Data Center Operations Facilities Manager
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Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in operations, data center, or facility operations experience.
- 2 years of experience in critical facilities management, including facility, technical, and team management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in a related Engineering field.
- Experience 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.
- Ability to set, prioritize, and achieve business objectives.
About the job
At Google, we aim to foster Googley work environments that are collaborative, friendly and fun. The Facilities Management team brings our spaces to life as you oversee the daily operations of our offices. While roles with similar names at other companies can be far more mundane, you're a creative, organized customer service specialist, who takes pride in seeing things run smoothly and efficiently. You go out of your way to make sure that clients are not only satisfied, but singing Google's praises. You're comfortable in a fast-paced environment with the highest standards of excellence. You aren't afraid to have fun with your job, and bring an enthusiasm, dedication and a collaborative spirit to build and maintain office spaces that facilitate some of the world's most cutting edge innovation.
As a Data Center Facilities Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team in 24/7 Data Center operations. You will be responsible for working towards Service-level agreements (SLAs) with internal teams on uptime, efficiencies and cost. You will grow the campus team to meet the needs of the business, and leverage technical talent across the campus and identify key hiring needs for regional data centers.
In this role, 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 in emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.
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
- Plan and execute campus operational budgets, expense forecasting and manage established budgets.
- Be responsible for meeting service level agreements (SLAs) with internal teams on uptime, efficiencies and cost.
- Lead efforts to integrate Google-wide strategy and execution with internal and external business partners.
- Empower your team through hiring, talent development, and career support. Integrate Google-wide strategy with internal and external partners, ensuring aligned goals.
- Implement and drive the safety culture at the site. Lead by example, deliver results, develop people, and build community.
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