Technical Operations Manager, Third Party Data Center Facilities (English)

Google LLC; Frankfurt; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Data Center team at Google LLC designs and operates critical electrical, mechanical and HVAC systems in world-class facilities. Facility Technicians monitor, inspect, and repair data center systems, assisting senior technicians and reading blueprints to assess system status.

We seek a Technical Operations Manager with 9 years of experience in mission-critical maintenance, a technical degree, and fluent English to lead global initiatives, assess risks, forecast resources, and optimize costs

Qualifications

• 9 years of experience in mission-critical facility maintenance and operations.
• Associate's degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical equipment operation in data centers.
• Lead compliance activities for data centers globally and ensure teams follow project guidelines and standards.
• Monitor data center systems operations and control site activities to minimize risk and ensure proper response to excursions.
• Ensure sites follow global facility, maintenance, and standard programs and drive improvements.
• Develop strategies to minimize operational costs, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at sites.

Skills

English fluency

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent in a technical field

Job description

Technical Operations Manager, Third Party Data Center Facilities (English)

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• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience working in mission-critical facility maintenance and operations.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in data center environments, including building and operating infrastructure.
• Experience in initiating and executing strategic initiatives in a global environment.
• Ability to perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party sites.
• Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

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.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical complex equipment operation for data center domain of expertise.
• Lead efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally, ensuring regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
• Monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any excursions.
• Ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
• Drive 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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