Facilities Manager, Data Center Operations (English, French)
By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Saint-Ghislain, Belgium; Farciennes, Belgium.
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
* 8 years of experience in critical facilities management, including facility, technical and team management.
* Troubleshooting experience for electrical distribution systems.
* Experience as a facilities manager or chief engineer within a critical facility.
* Ability to communicate in English and French fluently to work with colleagues.
Preferred qualifications:
* Master's degree in Engineering, or a related field.
* Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
* Knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
* Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
* 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.
Responsibilities
* Plan and execute campus operational budgets, expense forecasting, and manage established budgets.
* 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.
* Manage a team that will support startup, commissioning, and integration of new electrical equipment and systems into a new facilities infrastructure.
* Manage a team responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical distribution systems and power monitoring.
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