Data Center Manager - Mechanical

The Essential Infrastructure Manager is a part of the Data Center Operations Team. The Essential Infrastructure Manager shall provide leadership and management for day-to-day operations of a large scale Data Center mechanical plant, while ensuring the highest levels of reliability and availability are maintained.

What you’ll do • Possess a comprehensive knowledge of large scale Data Centers, including mechanical and fire protection infrastructures • Possess a thorough understanding of building automation systems that assist in the operation and control of the mechanical plant infrastructure • Schedule, coordinate and participate in all significant planned and emergency maintenance for the facility • Shall ensure all maintenance for the facility is executed in a controlled and proven a method that ensures uninterrupted integrity of the critical loads supported by these systems • Developing operating and maintenance strategies to ensure continuous availability of all critical systems • Developing and updating preventative and predictive maintenance programs for essential equipment • Coordinating and inspecting services performed by outsourced vendors • Managing costs and budgets associated with the Essential Infrastructure Department and associated operations • Maintaining an environment where diligence to policies and proven policies processes are quintessential • Ensuring best practices and standards are adopted and enforced • Identifying and pursuing opportunities for innovation • Establishing and cultivating relationships with key contacts internally and externally • Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities. What you’ll need • Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or a two-year Technical Degree • 5 years of facility management or facility engineering in a high reliability Data Center environment • Expertise in Microsoft Office suite applications, preferably Microsoft Project, Visio or AutoCad • Advanced written communication and technical writing skills • Complex problem solving using analysis, technical and organizational expertise in order to develop creative innovative solutions • Must be able to create consensus around new ideas and initiatives • Identify industry trends and articulate implications that will have an impact on the Data Center operation • Actively solicits feedback to ensure all activities and deliverables meet expectations • Identifies opportunities to increase efficiency • Extended hours may be significant at times • Strong written and verbal command of the English language • Responsible attitude with strong work ethic; leading by example in attendance, attitude and technical work product • Ability and willingness to respond to emails after hours in the event of an emergency A bit about us Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.