Data Center Facility Operations Lead — 24/7 Ops & Safety

LFGroup.ai; Moses Lake (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term incentives (stock)

3 weeks paid vacation

10+ paid holidays

Health, vision, and dental coverage

Job summary

LFG designs, builds and manages power infrastructure for compute systems. The Facility Operations Lead in Moses Lake will oversee the around-the-clock operation of our local data center, ensuring customers’ equipment stays powered and cooled without interruption.

You will lead the site team, own the maintenance program, and bring new buildings into operation as construction finishes, while coordinating safety, budgets, and vendor relationships.

Qualifications

• 7+ years operating data centers or other critical facilities, including at least 2 years leading a team.
• Working knowledge of UPS systems, generators, switchgear, chillers and building management systems.
• Experience writing and following formal operating procedures for live systems.
• Strong safety record and knowledge of electrical safety practices.
• Experience managing maintenance vendors and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain the site's electrical, mechanical, fire protection and security systems.
• Lead the site's technicians and contractors, and manage the shift schedule and on-call rotation.
• Run the preventive and corrective maintenance program in the maintenance system.
• Write and enforce operating procedures, and approve planned changes to live systems.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis.
• Track capacity, energy efficiency and uptime, and report on them.
• Enforce site safety rules, including Washington State safety requirements, lockout/tagout and arc flash precautions.
• Take handover of new buildings from the Construction Lead and take part in commissioning.
• Manage customer access, service vendors and the site operating budget.
• Hire and train site staff from the local area.

Skills

Data center ops

Team leadership

UPS / gens / BMS

Procedures for live systems

Electrical safety

Vendor & budget mgmt

Job description

LFG designs, builds and manages power infrastructure for compute systems. The Facility Operations Lead in Moses Lake will oversee the around-the-clock operation of our local data center, ensuring customers’ equipment stays powered and cooled without interruption.

You will lead the site team, own the maintenance program, and bring new buildings into operation as construction finishes, while coordinating safety, budgets, and vendor relationships.