Facilities Manager, Data Center Operations

Google; Fredericia Kommune; On-site; DKK 940,000 - 965,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google's Data Center team designs and operates power, cooling, and electrical systems for hyperscale infrastructure. The Facilities Manager will lead critical facility operations, including budget planning, safety, and cross-functional collaboration.

The role requires extensive experience in data center management, leadership, and the ability to influence across teams. Based in Denmark, the position offers equity, a 15% bonus target, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience in critical facilities management, including facility, technical and team management.
• Experience as a Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer within a critical facility.
• Experience managing mission critical facilities portfolio.
• Master's degree in Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute campus operational budgets and expense forecasting, and manage established budgets.
• Set strategy and plan deployments across multiple sites.
• 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 issues.

Skills

People management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

Data center experience

Budget planning

Cost optimization

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Master's degree in Engineering

Job description

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience in critical facilities management, including facility, technical and team management.
• Experience as a Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer within a critical facility.
• Experience managing mission critical facilities portfolio.

Minimum qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience in critical facilities management, including facility, technical and team management.
• Experience as a Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer within a critical facility.
• Experience managing mission critical facilities portfolio.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.

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 force 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Denmark: kr.940000 - kr.965000 (DKK) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute campus operational budgets and expense forecasting, and manage established budgets.
• Set strategy and plan deployments across multiple sites.
• 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 issues.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.