Data Center Operations and Maintenance Manager
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Minimum Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
* Experience in critical facilities management including facility, technical, and team management.
* Experience managing a mission critical facilities portfolio.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Master's degree in an Engineering field.
* Experience as a Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer at a data center or a related environment (industrial, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or military).
* Understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
* Effective people management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
* Ability to communicate in French and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
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 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.
In this role, you will lead a team responsible for maintaining and operating sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems in a critical facilities environment. You will provide daily assistance across technical teams, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order. You will develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency and ensuring that Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) standards are consistently met. You will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures. In addition, you will be responsible for generating ideas, delivering recommendations to C-level executives, and driving implementation.
Responsibilities
* Plan and execute campus operational budgets, expense forecasting, and manage established budgets.
* Set strategy and plan deployments across multiple sites.
* Lead efforts to integrate Google-wide strategy and execution with internal and external business partners.
* Create strategy for cost-effective operations, focused on total cost of ownership.
* Demonstrate critical thinking and innovation in approaching traditional data center and emergent challenges.
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