Lead Facility Engineer (Data Center)

Adecco (Portugal); Batam; On-site; IDR 350,000,000 - 550,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Adecco (Portugal) is seeking a Lead Facility Engineer (Mechanical) to operate, maintain, and improve critical data centre infrastructure ensuring 24/7 uptime. You will oversee mechanical systems performance, investigate incidents, and drive optimization to meet strict reliability standards.

You will lead technicians, coordinate shift coverage, mentor staff, and ensure compliance with local regulations. Strong English and a background in mechanical/Electrical trades are required for this critical

Qualifications

• 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 SOPs, MOps, EOP, incident reports, and CAPEX/OPEX budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead data centre daily operation and maintenance of mechanical systems (cooling tower, chillers, CRAH, PAHU, CDU, pumps, FCU, valves, piping).
• Ensure mechanical systems operate within parameters and meet 100% SLA uptime for IT load.
• Perform inspections, trend analysis, and capacity verification; manage mechanical incidents and thermal events.
• Provide leadership for facilities technicians and manage shift coverage; prioritize tasks.
• Mentor engineers and technicians through training and performance reviews.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations for mechanical systems.
• Drive efficiency initiatives (chiller staging, delta-T optimization, CDU water quality, air flow management).
• Support new builds, expansions, retrofits; review designs, diagrams, MSRA/MOP/EOP/OMM.
• Witness commissioning tests (FAT, SAT, IST).
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders; liaise with vendors and contractors.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

English fluency

Change management

Asset management

Education

Electrical or Mechanical trade background or degree

Tools

CMMS

BMS/DCIM

Job description

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