Data Center Facility Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in data center operations or other relevant operational experience in non-data center 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 with the following: Team Building, Team Management, Building High Performance Teams, Facilities Management, People Management and Project Management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Understanding of the operations and maintenance of electrical, control systems, and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Ability to set, prioritize, and achieve business objectives.
• Ability to develop and grow team members, through 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.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute campus operational budgets, expense forecasting and manage established budgets.
• Be responsible for meeting service level agreements (SLAs) with internal teams on uptime, efficiencies and cost.
• Lead efforts to integrate Google-wide strategy and execution with internal and external business partners.
• Create strategy for cost effective operations, focused on total cost of ownership.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and innovation in approaching traditional data center and emergent challenges.