Data Center Facility Manager

About the role

Nesco Resource is seeking a Data Center Facilities Manager with a premier Data Center Integrator in Ashburn. This is a great opportunity to get your foot in the door with a national provider of wholesale data centers and colocation services and expand your data center network and experience. The position provides maintenance support and management for the Data Center and campus.

Responsibilities

• Maintains all mechanical, structural and directly supports safety and critical operations in the facility.
• Direct supervision of the Building Engineering team and provides coordinated direction over all data center facility repairs and change/install/expansion efforts.
• Responsible for diesel and water storage systems.
• Maintains the data center campus landscape and irrigation.
• Manages and schedules the facilities Building Engineers and contractors.
• Reports to the Regional VP.
• Maintains 100% availability in colocation data center critical facility.
• Provides supervision to the team of Building Engineers.
• Indirect management for Data Center Support Technicians & physical security.
• Manages staff providing schedules, training, preparedness and growth.
• Manages operation and maintenance of all environmental and power systems to ensure 100% availability to raised floors including building management system control and coordinating efforts with contractors.
• Responsible for customer support and satisfaction.
• Estimates time and materials needed to complete repairs and new projects.
• Plans, procures, and manages installation of all systems to support computer hardware initiatives.
• Contributes to creating, tracking and maintaining operational budget for facility.
• Directs, oversees, supervises and inspects the work performed by outside contractors.
• Provides 24x7x365 on‑call support to provide continuous operations.
• Manages all contracts, procedures and service agreements to ensure proper compliance.
• Responsible for managing maintenance work order and asset tracking software, including uploading new work orders and processes as required.
• Ensures operating parameters and maintenance processes, procedures, and frequencies are adhered to, updated, and developed as necessary.
• Maintains all drawings, project documentation, and space planning for the site.
• Complies with all applicable codes, regulations, governmental agency and company directives related to building operations and work safety.
• Responsible for building management system control and coordinating efforts with controls contractors.
• Writes and tracks root cause of all problems and malfunctions, taking corrective action and driving process improvements as required.
• Communicates complex technical information to multiple people with various levels of technical knowledge.
• Responsible for increasing efficiencies and maintaining reliability of all mechanical and electrical systems.
• Performs risk analysis and creates scopes of work related to preventative maintenance and resolution needs on building and facility equipment.
• Communicates daily with visitors, vendors, contractors, customers, and management.

Requirements

• 3 years' experience in a data center is a must.
• Experience managing others (direct reports) is a must.
• 5 years of experience in a Data Center environment.
• 5 years' experience related to building management.
• 5 years' experience with building automation systems; Client Foreseer or Vigilent controls experience a plus.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Physical requirements include stooping, standing, walking, climbing stairs/ladders and ability to lift/carry heavy loads of 50 lbs.

Skills

• Comprehensive knowledge of Electrical, Mechanical, industrial HVAC, and Plumbing systems.
• Strong team management, coaching, & leadership abilities.
• Excellent customer service.
• Able to read complex building drawings and schematics.
• Able to evaluate importance and urgency of projects based on cost, risk, safety, etc.
• High level interpersonal communication skills.
• Decisions made with understanding of procedures and company policies to achieve set results and deadlines.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Office software packages required; abilities in AutoCAD and/or Visio a plus.