Site Critical Facilities Manager

Skills

About the Role

You will represent Verda for the physical site and be accountable for power, cooling and everything that keeps it available. You will manage the outsourced facilities vendor, keep maintenance and change work safe and planned, lead response to power and cooling incidents, and own the facilities side of the site buildout, including asset register, maintenance plans and handover readiness.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience running critical facilities (electrical, mechanical and cooling) in a live data center or comparable environment
• Experience managing outsourced vendors against SLAs and KPIs
• Experience leading response to power and cooling incidents including root cause analysis
• Electrical safety competence and experience as authorised person for permit-to-work and isolations
• Experience planning maintenance, change windows and lifecycle or capex budgets
• Professional working proficiency in English
• Willingness to work fully on site

Responsibilities

• Own the outsourced facilities contract and manage vendor performance through SLAs, KPIs and reviews, and validate invoices
• Approve maintenance plans, method statements and change windows
• Act as authorised person for permit-to-work and isolations and keep the site compliant
• Lead response to power and cooling events and share the facilities on-call rota
• Own the asset register, asset lifecycle and capex planning
• Own energy and PUE reporting and drive improvements
• Own the facilities side of expansion from handover readiness to maintenance setup

Benefits

• Cash and equity compensation
• Local benefits
• Relocation support