Senior Data Center Operations Manager

QTS Data Centers; Het Hogeland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

EUR 5,250 training bursary

Company car scheme

Pension scheme with Allianz

Occupational disability allowance

Voluntary health insurance

Voluntary pet insurance

Bonus and equity eligibility

Job summary

QTS Data Centers seeks a Senior Data Center Operations Manager to lead facility strategy, maintenance governance, and continuous improvement for critical electrical, mechanical, and life-safety systems. You will work with Engineering to meet 24/7/365 operational needs and ensure energy efficiency across the site.

You will supervise teams, manage budgets, and drive safety compliance while coordinating with Sales, Development, and Solutions Engineers to support customer environments and service

Qualifications

• Five or more years workplace or professional equivalent experience.
• Five or more years people leadership experience.
• Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, Architecture, Military Schooling, or professional equivalent experience.
• Ten or more years data center environment or professional equivalent experience.
• Five or more years people leadership experience in a data center environment.
• Master's degree in business, Engineering, Architecture, Military Schooling, or professional equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, establish, and implement facility policies and procedures with senior management.
• Develop and maintain efficient maintenance operations ensuring 100% up-time of mechanical, electrical, life safety, and control systems.
• Develop emergency response planning and reporting for mechanical, electrical, control, and plumbing systems.
• Direct short and long-term business plans for cost control, safety, and environmental stewardship.
• Oversee building/site cleanliness and preservation operations.
• Manage operating and capital budgets and expenditure compliance.
• Coordinate with departments to deploy and maintain customer environments.
• Conduct tours and audits for sales and customers.
• Ensure proactive delivery of services including power, staffing, and business continuity.

Skills

Customer service

System analysis

Team leadership

Written & verbal communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/Engineering/Architecture/Military Training

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

DCIM

Job description

The Senior Data Center Operations Manager is responsible for the Data Center facility technical strategy, continuous improvement, and development support. This role will support the electrical, mechanical, FLS (Fire, Life, Safety), and DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure management) platforms, and building and housekeeping items from a site operations standpoint.

This role will collaborate with the Engineering Manager on technical operations and daily facility needs. This role will own the strategic projects and continuous improvement site items. This leader should have experience with mechanical and electrical data center infrastructure, codes, regulations, required and applied safety standards and practices, as well as data center remote hands and customer support. This role will oversee the teams who perform preventative and corrective maintenance on critical mechanical and electrical equipment. This role will suggest, plan, and implement measures that increase the energy efficiency of the facility.

This role requires on-site work hours to support a 24X7X365 data center environment and is not eligible for remote and/or hybrid work.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities - Other duties may be assigned:

• Maintain, establish, and implement facility policies, procedures and organizational structure within the boundaries established by senior management team and corporate policy while ensuring no contradiction in federal, state, and local operating regulations or laws.

• Develop and maintain efficient maintenance matrixed operations utilizing maintenance governance, standards utilizing in-house staffing and vendor support to provide 100% up-time of all mechanical, electrical, life safety, monitoring, and control systems. This includes, but is not limited to, developing, and coordinating maintenance agreements, maintenance procedures, testing procedures, inspections, reporting, and accounting practices.

• Development of emergency response planning, response management and reporting of incident and emergency situations for all mechanical, electrical, associated controls and plumbing systems.

• Develop, direct, and monitor short-term and long-range business plans consistent with overall profit and growth objectives of the company that establishes operations standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, safety, and an environmentally friendly community partner.

• Manage and oversee the execution of building and site cleanliness and preservation operations.

• Development and management of an effective operating and capital budget.

• Oversee operations budget to ensure compliance with organizational expenditure requirements. Partner with Development, Sales, Implementation, and Solutions Engineers to deploy and maintain customer environments.

• Conduct Sales and Customer tours and audits.

• Ensure the pro-active delivery of corporate services support, power services, COT (Critical Operations Technicians) headcount projections, planning, budgeting, capital projects, maintenance, and business continuity/disaster recovery.

• Help negotiate improvement project contracts as needed on leased and owned real estate.

• Confer with professional operations staff subject matter experts (SME's) to find resolution to operational problems, develop and authorize operational procedures and approve all major estimates.

• Utilize comparative evaluations between mechanical, electrical, and controls systems performance and key performance indicators to monitor the effectiveness of operational programs through benchmarking and the utilization of best practices.

• Ensure facilities' mechanical, electrical, controls, monitoring, and fire-life safety systems compliance with all governmental regulatory operating guidelines.

• Obtain and keep current all necessary licenses, permits and certifications as required.

• Supervise, train, develop and coach employees.

• Works with direct reports to establish performance goals, monitors progress, and advises on ways to enhance their professional development and success.

• Facilitate Data Center space and cable plant design, implementation, and maintenance.

• Ensure teams performing equipment installs, managing tickets, communicating, completing tasks pertaining to computer hardware and/or software, and all incidents are resolved in a timely manner.

Basic Qualifications:

• Five or more years workplace or professional equivalent experience.

• Five or more years people leadership experience.

• Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, Architecture, Military Schooling, or professional equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ten or more years data center environment or professional equivalent experience.

• Five or more years people leadership experience in a data center environment.

• Master's degree in business, Engineering, Architecture, Military Schooling, or professional equivalent experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Exceptional customer service

• Ability to analyze the operation of various systems, determine the cause of any problems or malfunctions and take corrective action as required.

• Ability to manage complex situations during off management hours - single point of contact.

• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills

• Ability to effectively lead a team environment.

• The ability to acquire and apply job-related knowledge within set guidelines and expectations.

Total Rewards:

• 25 days annual leave

• 5,250 EUR training bursary

• Company car scheme - eligibility required

• Pension scheme with Allianz

• Occupational disability allowance

• Voluntary health insurance

• Voluntary pet insurance

• This position in bonus and equity eligible

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by QTS in its sole discretion. We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us to request an accommodation on [e-mail]