Critical Facilities Engineer

At Verda, we're building a full-stack AI cloud, covering everything from data centers and hardware to our own cloud platform that the world's leading AI teams use to do serious AI work. We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco. Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished. WHY VERDA - Cash and equity compensation along with local benefits. - 40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team. - A real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem. PRACTICALITIES - Location: Verda's data center site in Kymenlaakso Region, Finland | Relocation support available - Employment: Full time, Permanent - Work model: On site ABOUT THE ROLE As Critical Facilities Engineer, you'll be the hands-on engineer who keeps power and cooling running at Verda's site in Finland. Day to day, you'll work alongside our outsourced facilities vendor, check the quality of their work, supervise maintenance windows, and be the first technical response when something goes wrong with power or cooling. The site is growing and you'll support the facilities side of that buildout, including handovers from construction and deployment, so each capacity step is ready to run when it goes live. You'll hold permit-to-work and EHS authority together with the Site Critical Facilities Manager, and cover for each other during one another's absence. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES - Incident response: Be the first technical response to power and cooling events, including electrical, mechanical and liquid cooling faults, and share the facilities on-call rota with the Site Critical Facilities Manager. - Vendor oversight: Check the work of the outsourced facilities vendor on site and hold it to the agreed standard. - Maintenance windows: Supervise planned maintenance and change work on live power and cooling, from planning through to safe return to service. - Safety and authorised person duties: Hold permit-to-work and EHS authority together with the Site Critical Facilities Manager, and keep the site compliant with its permits and regulations. - Liquid cooling: Operate and maintain our liquid cooling systems, and help improve how we run them. - Buildout: Support the facilities side of the expansion, including construction handovers, commissioning checks and deployment readiness. - Records: Keep accurate records of inspections, incidents, permits and handovers. YOUR KEY COMPETENCIES - Hands-on experience in electrical, mechanical or plumbing (MEP) facilities work in a live data center or comparable mission-critical or industrial environment - Experience with liquid cooling systems at an engineer level - Experience being first on the scene during live power or cooling incidents, with the judgement to stabilise the situation and escalate it properly - Experience supervising contractor or vendor work and signing off on quality - Working knowledge of permit-to-work, isolations and site safety practices - A strong safety mindset and a structured, documentation-minded way of working - Professional working proficiency in English - Willingness to work fully on site and take part in the on-call rota NICE TO HAVE - A construction or commissioning background, especially with handover experience - Experience with high-density AI/GPU environments - Experience on either side of a facilities vendor model, as client or as vendor - A technical degree (e.g. electrical or mechanical engineering) or equivalent experience - Relevant Finnish electrical qualifications, and certifications such as Uptime Institute, CDCP/CDFOM, NEBOSH/IOSH, first aid, or the Finnish occupational safety card WHAT'S NEXT We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now. Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don't accept applications sent by email.