Data Center Tooling & Readiness Lead

Ll Oefentherapie; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ll Oefentherapie is seeking a Tooling Manager for Data Center Site Deployment who will oversee tooling, equipment, inventory, and readiness processes that support deployment activities across new sites, expansions, retrofits, and customer-driven programs.

This individual contributor role ensures deployment teams have the right tools, kits, materials, records, and controls to execute safely and consistently.

Responsibilities

• Manage tooling readiness for site deployment programs, including tool kits and calibration needs.
• Maintain accurate tooling inventories, records, readiness trackers, and deployment documentation.
• Coordinate with deployment managers, logistics, site ops, vendors, and procurement.
• Develop standard tooling lists, site deployment kits, replenishment triggers, and controls.
• Support tool issue resolution when equipment could impact deployment schedules.
• Align tooling records, ownership, barcoding, transfer, storage, and lifecycle processes.
• Track tool movement across sites, vendors, and deployment teams to reduce loss.
• Support receiving, inspection, labeling, storage, checkout, return, and disposal.
• Identify tooling gaps, recurring failures, standardization opportunities, and risks.
• Prepare status updates, issue logs, action registers, and readiness summaries.
• Ensure tooling processes support safety, access control, and audit readiness.
• Contribute to deployment playbooks, lessons learned, templates, and improvements.

Job description

Ll Oefentherapie is seeking a Tooling Manager for Data Center Site Deployment who will oversee tooling, equipment, inventory, and readiness processes that support deployment activities across new sites, expansions, retrofits, and customer-driven programs.

This individual contributor role ensures deployment teams have the right tools, kits, materials, records, and controls to execute safely and consistently.