Data Center Facilities Manager (English, Bahasa)

Google; Sungai Buloh; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Data Center team in Malaysia seeks an experienced professional to lead compliance, operations and cost-effective engineering for critical facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Sungai Buloh. You will coordinate with global teams to uphold standards, optimize electrical and HVAC systems, and drive initiatives that reduce environmental impact while maintaining reliability and safety.

Experience with data center operations and managing cross-functional teams, plus strong communication in English

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 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.).
• 2 years of experience managing technical teams and vendors in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.
• Ability to communicate in English and Bahasa fluently, to support client relationship management in this region.

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 to make recommendations for data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

4 years experience in data center ops

2 years experience managing technicals

English & Bahasa fluently

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 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.).
• 2 years of experience managing technical teams and vendors in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.
• Ability to communicate in English and Bahasa fluently, to support client relationship management in this region.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 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.).
• 2 years of experience managing technical teams and vendors in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.
• Ability to communicate in English and Bahasa fluently, to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certification in Registered Energy Manager (REM).
• Experience in collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Understanding of the operations and maintenance of electrical, control systems, and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Understanding of compliance, electrical safety, critical infrastructure, electrical engineering, maintenance, finance, budget management.
• Ability to set, prioritize, achieve business objectives, and to develop and grow team members, through coaching, mentoring, and training.
• Excellent critical thinking skills.

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.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an 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 to make recommendations for data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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At Google, we don’t just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Interested to learn more about diversity at Google? Find out more at http://www.google.com/diversity/.

Google is not a conventional company, and we don’t intend to become one. True, we share attributes with the world’s most successful organizations – a focus on innovation and smart business practices comes to mind – but even as we continue to grow, we’re committed to retaining a small-company feel. At Google, we know that every employee has something important to say, and that every employee is integral to our success. We provide individually-tailored compensation packages that can be comprised of competitive salary, bonus, and equity components, along with the opportunity to earn further financial bonuses and rewards.

Googlers thrive in small, focused teams and high-energy environments, believe in the ability of technology to change the world, and are as passionate about their lives as they are about their work. For more information, visit www.google.com/careers.

At Google, we don’t just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Interested to learn more about diversity at Google? Find out more at http://www.google.com/diversity/.