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 – $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 – $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 8, 2024.

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