Data Center Facility Manager

Google LLC; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Data Center Facility Operations Manager to lead a large 24x7 team responsible for electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems in a critical facility.

You will drive safety, cost-efficiency and compliance while coordinating with internal partners and vendors to meet SLAs and optimize total cost of ownership across campuses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years in data center operations or related fields (power, HVAC, manufacturing, etc.).
• 5 years managing technical teams and vendors for operating and maintaining infrastructure.
• Experience as Facilities/Operations Manager or Chief Engineer in a critical facility.
• Experience in electrical operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead compliance activities for data centers and analyze global results.
• Monitor systems, control site activities to minimize risk, and respond to excursions.
• Ensure adherence to facility programs, improve policies and programs globally.
• Develop strategies to minimize costs, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact.
• Advise on data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations.
• Drive cost-effective operations aligned with SLAs and total cost of ownership.
• Lead a large 24x7 data center operations team and foster safety culture.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Data center operations

Team management

Vendor management

Facility operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent

Job description

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• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in data center operations or other relevant operational experience in non-DC industries (e.g., power generation, HVAC and refrigeration, industrial manufacturing, military, oil and gas, maritime/marine, chemical cluster, etc.).
• 5 years of experience managing technical teams and vendors in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.
• Experience as a Facilities/Operations Manager or Chief Engineer within a critical facility.
• Experience in electrical operations.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience in fostering collaborations across business units to achieve corporate objectives and standards.
• Demonstrated experience managing a Data Center critical facility.
• Extensive experience overseeing a portfolio of mission-critical facilities or operations.
• Proven expertise in people management and leadership, exhibiting the ability to influence all organizational levels. A track record of developing and advancing team members through effective coaching, mentoring, and training.

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.

As a Data Center Facility Operations Manager, you will be responsible for leading and expanding a substantial team in 24x7 data center operations. This role involves demonstrating the ability to implement and drive the safety culture at the site.

Responsibilities include planning and executing campus operational budgets, forecasting expenses, and managing established budgets, while developing a strategy for cost-effective operations focused on total cost of ownership. You will ensure that service level agreements (SLAs) with internal teams on uptime, efficiencies, and cost are consistently met. Additionally, the role entails setting strategy and planning deployments across the site, integrating Google-wide strategy and execution with both internal and external business partners.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.

Drive efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any excursions.

Drive efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.

Lead 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.

Incorporate subject matter expertise and experience to make recommendations for data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.

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