Manager, Critical Operations

Quality Technology Services; Fayetteville (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

QTS is seeking an experienced Manager, Critical Operations to lead data center facility operations, drive continuous improvement, and coordinate with Engineering for daily needs. The role covers electrical, mechanical, fire life safety and DCIM platforms, focusing on energy efficiency and 24/7/365 operations on-site.

The ideal candidate has extensive data center experience, strong leadership skills, and a track record of maintaining up-time and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Five or more years workplace or professional equivalent experience.
• Five or more years people leadership experience.
• Seven or more years data center environment or professional equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain facility policies and organizational structure per senior management and corporate policy.
• Develop and maintain efficient maintenance operations to ensure 100% up-time of mechanical, electrical, life safety, monitoring and control systems.
• Plan and manage emergency response, incident reporting and recovery for mechanical/electrical and plumbing systems.
• Develop and manage operating and capital budgets aligned with company objectives.
• Oversee building cleanliness, housekeeping and site preservation operations.
• Coordinate with Development, Sales and Solutions Engineers to deploy and maintain customer environments.
• Conduct tours and audits for customers and ensure pro-active delivery of services and headcount planning.

Skills

People leadership

Data center operations

Job description

Who we are:

As a global leader in digital infrastructure, QTS designs, builds and operates advanced data centers that support strategic AI, cloud and digital transformation initiatives. We are driven by a mission to connect the world for good and our people make it possible. Every single day, the creativity, dedication and genuine care for our communities are what push us forward and make this a truly special place to be.

The Manager, Critical Operations is responsible for the Data Center facility technical strategy, continuous improvement, and development support. This role will support the electrical, mechanical, FLS (Fire, Life, Safety), and DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure management) platforms, and building and housekeeping items from a site operations standpoint. This role will collaborate with the Engineering Manager on technical operations and daily facility needs. This role will own the strategic projects and continuous improvement site items. This leader should have experience with mechanical and electrical data center infrastructure, codes, regulations, required and applied safety standards and practices, as well as data center remote hands and customer support. This role will oversee the teams who perform preventative and corrective maintenance on critical mechanical and electrical equipment. This role will suggest, plan, and implement measures that increase the energy efficiency of the facility.

This role requires on-site work hours to support a 24X7X365 data center environment and is not eligible for remote and/or hybrid work.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Other duties may be assigned.

Maintain, establish, and implement facility policies, procedures and organizational structure within the boundaries established by senior management team and corporate policy while ensuring no contradiction in federal, state, and local operating regulations or laws.

Develop and maintain efficient maintenance matrixed operations utilizing maintenance governance, standards utilizing in-house staffing and vendor support to provide 100% up-time of all mechanical, electrical, life safety, monitoring, and control systems. This includes, but is not limited to, developing, and coordinating maintenance agreements, maintenance procedures, testing procedures, inspections, reporting, and accounting practices.

Development of emergency response planning, response management and reporting of incident and emergency situations for all mechanical, electrical, associated controls and plumbing systems. Development of emergency response planning, response management and reporting of incident and emergency situations for all mechanical, electrical, associated controls and plumbing systems.

Develop, direct, and monitor short-term and long-range business plans consistent with overall profit and growth objectives of the company that establishes operations standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, safety, and an environmentally friendly community partner.

Manage and oversee the execution of building and site cleanliness and preservation operations.

Development and management of an effective operating and capital budget.

Oversee operations budget to ensure compliance with organizational expenditure requirements.

Partner with Development, Sales, Implementation, and Solutions Engineers to deploy and maintain customer environments.

Conduct Sales and Customer tours and audits.

Ensure the pro-active delivery of corporate services support, power services, COT (Critical Operations Technicians) headcount projections, planning, budgeting, capital projects, maintenance, and business continuity/disaster recovery.

Help negotiate improvement project contracts as needed on leased and owned real estate.

Confer with professional operations staff subject matter experts (SME's) to find resolution to operational problems, develop and authorize operational procedures and approve all major estimates.

Utilize comparative evaluations between mechanical, electrical, and controls systems performance and key performance indicators to monitor the effectiveness of operational programs through benchmarking and the utilization of best practices.

Ensure facilities' mechanical, electrical, controls, monitoring, and fire-life safety systems compliance with all governmental regulatory operating guidelines.

Obtain and keep current all necessary licenses, permits and certifications as required.

Supervise, train, develop and coach employees.

Works with direct reports to establish performance goals, monitors progress, and advises on ways to enhance their professional development and success.

Facilitate Data Center space and cable plant design, implementation, and maintenance.

Ensure teams performing equipment installs, managing tickets, communicating, completing tasks pertaining to computer hardware and/or software, and all incidents are resolved in a timely manner.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Five or more years workplace or professional equivalent experience.

Five or more years people leadership experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Seven or more years data center environment or professional equivalent experience.

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