
Data Center Facility Manager
Application completed on Google
About This Role
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
* Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical
experience.
* 8 years of experience in data center operations or other relevant operational
experience in non-DC industries (e.g., power generation, HVAC and
refrigeration, industrial manufacturing, military, oil and gas,
maritime/marine, chemical cluster, etc.).
* 5 years of experience managing technical teams and vendors in charge of
operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and
controls infrastructure and components.
* Experience as a Facilities/Operations Manager or Chief Engineer within a
critical facility.
* Experience in electrical operations.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
* Demonstrated experience in fostering collaborations across business units to
achieve corporate objectives and standards.
* Demonstrated experience managing a Data Center critical facility.
* Extensive experience overseeing a portfolio of mission-critical facilities or
operations.
* Proven expertise in people management and leadership, exhibiting the ability
to influence all organizational levels. A track record of developing and
advancing team members through effective coaching, mentoring, and training.
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 Operations Manager, you will be responsible for
leading and expanding a substantial team in 24x7 data center operations. This
role involves demonstrating the ability to implement and drive the safety
culture at the site.
Responsibilities include planning and executing campus operational budgets,
forecasting expenses, and managing established budgets, while developing a
strategy for cost-effective operations focused on total cost of ownership. You
will ensure that service level agreements (SLAs) with internal teams on uptime,
efficiencies, and cost are consistently met. Additionally, the role entails
setting strategy and planning deployments across the site, integrating
Google-wide strategy and execution with both internal and external business
partners.
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.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Lead efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze
compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global
teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design
standards.
* Drive efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site
activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any
excursions.
* Drive efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and
standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said
policies and programs.
* Lead 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.
* Incorporate subject matter expertise and experience to make recommendations
for data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations for
next generation data centers.
Required Skills
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