Energy Efficiency Engineer

4 giorni fa

Milano, Provincia di Milano; Lombardia, Italia Data4 Group Tempo pieno

DATA4’S MISSION

Building highly connected, resilient and responsible Data Center campuses to support the growth of our customers in Europe. DATA4 is a major European operator and investor in the Data Centers market. The Group finances, designs, builds and operates its own data centers.

DATA4 VALUES

At DATA4 we are driven by our values. These are the core of everything we do:

  • Initiative – We foster a culture of ownership, autonomy, and proactive execution to deliver clear and measurable results.
  • Responsibility – We act with integrity and accountability, ensuring sustainable, transparent, and responsible operations.
  • Adaptability – We embrace change and continuously evolve our operating models to anticipate future challenges and opportunities.

About The Role

The Energy Efficiency Engineer is responsible for providing the analytical and technical backbone of the group’s energy performance management. The role designs and maintains predictive models for energy KPIs, validates data from monitoring systems, supports root cause analysis on significant deviations and assesses the feasibility of energy efficiency initiatives. The Energy Data & Performance Specialist ensures that energy reports are technically sound and consistent before internal and external distribution, acting as the primary technical reference across all countries in scope.

The role reports directly to the Energy & Resource Operation Manager and operates in a transversal and highly collaborative environment, working closely with Country Operations Directors, Global Operations Team, Finance, IT and Compliance teams to ensure alignment and execution of group-level initiatives.

The position can be based in Cornaredo (Italy) or Alcobendas (Spain)

Key Responsibilities

Energy KPI Modelling & Forecasting

  • Design, develop and maintain predictive models for group energy KPIs (PUE, WUE, CUE, ERF, REF, EnPIs), incorporating relevant variables (such as weather-normalised data, IT load and seasonal patterns, etc.)
  • Own the definition and periodic update of Energy Baselines (EnB) and Energy Performance Indicators (EnPIs), ensuring full methodological traceability across all sites.
  • Drive the continuous improvement of modelling accuracy, integrating operational feedback from site teams and updating assumptions following significant changes in infrastructure or workload.
  • Produce periodic forecasting reports and present findings to the Energy & Resource Operation Manager and relevant stakeholders.

Energy Data Validation & Monitoring

  • Support country teams in identifying, defining, and validating the critical energy parameters required for energy analyses and reporting, ensuring data quality and consistency across monitoring systems (BMS, Databases, Grafana) before data enters reporting flows.
  • Support site OPS teams in the interpretation of monitoring parameters, providing technical guidance on data reliability and measurement correctness.
  • Define and maintain alarm thresholds and anomaly detection logic across all monitored energy parameters, ensuring early identification of performance drifts.
  • Coordinate with IT and BMS teams to resolve data integration issues and ensure continuity and accuracy of energy data flows into central repositories.

Root Cause Analysis & Energy Review

  • Provide technical guidance to country teams in the investigation of significant energy deviations, supporting the development of structured root cause analyses with quantified impact assessment and identification of contributing factors.
  • Support country teams in defining corrective and preventive action plans (CAPA) following RCA findings, providing methodological guidance and monitoring effectiveness over time at group level.
  • Support country teams in conducting periodic Energy Reviews, providing the analytical framework and technical expertise needed to identify and update Significant Energy Uses (SEUs) in response to operational changes across all sites.

Energy Project Feasibility & Report Validation

  • Support country teams in the technical and economic assessment of energy efficiency initiatives (CAPEX/OPEX), providing the analytical methodology and M&V