Critical Facility Lead - AI Data Center

Intelletec Energy; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Six-figure equity grant

Job summary

Intelletec Energy seeks a senior Data Center Critical Facility Lead to own power, cooling, and critical infrastructure onsite, including liquid cooling. You will manage outages, coordinate incident response with engineering SMEs, and oversee colo partners and maintenance quality to drive reliability.

Responsibilities include commissioning support across L1–L5 and leading reliability initiatives, with a focus on redundancy models and capacity planning to meet top AI labs and enterprise needs.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with generators, UPS, chillers, cooling systems, electrical distribution.
• Strong understanding of redundancy models (2N, N+1, N+2, concurrent maintainability).
• Power/cooling capacity planning (TIA-942, ASHRAE).

Responsibilities

• Senior-most onsite owner of power, cooling, and critical infrastructure (including liquid cooling).
• Escalation point for facility-related incidents (power, cooling, building systems).
• Incident response coordination with engineering SMEs.
• Oversight of colo partners and maintenance quality.
• Commissioning support (L1-L5) and ongoing reliability initiatives.

Skills

Generators

UPS

Chillers

Cooling systems

Electrical distribution

Redundancy models

Capacity planning

Job description

Our client is a fast-growing hyperscale Data Center Operator building infrastructure to support top AI labs and enterprises.

DataCenter Critical Facility Lead

What this role does:

Senior-most onsite owner of power, cooling, and critical infrastructure (including liquid cooling). This person owns escalations, risk, and uptime across the facility

What they’ll own:

• Escalation point for all facility-related incidents (power, cooling, building systems)
• Incident response coordination with engineering SMEs
• Oversight of colo partners and maintenance quality
• Commissioning support (L1-L5) and ongoing reliability initiatives

Must-have background:

• Deep experience with generators, UPS, chillers, cooling systems, electrical distribution
• Strong understanding of redundancy models (2N, N+1, N+2, concurrent maintainability)
• Power/cooling capacity planning (TIA-942, ASHRAE)

Nice to have:

• Electrical/Mechanical certifications
• Experience working directly with colos and vendors
• Experience with data hall build-outs + commissioning influcence

Salary & Benefits

• $150-200k base salary + six figure equity grant