Data Center Site Manager
About the role
The Data Center Site Manager, (DCSM) is responsible for ensuring that all electrical, mechanical, and fire/life safety equipment within the data center is operating at peak efficiency. This involves both planned preventative maintenance of equipment, daily corrective work, and emergency response to emergent issues. The DCSM serves as an expert technical resource reporting to the Regional Director and interacting with On-Site Engineering Operations Technicians (EOT) and any third-party vendors. They are expected to be a singular focal point for all facility operations within a given data center. Data center equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. This equipment includes, but is not limited to, standby diesel generators, switchgear, UPSs, PDUs, AHUs, chillers, cooling towers, chemical treatment systems, pumps, motors, VFDs, and building automation systems.
Responsibilities
- Empowering a culture of safety, security, compliance, and transparency in all aspect of datacenter activities
- Leading and managing a team of high-performing individual contributors at a data center site and their ongoing talent development
- Financial administration of site activities and staff members, tracking budgets, payments and pay cycles.
- Managing and overseeing datacenter site services, resources, and deployment across the data center for the client in Montreal
- Collaborating and coordinating with multiple internal business groups to ensure the successful delivery of service levels
- Analyzing production operations and initiate corrective actions to ensure operational stability
- Initiate and establish quality standards for the Datacenter teams and manage those initiatives through to completion
- Learn, live, and coach the Salute culture and values.
- Lead through change and challenge by bringing clarity, generating energy, and delivering success
- Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in facilities systems.
- Complete planned and ad-hoc preventive maintenance work assignments requiring the skill and direction of several engineering, mechanical, and maintenance trades
- Conduct periodic inspections of building systems, i.e., HVAC, electrical