RedCloud Consulting is a global business and technology consulting firm that partners with high-growth mid-market companies and global enterprises to solve complex business challenges. The Controls Engineer will provide senior-level controls and electrical engineering support for large-scale mission-critical facilities, focusing on the design, localization, and operational improvement of power monitoring and control systems.
Responsibilities:
- Review and support the technical development of power monitoring systems for large scale data center campuses, including planning, design reviews, specification compliance, and network reliability
- Review and support the technical development of SCADA and control systems
- Review internal engineering specifications and vendor compliance documentation
- Oversee architect and engineering design consultants and provide direction or escalation in alignment with established engineering standards
- Peer review consultant deliverables including drawings, specifications, sequences of operations, calculations, and models and provide documented comments and resolutions
- Identify and advise on value engineering opportunities that improve cost, constructability, or long term operations
- Create rapid conceptual sketches and visualizations using industry tools to support spatial and dimensional validation and improve internal communication
- Lead or support controls related projects, outage response, and system improvements for operational facilities
- Act as an engineering representative supporting operations stakeholders
- Review post incident reports, root cause analyses, and presentations and provide recommendations
- Develop upgrade and improvement options with fleetwide impact to improve reliability and availability of critical infrastructure
- Analyze operational trend data and historian logs to assess equipment health, remaining useful life, and predictive failure indicators
- Partner with construction, design, and change management teams to compile, prioritize, and resolve construction driven engineering issues
- Support the development and distribution of engineering bulletins to communicate design updates
- Contribute to continuous improvement loops between standard design, construction execution, and operations
- Manage internal issue tracking tools to log, track, and close engineering issues
- Develop technical presentations to communicate findings, evaluations, and solution options to internal stakeholders
- Use spreadsheet tools to perform engineering calculations, analysis, and tabular evaluations
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent is required
- Fifteen or more years of experience in the design, construction, and commissioning of power monitoring systems and power quality meters
- Strong experience specifying and supporting electrical distribution equipment including switchgear, switchboards, panelboards, cables, monitoring equipment, generators, variable frequency drives, uninterruptible power supplies, and transformers
- Experience performing power system analysis using common engineering software tools
- Proficiency with drafting and modeling tools such as CAD or BIM
- Working knowledge of cross functional coordination with structural, civil, mechanical, architectural, IT, telecommunications, and security teams
- Experience with mission critical facilities design and construction preferred