Facilities Operations Manager, Third-Party Data Center (English) in Frankfurt am Main bei Google

Google

A person with disabilities will be given preferential consideration per local regulations.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Experience in Critical Facility Operation Management
Ability to communicate in English fluently

Preferred qualifications:

Experience working in data center environments (e.g., building and operating infrastructure)
Experience with managing 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. Facilities Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some of these 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 provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.

As a master of exceptional practices, you 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 Facilities Operations Operations Manager, you will partner with the Google data center engineering team, hardware operations, network infrastructure, and third-party data center extended workforce with a focus on operability, maintainability, and reliability. 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.
Own sites facility operation within an area or region, with full accountability for this area tactically and strategically.
Keep stakeholders informed about current work and discuss strategic decisions and directions with them.
Act as liaison between provider and cross-functional teams of stakeholders.

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