24/7 Data Center Facilities Ops Lead

Oracle; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle's Saline, Michigan site seeks an experienced mechanical operations leader to oversee day-to-day plant systems—chillers, cooling towers, pumps, CRAHs, AHUs, CDUs—and ensure uptime while adhering to Oracle standards. You will manage technicians, vendors, and service providers, drive incident response, and collaborate with engineering and reliability teams.

This on-site role emphasizes maintenance backlog management, preventive/corrective work, and performance metrics to sustain critical

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in mechanical plant operations, HVAC service, critical cooling maintenance, or related uptime-critical environments such as data centers, healthcare, industrial plants, semiconductor, or large commercial facilities.
• 2–4+ years of experience leading technicians, maintenance teams, or service providers in a live operational environment.
• Strong knowledge of chilled water systems, cooling towers, pumps, CRAHs, AHUs, CDUs, and related controls platforms.
• Experience managing vendors, maintenance programs, incident response, and service execution in 24x7 operations.
• Familiarity with BMS, SCADA, DCIM, and CMMS tools.
• Experience supporting commissioning, turnover, or operational acceptance of new or upgraded mechanical systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily operations, maintenance, and service execution for critical mechanical and HVAC infrastructure.
• Own mechanical plant readiness, including preventive maintenance, corrective work, inspections, restoration activities, and maintenance backlog management.
• Serve as the primary site point of contact and technical lead for mechanical systems, including incident escalation and operational decision support.
• Manage Facilities Technicians, contractors, and service vendors, ensuring strong safety performance, quality of work, documentation rigor, and SLA adherence.
• Drive troubleshooting and response for mechanical failures, abnormal conditions, and performance degradation impacting uptime or operational stability.
• Track and improve KPIs such as equipment availability, backlog health, MTTR, repeat failures, maintenance completion, and corrective action closure.
• Partner with engineering, commissioning, deployment, reliability, and controls teams on retrofits, upgrades, system turnover, and operational acceptance.
• Lead or support root cause analysis for major or recurring issues and ensure corrective actions are fully implemented, verified, and sustained.
• Maintain audit-ready records including procedures, service reports, maintenance history, turnover documentation, and CMMS data.
• Champion safe work practices, environmental compliance, and disciplined process execution across all mechanical operations.
• Coach and develop technicians and frontline leads to strengthen troubleshooting capability, technical depth, and execution consistency.
• Support the Site Operations Director with status reporting, risk visibility, staffing readiness, and operational improvement initiatives for the mechanical plant.

Skills

Mechanical operations

HVAC service

Critical cooling

Data centers

Uptime-focused

Tools

BMS

SCADA

DCIM

CMMS

Job description

Oracle's Saline, Michigan site seeks an experienced mechanical operations leader to oversee day-to-day plant systems—chillers, cooling towers, pumps, CRAHs, AHUs, CDUs—and ensure uptime while adhering to Oracle standards. You will manage technicians, vendors, and service providers, drive incident response, and collaborate with engineering and reliability teams.

This on-site role emphasizes maintenance backlog management, preventive/corrective work, and performance metrics to sustain critical