Facility Operations Manager, Data Center Operations

2 Months ago • All levels • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Facility Operations Manager, Data Center Operations in Skien, Norway, is responsible for planning and executing campus operational budgets, leading deployments across multiple sites, and integrating Google-wide strategies with internal/external partners. This role requires creating cost-effective operational strategies, demonstrating critical thinking to solve data center problems, and ensuring environmental and safety standards are met. Responsibilities include managing data center performance issues and outages, providing daily assistance to senior technicians, inspecting and maintaining various data center systems, and developing creative approaches to improve efficiency. The ideal candidate will have experience managing critical facilities, understanding data center electrical systems, and possess excellent people management and leadership skills.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer experience in critical facilities
  • Experience managing mission-critical facilities portfolio
  • Critical facilities management expertise (facility, technical, team)
  • Budget planning and execution
  • Strategic planning and deployment across multiple sites
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Engineering
  • Collaboration with other business units
  • Understanding of data center electrical systems
  • Excellent people management and leadership skills

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience as a Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer within a critical facility.
  • Experience managing a mission critical facilities portfolio.
  • Experience in critical facilities management including facility, technical, and team management.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Engineering or a related field.
  • Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
  • Understanding of the operations and maintenance of electrical systems in a data center environment.
  • Excellent people management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.

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.

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.
  • 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 problems.

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