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Data Center Operations and Maintenance Manager

Google

Saint-Ghislain, Hainaut

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Permanent
SKILLS
Blueprints, Budget Management, Budgeting, C-Level Management, Communication Skills, Cost Control, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Support/Service, Data Management, Distribution Control, Drug Manufacturing, Electrical Engineering, Electricity, English Language, Environmental Health, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Expense Management, Facilities Management, Forecasting, French Language, HVAC, Identify Issues, Leadership, Maintenance - Electrical, Maintenance Services, Mechanical Engineering, Military, Network Operations Center, Operational Expenditure (OPEX), Operational Improvement, Operational Strategy, People Management, Piping, Safety Standards, Safety/Work Safety, Schematics, Strategic Planning, Systems Analysis, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Leadership, Technical Support, Total Cost of Ownership, Water Supply
LOCATION
Saint-Ghislain, Hainaut
POSTED
4 days ago

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in an Engineering field.
  • Experience as a Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer at a data center or a related environment (industrial, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or military).
  • Understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
  • Ability to communicate in French and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
  • Effective 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.

In this role, you will lead a team responsible to maintain and operate sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems in a critical facilities environment. You will provide daily assistance across technical teams, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order. You will develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency and ensuring that Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) standards are consistently met. You will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures. In addition, you will be responsible for generating ideas, delivering recommendations to C-level executives, and driving implementation.

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 challenges.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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About the Company

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Google

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So if you want to develop new technology and craft beautiful products, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Internet-Dienstleistungen/Portale/ Datenverarbeitung
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://careers.google.com/