Associate Facilities Manager, Data Center Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• 4 years of experience in data center operations or other relevant operational experience in non-DC industries (e.g., power generation, HVAC and refrigeration, industrial manufacturing, military, oil and gas, maritime/marine, chemical cluster, etc.).
• Experience in developing and growing team members, through coaching, mentoring, and training.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with initiating and executing strategic initiatives in a global environment.
• Ability to set, prioritize, and achieve business objectives.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Passion for operations and people management.

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.

In this role, you will lead a team responsible to maintain, and operate sophisticated electrical, mechanical and HVAC systems in a 24x7 critical facilities environment. You will provide daily assistance across technical teams, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.

Together with your team you will develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency and ensuring that EHS standards are consistently met. You will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures. You will be responsible for generating ideas, delivering recommendations to senior-level executives and driving implementation.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to integrate the Google-wide strategy and execution with internal and external business partners, ensuring teams have aligned goals.
• Plan and execute operational budgets, expense forecasting and manage established budgets with focus on cost effective operations.
• Empower the team and make hiring and talent decisions by supporting career development and setting Googlers for success.
• Be responsible for meeting service level agreements (SLAs) with internal teams on uptime, efficiencies and cost.
• Demonstrate the ability to implement and drive the safety culture at the site.