Vice President, Facilities Operations - Europe

QTS Realty Trust; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

32 paid volunteering hours per year

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Employer paid private medical and dent

Life assurance

Illness financial protection including

Bonus and equity eligible

Job summary

QTS Realty Trust is seeking a Vice President, Facilities Operations to provide strategic leadership and tactical execution across the company’s facilities, including datacenters, infrastructure, and business continuity planning. The role requires directing multi-million dollar budgets, leading cross-functional teams, and partnering with senior leadership to align facilities with growth objectives.

The ideal candidate will have extensive facilities and data center management experience, strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Business, Engineering, Architecture, or related area.
• 10+ years’ experience in facilities management, Data Center management, corporate/military engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years’ people management experience, with virtual management preferred.
• P&L responsibility, budgeting and financial model development.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and implement facilities policies, procedures, and organizational structure in line with senior management and policy.
• Develop and monitor short- and long-range business plans to meet profit and growth objectives.
• Oversee Data Center operating budgets and ensure compliance with expenditure requirements.
• Provide leadership to Data Center Directors and other leaders to achieve operational standards.
• Support negotiation of improvement project contracts for owned or leased real estate.
• Ensure compliance with governmental regulations and maintain licenses and certifications.
• Drive green initiatives and sustainability within facilities programs.
• Participate in acquisition teams to assess potential facilities as needed.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Data Center operations

Regulatory compliance

Strategic planning

Team management (virtual)

Stakeholder management

Operational excellence

Education

Bachelor degree in Business, Engineering, Architecture, related area

Tools

MS Office

Project management software

Job description

The Vice President, Facilities Operations is charged with providing the leadership, strategic vision, tactical execution and business acumen to support the diverse facilities needs throughout QTS. This person is responsible to coordinate, synthesize, and integrate all aspects of corporate real estate management, financial analysis, master planning and new construction together with direct facilities management of existing facilities including infrastructure maintenance, datacenter operations, and business continuity/disaster recovery procedures for all assigned owned and leased properties.This person will also be responsible for managing multi-million annual capital and expense budgets. The successful candidate will have good judgment, strategic agility, and good decision-making skills. They should also possess the ability to build and lead teams and to work well in a collaborative, team oriented environment. They should have proven leadership, management, interpersonal, negotiation, organizational, analytic, and communication skills. Keen planning skills along with the ability to lead through influence and be a proactive partner with strong customer service orientation who builds relationships by building trust. This person should also be able to solve problems at a strategic and functional level, have excellent oral and written communication skills and a solid work ethic and unquestioned integrity.Responsibilities includes the following - other duties may be assigned:Maintain, establish and implement facilities 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 lawsDevelop, 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 partnerSupervise the preparation of and implementation of effective operating budgets for each Data Center in their assigned regionOversee operations budget to ensure compliance with organizational expenditure requirementsThrough a staff of Data Center Directors and other leaders, ensure the pro-active delivery of corporate services support space planning, Power and Cooling services, headcount projections, planning, budgeting, capital projects, maintenance, janitorial services, landscaping, business continuity/disaster recovery for facilitiesProvide Matrixed leadership in conjunction with Regional Leaders and other line of business owners to ensure operational standards are achievedHelp negotiate improvement project contracts as needed on leased and owned real estateConfer with professional staff to find resolution to operational problems, authorize operational procedures and approve all major estimatesMaintain positive relationships and communication with staff and executive level managementUtilize comparative evaluations between facilities and key performance indicators to monitor the effectiveness of operational programs at each Data CenterEnsure facilities’ compliance with all governmental operating guidelines.Obtain and keep current all necessary licenses, permits and certifications as requiredParticipate in community activities and organizations as appropriate through the maintenance of professional association affiliations and participation within association programsDrive innovation into facilities programs/systems with an environmentally conscious attitude of "go green"Participate on acquisition teams to assess potential facility as neededBasic Qualifications:Bachelor degree in Business, Engineering, Architecture, related area or equivalent professional experienceTen or more years’ experience in facilities management, Data Center management, corporate/military engineering, or other related fieldThree or more years’ people management experience, with experience in managing team "virtually" preferredStrong knowledge of related regulations and laws and general knowledge of electrical systems, mechanical systems, maintenance, environmental codes & safety codesWorking knowledge of construction practices, building codes, and project managementExperience having P&L responsibility, budgeting and financial model developmentPreferred Qualifications:Masters Degree (MBA, MPA, or Masters in Engineering or Construction Management or related field) or 15+ years related work experience and/or trainingTotal Rewards:25 days annual leave and public holidays32 paid volunteering hours per yearSalary sacrifice pension schemeEmployer paid private medical and dental cover for employees and dependantsLife assuranceIllness financial protection including critical illness cover and income protectionThis role is bonus and equity eligibleThe duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by QTS in its sole discretion. We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us to request an accommodation on [e-mail]