Site Manager, Data Center Facility Operations

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Site Manager for Data Center Facility Operations at Google in Skien, Norway, leads a team in managing and improving data center infrastructure. Responsibilities include setting team priorities, performance management, ensuring compliance, monitoring systems, responding to emergencies, developing cost-saving and environmentally friendly strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in operations or maintenance management, including 4+ years in data center management and proven leadership skills. Technical expertise in electrical and mechanical systems within data centers is highly preferred. The role involves optimizing data center operations, implementing improvements, and ensuring the smooth and efficient running of Google's data center facilities.
Must have:
  • 10+ years Operations Management experience
  • 4+ years Data Center Management
  • Team Leadership and People Management
  • Data Center Systems Monitoring
  • Emergency Response and Risk Mitigation
  • Process Improvement and Efficiency Optimization
Good to have:
  • Experience with electrical and mechanical systems
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Understanding of power and HVAC requirements

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience as an Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager or Chief Engineer including leading technical teams.
  • 4 years of experience in site-level data center or mission critical installation management.
  • Experience with people management and leading teams.
  • Experience in managing mission critical facilities portfolio.

Preferred qualifications:

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

About the job

Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.

Through your leadership, you use your technical expertise to lead cross-functional teams to develop infrastructure improvements. You manage a team of engineers and assign Googlers to projects based on their capabilities and the project's demands.

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 a team of individuals, set and communicate individual and team priorities that support organizational goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development, and provide feedback and coaching.
  • Ensure team members are following work processes and complying with guidelines and all sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs, while making recommendations for data center improvements.
  • Monitor data center systems operation, control site activities to minimize risk, and respond effectively to any excursions or emergency procedures.
  • Develop strategies to improve efficiency, minimize cost, and reduce environmental impact, validate and improve processes and procedures for equipment operations, perform and analyze compliance checks for data centers globally.
  • Collaborate with partner teams and project leads to set and implement short- and long-tearm strategies.

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