Data Center Operations Facilities Manager (English, Bahasa)

Google Inc.; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 167,400 - 234,360; Full time

Job summary

Google is hiring a Data Center Operations Facilities Manager (English, Bahasa) in Malaysia to lead compliance and operations for global data center sites. The role emphasizes managing electrical, mechanical, and control infrastructure, and mentoring junior team members in a dynamic, multinational environment.

You will collaborate with regional teams to drive cost-efficient, safe, and reliable facility operations, while improving overall data center performance.

Qualifications

• 8 years of data center operations or related technical experience.
• 5 years leading technical teams and managing vendors.
• Ability to communicate in English and Bahasa fluently.

Responsibilities

• Lead compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally.
• Monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and ensure effective response to excursions.
• Develop strategies to keep operating costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site.
• Drive site-level development of programs and initiatives and ensure global adherence to policies.
• Provide recommendations for data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations.

Skills

English fluency

Bahasa fluency

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Job description

Data Center Operations Facilities Manager (English, Bahasa)

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in data center operations or other relevant operational experience in non-data center 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.
• Ability to communicate in English and Bahasa fluently, to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certification in Registered Energy Manager (REM).
• 5 years of experience in managing technical teams as a team lead or manager and ability to develop and grow team members through coaching, mentoring, and training.
• Experience in collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Experience in oil and gas/semiconductor with critical infrastructure.
• Understanding of the operations and maintenance of electrical, control systems, and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Ability to set, prioritize, and achieve business objectives.

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

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