Senior Technical Services Manager

Airtrunk; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AirTrunk in Sydney is seeking a Senior Technical Services Manager to lead maintenance of critical data centre environments. You will report to the Operations Director and guide a site-based team, coordinating with vendors and internal stakeholders to protect uptime, safety and service levels.

You will drive preventive maintenance, manage change and incident procedures, review capacity plans, and ensure documentation and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in data centres or related facilities/engineering operations
• Electrical or mechanical trade background or degree preferred
• Knowledge of local statutory regulations
• Ability to review procedural and maintenance reports, incident reports and budgets
• Ability to read single line diagrams
• Experience managing 3rd party service providers and contracts
• Familiarity with Customer Portals, BMS, CMMS, CAD
• Strong leadership and supervising small teams of technical staff
• Effective partner management
• Customer-centric approach and staff motivation
• Ability to deliver presentations
• Have Security NV1 Clearance or ability to get one (Australian sites only)

Responsibilities

• Oversee critical environment maintenance planning at data centre
• Lead, mentor, and train a team of site-based technical resources and contract management
• Coordinate with Building Services Manager on property matters
• Manage uptime and safety to meet SLAs
• Plan preventive maintenance and repairs; manage change and incident procedures
• Coordinate with development team for construction activities and testing
• Review capacity management plans for power capacity
• Maintain SOPs, MOPs, EOPs and regulatory documentation
• Ensure compliance with accreditations (ISMS, SOC2, PCI, ISO9001, ISO14001)
• Maintain regulatory compliance (environmental, building, fire, electrical, hydraulic, OH&S)
• Act as primary operational contact for customers
• Attend witness testing during commissioning
• Handle provisioning of data centre services
• Run minor capital projects
• Lead maintenance vendors and budget
• Track metrics and risks
• Conduct property inspections
• Promote operational efficiency and power/cost optimization

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Presentations

Customer centric

Team supervision

Contract management

Vendor management

Budget management

Safety compliance

Education

Engineering degree (Electrical/Mechanical)

Electrical or mechanical trade background

Tools

BMS

CMMS

CAD

Job description

Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East’s (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?

AirTrunk is ahyperscale data centre company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.

Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…

Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.

A Snapshot

As the Senior Technical Services Manager (Sr TSM), you will report to the Operations Director and work closely with the rest of the Operations team, making your mark in a number of ways:

• Oversee critical environment maintenance planning activities at your data centre

• Lead, mentor, and train a team of site based technical resources (TSM, Maintenance Manager and Coordinator), and contract management of site facilities providers for the tactical delivery of maintenance activities

• Work closely with Building Services Manager on other property related matters

Your Day to Day

• Effectively manage the site and achieve 100% uptime and compliance with customers’ SLAs and safety

• Oversee the planning and coordination of all preventive maintenance and repair works; ensure change management, incident management procedures and safety requirements are followed; coordinate activities as required with customers

• Coordinate with the development team to manage construction activity and installations, to ensure system design, installation and testing adhere to operational standards

• Review and support customer capacity management plan to ensure power capacity is well maintained and within limitations

• Maintain site operating procedures (SOP, MOP, EOP) and any other documentation required by law, e.g. RA, SWMS and EHS

• Ensure compliance with site held accreditations, including, but not limited to, ISMS, SOC2, PCI, ISO9001, ISO14001

• Maintain compliance with local regulatory requirements including environmental, building, fire, electrical, hydraulic, occupational health & safety

• Primary operational contact for customers and local point of escalation during emergency events and day-to-day operations

• Attend witness testing of all equipment during commissioning to validate sequence of operations

• Receive and review all operational documentation for new capacity

• Handle provisioning of data centre services including connectivity, power services, deployment, and any additional services to be delivered to the data centre customers

• Run minor capital projects for customers/internal purposes

• Lead all maintenance and repair vendors and OPEX budget

• Track operational metrics, data and analyse risks

• Conduct regular property inspections

• Evaluate plans and promote operational efficiency, passion for continuous improvement including power utilisation and cost efficiency

Requirements

• 5+ years experience of managing mechanical and electrical in data centres (preferred), facilities, engineering operations, semiconductor, trades or related fields

• Electrical or mechanical trade background or degree preferred. Solid understanding of data centre infrastructure, including power and cooling systems, fire, and security systems

• Knowledge of local statutory regulations and requirements

• Ability to establish and review Method of Procedure documents, maintenance reports, incident reports, emergency event summaries, root cause analysis reports, CAPEX/OPEX budget forecasts/reports and O&M manuals

• Able to read and comprehend single line diagrams

• Experience running 3rd party service providers; setting and managing critical metrics, negotiating contracts and pricing for services

• Familiarity with Customer Portals, BMS, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, CAD is a plus

• Good leadership and experience in supervising small teams of technical staff

• Effective key partner management experience

• Strong customer centric approach, and ability to drive front-line staff attitude change

• Ability to deliver effective presentations

• Have Own Security NV1 Clearance or ability to get one (Australian sites only)

The AirTrunk Culture

Working at AirTrunk is a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and amplify your impact. Whilst you’re helping scale our region’s digital future, we’ll help you Grow@Hyperscale and unleash your full potential.

The pace in which we operate means you’ll feel an electric atmosphere at AirTrunk. We are a team of challengers and collaborative problem solvers who break new ground every day. We do this by living our values, going above and beyond, and being dynamic, transparent, and responsive.

Every AirTrunker brings their own unique background and diverse perspective to find solutions to problems that matter. We make sure you have everything you need to make your mark and thrive in a flexible and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome. Our benefits empower AirTrunkers to stay positively charged.

Now’s your chance to Grow@Hyperscale.

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