Director of Facilities Engineering – Data Centers

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $150k - $180k / year

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EZ Blockchain

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Construction

EZ Blockchain is a leader in sustainable cryptocurrency mining and hosting solutions. The company provides advanced data centers that convert wasted energy from oil, gas, solar, wind, and nuclear sources into cryptocurrency, thus helping energy producers meet compliance requirements while creating new revenue streams. With innovative technologies like immersion cooling and grid balancing, EZ Blockchain combines efficiency with environmental responsibility to optimize crypto mining operations.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering strategy, design, reliability, and operation of mission-critical infrastructure supporting AI data center campuses • Create and lead the portfolio-wide facilities engineering program for greenfield campuses, powered-shell projects, modular deployments, expansions, and selected retrofit opportunities • Develop repeatable campus architecture, design standards, technical specifications, and design guidelines adaptable to utility systems, climates, site constraints, schedules, and customer requirements • Serve as senior technical owner from site screening and diligence through design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and initial operating readiness • Build internal engineering capability and external partner networks for parallel project delivery • Provide strategic direction for facilities operations across multiple AI Factories and ensure 24/7 uptime and operational excellence • Plan and execute standardized infrastructure for new data center buildouts, colocation expansions, and data center expansions • Build and lead electrical, mechanical, controls, and reliability engineering teams • Oversee electrical distribution, UPS, generators, cooling systems, BMS, EPMS, DCIM, and fire protection systems • Design and optimize infrastructure for high-density GPU and liquid-cooled AI environments, including direct-to-chip cooling and racks up to 150 kW • Drive reliability engineering, predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, and asset lifecycle management • Provide technical oversight for construction, expansion, commissioning, and modernization projects • Improve energy efficiency by optimizing PUE, WUE, and sustainability • Ensure compliance with applicable codes, standards, and engineering best practices • Manage engineering budgets, technical vendors, consultants, and capital improvement programs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field • 10+ years of engineering experience in mission-critical facilities, data centers, industrial, or power infrastructure • 7+ years leading multidisciplinary engineering teams • Strong expertise in electrical and mechanical systems supporting high-availability environments • Experience with hyperscale, AI, or HPC data center infrastructure • Knowledge of engineering design, commissioning, and reliability engineering practices • Preferred: Master's degree in engineering, Engineering Management, or MBA • Preferred: Professional Engineer (PE) license • Preferred: Industry certifications such as CEM, CDCP/CDCMP, PMP, or LEED AP

🏖️ Benefits

• Health (medical, dental, vision) • PTO • Sick leave • Maternal/Paternal Leave • FSA/HSA • 401K • Supplemental Options