Lead Facility Engineer (Data Center)

Adecco; Batam; On-site; IDR 279,000,000 - 468,720,000; Full time

Job summary

Adecco (Portugal) is seeking a NDP1 Lead Facility Engineer (Mechanical) to oversee operation, maintenance and continuous improvement of mission-critical infrastructure in a data centre. You will monitor real-time performance, troubleshoot issues and ensure system reliability and safety to achieve uptime targets.

Reporting to facilities leadership, you will lead technicians, coordinate incidents, and drive efficiency projects such as chiller optimization and delta-T improvements while

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years in facilities or operations management.
• Fluent English communication during incidents and escalations.
• Electrical or mechanical trade background or degree.
• Experience with maintenance of data centre mechanical systems.
• Ability to manage incidents, RCA, and CAPEX/OPEX budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily data centre operations and mechanical maintenance.
• Oversee cooling towers, chillers, CRAH, CDU, and related systems.
• Ensure uptime with 100% SLA compliance and safety standards.
• Mentor technicians, assign tasks, and manage shifts.
• Coordinate with vendors, contractors, and designers for projects.
• Review designs, MSRA, MOP, SOP, and test witness FAT/SAT.
• Document incidents and perform RCA and reports.

Skills

Facilities/Operations management

Incident management communication

English proficiency

Leadership and mentoring

Vendor and contract management

Change management

Asset management

Technical troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Electrical or mechanical trade background or degree

Tools

CMMS

BMS/DCIM

Job description

About the role

The NDP1 Lead Facility Engineer (Mechanical) role will be responsible for operating, maintaining and improving all mission critical infrastructure (MEP) supporting the 24/7 uptime of Data Centre environments. Responsible for real time monitoring, troubleshooting, and ensuring system reliability and safety.

Key responsibilities

• Lead data centre daily operation and maintenance of mechanical system, including cooling tower, chillers, heat exchanger, CRAH, PAHU, CDU, dehumidifiers, pumps, FCU, valves, pipework, pressurization systems
• Ensure all mechanical systems are operating in required parameters and redundancy for IT load, 100% SLA compliance and uptime
• Perform mechanical system inspection, investigation, trend analysis, and capacity verification, manage all mechanical Incident, Problem and Thermal incidents
• Provide overall leadership for all facilities technicians, assign tasks, manage shift coverage and ensure effective task prioritization
• Mentor and develop engineer, technicians through training, coaching, assessment and review performance
• Ensure all mechanical systems operating compliance with local regulations
• Drive mechanical systems efficiency initiatives including chiller staging, optimization of mechanical systems delta‑T temperature, CDU water quality, white space airflow management
• Support new build, expansion, retrofit, fit‑out projects, review all mechanical designs, drawings, schematics, sequence of operation, MSRA, MOP, SOP, EOP, OMM
• Witness commissioning tests including FAT, SAT, IST
• Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, manage and liaise with mechanical services vendors, contractors, consultants, designers

About you

• 7+ years of experience in facilities or operations management
• Excellent communication during incidents and escalations
• Fluent and able to communicate in English
• Knowledge of electrical or mechanical trade background or degree
• Ability to operate in Critical risk change execution with zero customer impact
• Ability to develop and review Standard of Operations Procedure, Method of Procedure, Emergency of Operations Procedure, Incident Reports, Root Cause Analysis reports, CAPEX/OPEX budget forecast, asset management
• Knowledge of menage MEP, Security, ICT related Change Management
• Experienced in managing technicians, vendors, contractors, setting and managing critical metrics, negotiating quotations and contracts
• Experienced of using Computerised Maintenance Management Systems, Customer Portals, BMS/DCIM
• Ability to effectively manage internal and external customers