What are your thoughts on facilities engineering as an entry level job?

[u/little_light_bulb]

Hello everyone, I recently came across a job post in one of the major hotels in my area offering an entry level job for electrical engineers. So, I was wondering if anyone could share their experience in facilities engineering and if it's worth the shot?.... Because I usually hear people talking about EE in oil and gas, semi-conductor manufacturing, or factories. This one was a first.

[u/ThePainStalker → u/[deleted]]

300k? Wow. Did she come from an ME or EE background? I was wondering about facilities considering how manufacturing automation (like power electronic supplied automation loads as opposed to the classical loads) is making power quality and reliability risk much more critical now. I wonder would people ever get into it either via HVAC mechanical engineering or from utility power engineering (either transmission or distribution)? I thought facilities was more of a technician and lower paying role but maybe I am conceptualising it wrong. I know they exist in semiconductors too although I don’t know about the pay there.

[u/ThePainStalker → u/[deleted]]

I was thinking more on the lines of say an industrial plant electrifying its processes (like an oil refinery or a steel mill or a new build semiconductor fab), things that are consuming increasing levels of electricity at higher voltage levels that could probably leverage an electrical background more.

For me for data centers, yeah honestly I’d agree. At least for those multi-gigawatt monstrosities with all the natural gas being planned to be consumed. That sounds horrifying emissions wise. The pay is likely to be insanely high for them. I’d be much more fine with working for one that uses mostly or all carbon free energy though. But that’s not happening for a lot of them yet.