Data Center Facility Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• 8 years of experience planning and executing campus operational budgets, expense forecasting, and managing established budgets.
• 5 years of experience meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal teams on uptime, efficiencies, and cost.
• Experience managing technical teams in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field or equivalent experience.
• Experience in mission-critical systems operations, including power generation, data center, refinery, chip fabrication, chemical processing, or other high-consequence environments.
• Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.

About the job

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and HVAC systems in the world. Facility Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some duties will include heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control and monitoring systems. You regularly help inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components). You'll provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.

You will develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.

As a Data Center Facility Manager, you will lead and grow a large team in 24x7 data center operations. In this role, you will manage the life cycle of our computing, network, and storage infrastructure in environmentally friendly facilities. You will design strategies to reduce operational costs while improving overall efficiency. This position requires a visionary leader who can optimize operations, drive continuous improvements, and deliver infrastructure at unparalleled scale and reliability to empower global users.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $138000 - $201000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and ensure effective response to any excursions.
• Own the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with driving site-level development of programs and initiatives.
• Own efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally, ensuring teams comply with project/schedule guidelines and design standards.
• Lead efforts to ensure all sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
• Incorporate subject matter expertise and experience to make recommendations for data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.

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