Site Lead Data Center Operations Facilities Manager

Google; Lima (OH); On-site; USD 164,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a seasoned Data Center Manager to lead and optimize critical facilities operations. You will oversee electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems, mentor managers, and drive efficiency while maintaining safety standards across global data centers.

The role demands a decade of leadership within technical teams, strong collaboration with cross-functional units, and a track record of reducing costs without compromising reliability.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own compliance activities for a data center and analyze results for global data centers.
• Lead monitoring of data center systems operations and control site activities to minimize risk and ensure effective responses to excursions.
• Oversee adherence to facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally and drive improvements to policies and programs.
• Develop strategies to minimize operational costs, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, and drive site-level programs.
• Enhance data center design to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.

Skills

Team management

Mentoring managers

Data center operations

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

This role is not eligible for U.S. immigration sponsorship.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 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

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and HVAC systems in the world. Facility Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some duties will include heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control and monitoring systems. You regularly help inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components). You'll provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.

You will develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $164000 - $237000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Own efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
• Lead efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to 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.
• Own the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with driving site-level development of programs and initiatives.
• Enhance data center design to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.

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