Facilities Manager, Data Center Operations, Global Data Centers

Google; Midlothian (TX); On-site; USD 205,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a senior Facilities Manager to oversee daily data center operations through the Facilities Management team, ensuring high standards and efficient site performance. You will lead and mentor technical managers, implement global compliance practices, and drive cost-saving initiatives across multiple sites.

The role emphasizes collaboration with other business units to meet goals and maintain cutting-edge data center infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience managing technical teams in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.
• Experience in mentoring or developing managers.

Responsibilities

• Execute compliance activities for data centers and analyze results globally, ensuring regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
• Monitor data center systems operations and control site activities to minimize risk and ensure effective response to any excursions.
• Lead efforts to ensure all sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
• Develop strategies to minimize operational costs, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with driving site-level development of programs and initiatives.
• Incorporate subdomain expertise and experience to enhance data center design to optimize equipment and operations for next-generation data centers.

Skills

Team management

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience managing technical teams in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.
• Experience in mentoring or developing managers.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in mission-critical systems operations (e.g., power generation, data center, refinery, chip fabrication, chemical processing, or other high consequence environments).
• Experience in collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Understanding of the operations and maintenance of electrical, control systems, and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Ability to develop and grow team members through coaching, mentoring, and training.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills.

About the job

At Google, we aim to foster Googley work environments that are collaborative, friendly and fun. The Facilities Management team brings our spaces to life as you oversee the daily operations of our offices. While roles with similar names at other companies can be far more mundane, you're a creative, organized customer service specialist, who takes pride in seeing things run smoothly and efficiently. You go out of your way to make sure that clients are not only satisfied, but singing Google's praises. You're comfortable in a fast-paced environment with the highest standards of excellence. You aren't afraid to have fun with your job, and bring an enthusiasm, dedication and a collaborative spirit to build and maintain office spaces that facilitate some of the world's most cutting edge innovation. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $205000 - $285000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Execute compliance activities for data centers and analyze results globally, ensuring regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
• Monitor data center systems operations and control site activities to minimize risk and ensure effective response to any excursions.
• Lead efforts to ensure all sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
• Develop strategies to minimize operational costs, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with driving site-level development of programs and initiatives.
• Incorporate subdomain expertise and experience to enhance data center design to optimize equipment and operations for next-generation data centers.

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