Staff Mechanical Operator

FluidStack
Austin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 310,000 - 378,000 annuallyFunction: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled TradesExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Extreme ownership","Full autonomy","Root-cause analysis","Preventive maintenance ownership","Calm under high uptime"]

Own mechanical operations on shift for always-on AI data center facilities, serving as the top escalation point for failures across chiller plants, CRAC/CRAH units, air handlers, pumps, and cooling loops. Execute preventive maintenance end to end (scheduling, vendor supervision, lockout/tagout, QA), lead root-cause analysis for mechanical incidents, and update operating procedures (SOPs/MOPs/EOPs). Drive BMS alarm hygiene and trend analysis and close commissioning handovers to steady-state operations.

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FluidStack
FluidStack
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Staff Mechanical Operator

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Job Summary

Own mechanical operations on shift for always-on AI data center facilities, serving as the top escalation point for failures across chiller plants, CRAC/CRAH units, air handlers, pumps, and cooling loops. Execute preventive maintenance end to end (scheduling, vendor supervision, lockout/tagout, QA), lead root-cause analysis for mechanical incidents, and update operating procedures (SOPs/MOPs/EOPs). Drive BMS alarm hygiene and trend analysis and close commissioning handovers to steady-state operations.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own mechanical operations on shift as the top escalation point for failures across chiller plant, CRAC/CRAH, air handler, pump, and cooling loop systems in a live facility.
  • •Run preventive maintenance execution end to end, including scheduling, vendor supervision, lockout/tagout, and QA of completed work with auditable records.
  • •Lead root-cause analysis for mechanical incidents and drive corrective actions to closure, including procedure updates, setpoint changes, and spare parts adjustments.
  • •Build and maintain operating procedures (SOPs, MOPs, EOPs) for mechanical systems and drill them so any operator can execute under failure conditions.
  • •Drive BMS alarm hygiene and trend analysis and close commissioning-to-operations handovers for new mechanical plant systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 310,000 - 378,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of hands-on mechanical or critical facilities operations in data centers, including experience with a hyperscale operator, colocation provider, or cloud data center operations team.
  • •Deep operating knowledge of chillers, cooling towers, CRAC/CRAH units, air handlers, pumps, and hydronic loops, including startup, failover, and recovery under load.
  • •Fluency in BMS platforms, including reading trends, tuning alarms, and diagnosing faults from controls data.
  • •Track record owning root-cause analysis and preventive maintenance programs at scale, not just executing tickets.
  • •Experience as the senior mechanical escalation point on shift, making calls during outages when the runbook runs out.
Experience:8+ yearsData centersHyperscaleColocationCloud infrastructure
Skills:Extreme ownershipFull autonomyRoot-cause analysisPreventive maintenance ownershipCalm under high uptime
Certifications:EPA 608 Universal
Tech Stack:BMSChillersCRACCRAHAir handlersPumpsHydronic loopsDirect-to-chip liquid coolingCDUsLockout/tagoutSOPsMOPsEOPs

Company Brief

FluidStack
Builds and deploys large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure for AI labs, enterprises and governments, providing high-performance AI training and inference capacity and rapid data-center deployment services.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2017
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