National Data Centre & Field Engineering Lead

Fruition Group; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Fruition Group seeks a Data Centre & Field Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for the core physical infrastructure across the UK network. You will own the estate, data centre operations, and field engineering delivery with contracted partners.

You will manage budgets, safety, and standards, directing a geographically dispersed team and coordinating with sales, product, and service to ensure deliverability. Occasional out-of-hours work is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience running data centre or comparable critical infrastructure, including sites you aren’t based at.
• M&E knowledge: power distribution, UPS, generators, cooling, environmental monitoring.
• Experience directing field engineering across a wide geography: scheduling and dispatch.
• Managing third-party service contracts, including reviews and spend.
• Experience with unmanned or partner-controlled sites such as exchanges and colocation.
• Budget management and delivering work to sign-off.
• Health and safety in a technical environment, including permits to work.
• Proven track record developing operational processes and standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of senior field engineers and coordinators across the UK.
• Oversee data centre estate, data centre operations, and field engineering resource.
• Direct third-party contracts and reviews, controlling spend and standards.
• Forecast capacity, power and cooling; own the data centre budget.
• Be the senior escalation point for site incidents, including out-of-hours.

Skills

Data centre management

M&E knowledge

Field engineering oversight

Third-party contracts

Unmanned/partner sites

Budget management

Health and safety

People management

Stakeholder communication

Site travel & out-of-hours

Job description

Fruition Group seeks a Data Centre & Field Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for the core physical infrastructure across the UK network. You will own the estate, data centre operations, and field engineering delivery with contracted partners.

You will manage budgets, safety, and standards, directing a geographically dispersed team and coordinating with sales, product, and service to ensure deliverability. Occasional out-of-hours work is expected.