Site Operations Lead (English, French)

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience managing technical teams in charge of operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical, mechanical, and controls infrastructure and components.
• 5 years of experience in developing and managing managers.
• Experience with people management and leading teams.
• Ability to communicate in English and French fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Experience with electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Experience in managing mission critical facilities portfolio.
• Understanding of power and HVAC requirements for high-availability data centers.

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 AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

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

Belgium: €192000 - €196000 (EUR) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Own campus operational budgets, driving expense forecasting, cost-effective operations, and total cost of ownership minimization.
• Set regional deployment strategies across multiple sites, seamlessly integrating Google-wide execution with internal and external partners.
• Direct global data center compliance activities, ensuring regional teams strictly adhere to schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
• Oversee systems monitoring, controls site activities to minimize risk, and ensures rapid, effective responses to any operational excursions.
• Benchmark maintenance programs, drive environmental efficiency initiatives, and leverage domain expertise to optimize future data center designs.