Facility Assistant

Digital Realty; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Realty is seeking a Facility Assistant to join our Data Center Operations Team. The role provides leadership for day-to-day operations of a large-scale electrical/mechanical data center plant, ensuring reliability and availability.

The candidate will support security, shipping, PMs, and maintenance tasks across the facility. Ideal candidates have 2 years of facility management experience in high-reliability environments and strong Microsoft Office skills, with basic carpentry and

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in data center or similar environments
• Strong written and verbal communication in English
• Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills

Responsibilities

• Assist as security monitor during business hours and emergencies
• Assist with shipping/receiving and loading dock activities
• Perform daily property tours and document findings
• Support facility quotes, bids, and price quotations
• Assist with repairs and preventive maintenance of facility equipment and grounds
• Support custodial services and general cleaning of the facility
• Escort vendors to appropriate contacts and maintain secure spaces
• Keep work areas neat, safe, and organized
• Organize and file facility documents

Skills

Leadership

Communication

English proficiency

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Excel

Word

Job description

Your role

The Facility Assistant (or Commercial Maintenance Personnel) is a part of the Data Center Operations Team. The Facility Assistant shall provide leadership and management for day-to-day operations of a large scale Data Center electrical/mechanical plant, while ensuring the highest levels of reliability and availability are maintained.

Job Description

Position Title

Facility Assistant

Your role

The Facility Assistant (or Commercial Maintenance Personnel) is a part of the Data Center Operations Team. The Facility Assistant shall provide leadership and management for day-to-day operations of a large scale Data Center electrical/mechanical plant, while ensuring the highest levels of reliability and availability are maintained.

What You’ll Do

• Assist as a security monitor (includes looking for security violations and at times escorting contractors to secured areas) during normal business hours and on call for emergencies
• Assist with shipping/receiving and general loading dock activities and operations
• Perform daily property tours
• Assist Managers with obtaining facility related price quotations and bid proposals on property quotes
• Assist with performing and scheduling repairs and preventative maintenance of general facility equipment and grounds, related to landscaping, irrigations systems, elevators and lifts, dock levelers, pest control , trash removal , painting, crating and uncrating equipment, security equipment IE cameras, readers and gates.
• Assist with cleaning and general custodial services of the facility
• Escorting vendor to the appropriate departmental contact but excluding all areas for MEP, roof and critical space in the data center.
• Maintain work areas in a neat and safe manner, non-critical space.
• Organize and file property related facility documents

What You’ll Need

• 2 years of facility management experience in a high reliability data center or similar environment preferred
• Background in carpentry and general building hardware maintenance (doors, locks, windows, flooring, etc.) preferred
• Expertise in Microsoft Office suite applications, Outlook, Word and Excel
• Rudimentary problem solving skills, technical and organizational expertise
• Actively solicits feedback to ensure all activities and deliverables meet expectations
• Basic carpentry skills
• Painting experience
• General mechanical skills
• Extended hours may be significant at times
• Strong written and verbal command of the English language
• Responsible attitude with strong work ethic; leading by example in attendance, attitude and technical work product
• Ability and willingness to respond to emails after hours in the event of an emergency

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A Bit About Our Team

Operations

Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range: $36.00-$39.20 per hour . This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a hourly rate for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.