Assistant Critical Operations Manager (Nights)

STACK Infrastructure APAC; Leesburg (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Paid Leave

Job summary

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE is seeking an Assistant Critical Operations Manager to support a local data center campus on the night shift. This role focuses on maintaining mechanical, electrical, fire life safety, base building, and other critical systems while ensuring reliability and safe operations.

The incumbent will assist in developing site-level CAPEX and OPEX budgets, manage project scopes, vendor contracts, and procurements, and mentor junior staff.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 2-3 years' experience in data center or critical operations role.
• Knowledge of data center facilities, enterprise and colocation industries.
• Experience with facility preventive maintenance programs and vendor management.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work in stressful situations.
• Willingness to work outside normal business hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Lead and implement a standardized safety culture across STACK data centers.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions within the facility.
• Assist in developing site CapEx and OpEx budgets and manage project scopes.
• Manage vendor relationships and service contracts, and assist with procurement and billing.
• Create and maintain highly detailed maintenance procedures for events and outages.
• Coach and mentor junior staff; ensure compliance with company standards and policies.

Skills

Night shift operations

Vendor management

Data center operations

Budgeting

Project management

Communication

Team mentoring

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

Job description

THE COMPANY:

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world's most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

THE POSITION:

STACK is looking for an Assistant Critical Operations Manager (ACOM) to support a local data center campus for night shift operations. As a leader in STACK's Critical Operations team, the ACOM must possess an expert level of knowledge and will be responsible for assisting the Critical Operations Manager in maintaining the mechanical, electrical, fire life safety, base building, and other various internal data center systems. The ACOM will also be focused on the implementation of programs related to Safety, Team, Availability, Communication, and Knowledge. The Assistant Critical Operations Manager will report to the Critical Operations Manager.

The ACOM will assist the Critical Operations Manager in developing and maintaining CAPEX and OPEX budgets at the site level. They will also be responsible for project execution and management including developing scopes, obtaining proposals, creating purchase requisitions, and ensuring invoices are routed properly.

The Night ACOM position will support Critical Operations across data center buildings on a single campus, ensuring maintainability and reliability across the critical infrastructure.

• Lead and implement a standardized culture of always working safely across all STACK data centers.
• Datacenter subject matter expert for electrical, mechanical, fire life safety, and other data center systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions within the facility.
• Implementing site-level efficiency projects and maintaining overall site design PUE.
• Ensure STACK preventative and predictive maintenance program is executed.
• Training and mentoring of junior staff.
• Manage vendor relationships and service contracts.
• Assist in managing vendor procurement and billing process.
• Site budgeting and forecasting bothCapExandOpEx.
• Create highly detailed technical procedures for maintenance events, emergency situations, standard site evolutions, etc.
• Expert technical review of procedures
• Expert technical review of company standards and policies
• Manage site audits both internal and external
• Adherence to compliance standards
• Manage systems to avoid unplanned, customer-impacting outages
• Manage the data floor and back of house mechanical loading capacity thereby ensuring that the cooling system is operating at its highest efficiency
• Navigate and utilize CMS, EPMS, and BMS systems.
• Provide day-to-day exceptional customer service and support.
• On-call availability may be required to respond to emergency situations at the data center
• Take on other duties as required by STACK.

PLEASE NOTE:

• This role supports night shift operations
• Work hours may vary based upon business needs.
• Job duties, roles, and responsibilities are subject to change over time.

THEDETAILS:

• Benefits: Healthcare, Dental Care, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Paid Leave Programs
• Travel:None or less than 5%
• Must be eligible to work in the United States
• Must pass comprehensive background and drug screening

MUST-HAVEQUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma orequivalent
• 2 -3 years' experience in a data center or other related mission critical operations role.
• Knowledge of data center (hyper scale, enterprise, and colocation), and telecommunications industries.
• Experience working with various Microsoft office applications and other database housing software
• 1 -2 years' experience in administering and managing facility preventative maintenance programs.
• 1 -2 years' experience in vendor and project management
• Ability to handle a multitude of tasks and work well in stressful situations.
• Working understanding of the electrical and mechanical systems used in a data center environment. These include, but not limited to: UPS, Transformers, PDU's, RPP's, Chillers, CRAH, CRAC, STS, ATS, and Pre-action systems
• Working knowledge of NFPA70e, NFPA72, NFPA25, and compliance issues as well as building codes in regard to fire life safety.
• Working knowledge and experience in data center trending and analysis, with the ability to rapidly learn and use PC based site monitoring systems.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle, reach or feel objects, climb stairs, balance, stoop or kneel, talk, see at close range, and hear for extended periods of time
• Must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Must be willing to work outside normal business hours, including weekends, late nights, holidays, and on-call support.
• Must be comfortable working in a high stress, fast paced environment with shifting priorities

THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:

• You are a strong communicator, you are persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making.

• You do not get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.

• You are a team builder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.

• You are naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.

WHY STACK?

• We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts - even a cell phone subsidy.

• We foster a culture of appreciation, including peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.

• Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.

• We're growing - this is a great time to join and make an impact!

STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law