Critical Environment Program Manager

Microsoft Oy; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft Oy seeks a dynamic professional to lead critical environment operations across Helsinki sites. The role emphasizes coordinating site operations, engineering, construction, and vendors to drive readiness, audits, and continuous improvement.

You will monitor actions, risks, and milestones to ensure timely delivery while maintaining high standards of safety and compliance. The position requires fluency in Finnish and English, with strong program management skills to plan, track, and

Qualifications

• Experience in datacenter, critical environment, facilities, construction, or infrastructure operations.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex, large-scale projects across multiple stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams.
• Fluency in reading, writing, and conversational Finnish and English.
• Program management skills: planning, tracking actions, managing risks, and driving deliverables to completion.
• Ability to collaborate with operations, engineering, safety, security, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build working relationships with site operations, engineering, construction, vendors, safety, security, and leadership stakeholders.
• Coordinate and drive critical environment programmes, projects, audits, readiness activities, and operational improvement initiatives across Helsinki sites.
• Track actions, risks, dependencies, and milestones to ensure deliverables are completed on time and to the required standard.
• Support compliance with critical environment standards, operational policies, procedures, and site-readiness requirements.
• Coordinate CE audits, compliance verifications, and follow-up remediation actions.
• Identify operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and drive mitigation plans with the relevant teams.
• Support cost, energy efficiency, reliability, and resilience improvement initiatives.
• Prepare and maintain routine reporting on CE programme status, risks, KPIs, objectives, and improvement actions.
• Act as a coordination and escalation point for CE-related issues, ensuring the right stakeholders are engaged and actions are followed through.
• Provide input and recommendations on critical environment design, equipment, construction methods, operational readiness, and maintainability.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Bilingual Finnish and English

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Responsibilities

Build working relationships with site operations, engineering, construction, vendors, safety, security, and leadership stakeholders. Coordinate and drive critical environment programmes, projects, audits, readiness activities, and operational improvement initiatives across Helsinki sites. Track actions, risks, dependencies, and milestones to ensure deliverables are completed on time and to the required standard. Support compliance with critical environment standards, operational policies, procedures, and site-readiness requirements. Coordinate CE audits, compliance verifications, and follow-up remediation actions. Identify operational risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure, and drive mitigation plans with the relevant teams. Support cost, energy efficiency, reliability, and resilience improvement initiatives. Prepare and maintain routine reporting on CE programme status, risks, KPIs, objectives, and improvement actions. Act as a coordination and escalation point for CE-related issues, ensuring the right stakeholders are engaged and actions are followed through. Provide input and recommendations on critical environment design, equipment, construction methods, operational readiness, and maintainability.

Qualifications

Experience in datacenter, critical environment, facilities, construction, or infrastructure operations.

Proven ability to coordinate complex, large-scale projects across multiple stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams.

This role requires fluency in reading, writing, and conversational Finnish and English, as all business operations and stakeholder communications are conducted in these languages Program management skills, including planning, tracking actions, managing risks, and driving deliverables to completion.

Ability to work effectively with operations, engineering, safety, security, and leadership.

Good understanding of critical environment principles, operational risk, change management, and site readiness.

You will be required to travel between sites as part of this role so a valid driver’s license will be required.

These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Experience working with the operation of building cooling, electrical, mechanical, and life safety systems
• Project management or relevant certification/training in project management
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in applicable engineering field or mechanical or electrical trades
• Experience in datacenter, critical environment, facilities, construction, or infrastructure operations.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex, large-scale projects across multiple stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams.
• Fluency in Finnish and English (reading, writing, conversational).
• Program management skills: planning, tracking actions, managing risks, driving deliverables to completion.
• Ability to collaborate with operations, engineering, safety, security, and leadership.
• Understanding of critical environment principles, operational risk, change management, site readiness.
• Willingness to travel between sites; valid driver’s license.
• On-site requirement with limited public transport at the location.
• Security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check.