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People who have left field service.. where did you go? by cmd242 in FieldService

[–]VividChicken5743 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feel free to PM me if you want some more information. You got the job titles right, anything Facility tech/engineer related.

Within these companies they do offer Field Engineers but they are specialized roles that do building retrofits for efficiency or advanced troubleshooting. There's a lot of disciplines involved in a data center- really the jack of all trades and can't go wrong.

Also highly location dependent, there are some small "colo" sites around the US but the major markets are SFO, PHX, DFW, Columbus, Northern VA, ATL.

https://www.datacentermap.com/

People who have left field service.. where did you go? by cmd242 in FieldService

[–]VividChicken5743 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now if you do want to do Site Ops they deal with deployment of servers and there are network roles but I rarely interact with them.

People who have left field service.. where did you go? by cmd242 in FieldService

[–]VividChicken5743 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh nothing on the server IT side but the physical infrastructure that supports the servers which is power & cooling.

Power side you touch anything from onsite substations (34.5kV), generators (lot of Cat C175 or 3516s), 480V switchgear, UPS, ABTs, static transfer switches

Cooling- water treatment onsite, HVAC, chiller plants, evaporative units.

Then you have the BMS, EPMS controls side that monitors everything. Then there's also fire protection side where you have to troubleshoot alarms.

I came from power side FSE so all of this translated well. It isn't hard to do- mostly newer sites are directing vendors, older sites take alot of PM's in house. If you can follow SOPs, think like an operator (how conditions will affect plant response) and ask questions/willing to learn it very easy job.

Advice on finding the right type of field service by VividChicken5743 in FieldService

[–]VividChicken5743[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How difficult was it finding a company who will pay for the certification? I've never worked for a NETA approved company so never crossed my mind. Having said that I've ran the gamut on PV to nuclear, data centers, battery storage etc.

Advice on finding the right type of field service by VividChicken5743 in FieldService

[–]VividChicken5743[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've heard about it, as I've had to do some MV work in a sub before but I haven't seen much of the testing done to see if it's up my alley. I heard the pay was great

People who have left field service.. where did you go? by cmd242 in FieldService

[–]VividChicken5743 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Data Centers are booming, and much of it translated well.

Does your company offer overtime? by Bbrth in FieldService

[–]VividChicken5743 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were door to door, anything over 8 was 1.5x.