Manager, Data Center Facilities Engineering - Electrical

Role Overview

As a Facilities Manager supporting our Electrical Facilities, you will lead the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of mission-critical electrical systems supporting OCI data centers. This role owns electrical maintenance execution, vendor performance, technician leadership, operational readiness, and incident response to ensure continuous uptime and protection of compute load.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operation, maintenance, and service execution for critical electrical infrastructure.
• Single POC as the technical lead for all mechanical systems, including incident escalation.
• Own electrical plant readiness, including preventive maintenance, testing, repairs, corrective work, and outage coordination.
• Manage technicians, contractors, and service vendors, ensuring safety, quality, procedural discipline, and SLA performance.
• Oversee troubleshooting and restoration for electrical faults, equipment degradation, abnormal conditions, and operational incidents.
• Drive rigorous execution of switching, maintenance coordination, and safe work practices in line with approved procedures and code requirements.
• Track and improve KPIs such as equipment availability, backlog, incident trends, MTTR, maintenance completion, and corrective action closure.
• Partner with engineering, commissioning, and deployment teams on upgrades, lifecycle replacements, new capacity turn-up, and system handoff.
• Lead or support root cause analysis for electrical events and ensure corrective actions are documented, implemented, and sustained.
• Maintain accurate, audit-ready records including procedures, service reports, one-lines, test results, and CMMS data.
• Champion electrical safety, including NFPA 70E, LOTO, PPE, contractor compliance, and switching discipline.
• Coach and develop technicians and frontline leaders to reinforce safety, technical capability, and execution quality.

Qualifications

• Experience leading electrical maintenance, service execution, or plant operations in data centers or other mission-critical environments.
• Strong knowledge of switchgear, UPS systems, batteries, generators, transfer equipment, PDUs, grounding, and power distribution systems.
• Experience managing maintenance programs, outages, vendor execution, and incident response in live operational environments.
• Familiarity with EPMS, SCADA, BMS, and CMMS tools.
• Experience supporting commissioning, turnover, or acceptance of new electrical systems is preferred.

Skills And Competencies

• Strong electrical safety leadership and operational judgment.
• Ability to manage incidents calmly and communicate clearly under pressure.
• Strong ownership mindset with disciplined follow-through on risk reduction and corrective actions.
• High attention to detail in switching, procedures, documentation, and compliance execution.