Technical Operations Manager, Facilities/Maintenance

Technical Operations Manager, Facilities/Maintenance

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
  
• Trade school qualification or certification in a related field
  
• Candidates will typically have 4 years of experience in a HVAC, electrical, controls, water chemistry, generators, mechanical, or other similar technical domain
  
• Experience in Critical Facility Operation Management
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in data center environments, including building and operating infrastructure
  
• Experience with initiating and executing initiatives in a global environment
  
• Ability to perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party sites
  
• Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way
  
• Excellent problem-solving skills
  

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.

As a Data Center Technical Operations Manager, you will partner with the Google data center engineering team, hardware operations, network infrastructure, and third-party data center extended workforce. In this role, you will be the advocate of the operations organization, and will be responsible to ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability are critical criteria for Google assets

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

• Support the site selection process.
• Perform operational assessment and risk analysis of third-party co-location sites.
• Own co-location sites facility operation within an area/region, with full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
• Keep main stakeholders informed about current work and discuss strategic decisions and directions with them.
• Contribute to focus area strategy and setting strategy for smaller local groups.

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