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You will join a small team providing capacity planning services to our client. As a Data Centre Capacity Planner you will be engaged across 2 Data Centres in the North East with a primary function to review all Workload Placement approvals and Change Requests for equipment installation / de-installation and governing the process of Customer installations / de-installations.
This is a full-time permanent position working Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:30, primarily on-site in Wynyard but also covering the site in Doxford.
Due to the nature of our client's work, the successful candidate must either hold or be willing to obtain SC security clearance.
As a Data Centre Capacity Planner you will:- Review all workload placement approvals and change requests for equipment installation / de-installation
- Govern the process of customer installations / de-installations
- Arrange for installations / de-installations to be carried out by technically qualified parties
- Ensure and verify identification tags are attached for each item of customer equipment
- Review and approve customer’s rack designs, order all necessary technical equipment (i.e. power whips, cabinets)
- Equipment grid placement
- Provide review for proposed solutions to validate requirements and identify potential faults
What we're looking for:- Proven experience supporting Data Centre equipment and / or infrastructure (power, space, cooling, equipment)
- Ability to evaluate all manufacturers’ specifications for equipment new/old in order to assign placement in the Data Centre
- Knowledge of basic electrical requirements and conversions (i.e. kilowatts, amps, phases, etc)
- Experience working in a Structured ITIL and or ISO environment
- Great team work ethic
- Ability to work multiple projects simultaneously
- Proficient in MS-Office Suite including Visio
- Manual handling experience
Desirable skills / qualifications:- Data Centre qualifications up to a degree standard
- Project Management qualifications
- ITIL qualifications
This is an excellent opportunity to join us and as an employee you will gain access to a large library of training courses and accreditations to help further your skills and development.
As an FDS Employee you will benefit from:- Flexible benefits including, private medial and health insurance, basic cover paid by employer
- Free eye test vouchers
- Company pension scheme
- Income protection after 6 months’ service should you be off work due to serious illness
- 23 days holiday rising by 1 day per year to max 25
- Option to purchase / sell additional holiday
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme, free confidential advice covering a range of areas including mental health and financial support
Apply now for consideration!
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