DATA CENTER CRITICAL FACILITIES ENGINEER AT EQUINIX NIGERIA- LAGOS

About Company:

Equinix is expanding significantly in Nigeria, building high-performance data centers in Lagos (LG3 opening Q1 2026) as part of a major Africa investment, providing crucial digital infrastructure for cloud, AI, and connectivity, leveraging Lagos's role as a subsea cable hub to link Africa globally. These facilities offer carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection, empowering local and international businesses, including fintechs, to scale and integrate with global digital ecosystems. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Description:

• Applies acquired job skills to work on tasks that are semi-routine in nature.
• Focus is on semi-routine tasks within standard operating procedures.
• Supports the overall team.

Responsibilities
Facility/Infrastructure Maintenance:

• Performs semi-routine preventative maintence checks on-site to non-critical, facility components.
• Performs semi-routine repairs, maintenance and installations to non-critical facility components.
• Monitors the Builiding Monitoring System (BMS) and responds timely to semi-routine alarms according to standard operating procedures.
• Assists more senior staff in higher facility repairs and corrective maintenance measures.
• Operates plumbing, fire suppression, and safety systems, under the supervision of more senior technical staff.
• Normally follows established procedures on routine work, requires instructions only on new assignments.

Vendor Support:

• Coordinates with vendors to ensure maintenance activities are carried out as per Equinix's requirements.
• Supports the work order approval process for service providers on routine maintenance work, for tracking: briefing at the start of work, work during the day workday/shift and final review of the work carried out.
• Ensures vendor maintenance activities are carried out as per Equinix's standard operating procedures.

Site Administration & Incident Support:

• Performs semi-routine site logs for permits, such as Maintenance Operation Protocol (MOPs) and scripts.
• Uses acquired job skills in following operating procedures to support on-site administration.

Work Orders & Additional Projects:

• Completes semi-routine work requests and circuit installations.
• Follows established procedures with troubleshooting and maintaining office equipment (if necessary); supports auxiliary equipment and machines.
• Assists more senior staff with responding on-site incidents and acts as directed.

Collaboration:

• Collaborates with others to resolve semi-routine facility incidents.
• Provides assistance to more senior staff on infrastructure projects.
• Informs stakeholders of inventory needs to maintain stock levels of parts and equipment.

Requirements:

• Electrical and Electronics Engineering or related degree required
• 1-4 years of equivalent work experience.

Salary

Application Closing Date: Not specified

Application Instructions:

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