Operations Readiness Lead for Data Centre Projects

CDC Data Centres Pty; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CDC Academy

CDC Day

Parental Leave

Volunteer Leave

Employment Assistance Program

CDC Social Events

Job summary

CDC Data Centres is seeking an Operations Readiness Specialist to support assurance, audit documentation, and site best practices, ensuring consistent readiness across our facilities. This role sits within the Operations Engineering team and focuses on defining compliance criteria and risk-informed outcomes.

You will lead cross-functional readiness activities, drive improvements, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure seamless transitions from delivery to operations, with a strong emphasis

Qualifications

• Experience in construction, infrastructure, data centre, facilities, or trade services coordination/program management.
• Experience designing, implementing, and monitoring performance and assurance metrics.
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into understandable processes and terms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the operational readiness and acceptance of major projects, ensuring a seamless transition from delivery into operations.
• Coordinate stakeholders across construction, commissioning and operational teams to drive readiness activities, manage risks and achieve key milestones.
• Manage the Ready for Operations (RFO) process across assigned transition programs, ensuring requirements, documentation and acceptance criteria are met before handover.
• Monitor and report on project readiness, including risks, actions, compliance obligations and operational acceptance outcomes.
• Continuously improve operational readiness frameworks, governance processes and assurance activities to support consistent delivery across the portfolio.

Skills

Data centre experience

Stakeholder coordination

Compliance & audit readiness

Data analytics with Power BI

Documentation & reporting

Tools

Power BI

Data modelling tools

Job description

CDC Data Centres is seeking an Operations Readiness Specialist to support assurance, audit documentation, and site best practices, ensuring consistent readiness across our facilities. This role sits within the Operations Engineering team and focuses on defining compliance criteria and risk-informed outcomes.

You will lead cross-functional readiness activities, drive improvements, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure seamless transitions from delivery to operations, with a strong emphasis