Vice President, Reliability and Technical Assurance, Global

About the role

The role is a build mandate to shape a new senior leadership role at Vantage Data Centers. The successful candidate will establish the fleetwide reliability baseline and risk model, define a risk-ranking method, and lead technical assurance, inspection, and critical control verification.

Responsibilities

• Establish the fleetwide reliability baseline and risk model.
• Build the common reliability and resilience baseline.
• Define a risk-ranking method that leads with customer-impacting risk.
• Stand up the recurring assurance cycle and the evidence model for critical controls.
• Lead technical assurance, inspection, and critical control verification.
• Lead high-consequence independent reviews and field verification across electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, emergency response, and commissioning.
• Drive corrective action and closed-loop learning.
• Translate incidents, near misses, and weak signals into structured learning.
• Maintain a risk-ranked corrective action register.
• Ensure validated lessons feed into the standards, procedures, telemetry, supplier requirements, training, and capital plans that apply across the fleet.
• Foster transparent reporting and accountable learning.
• Build an environment in which honest errors, near misses, and weak signals are surfaced early, and frontline teams are treated as a primary source of operational intelligence.
• Develop the roadmap for configuration and automation drift detection.
• Partner with Product, Automation, IT, and Cybersecurity on requirements for telemetry, alarm quality, configuration management, and AI-enabled drift detection.

Requirements

• 15+ years in mission-critical operations, reliability engineering, operational assurance, critical facilities, industrial operations, process safety, or another high-reliability environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading reliability, technical assurance, operational excellence, engineering assurance, or risk-based inspection across a complex operating fleet.
• Strong working understanding of mission-critical electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, commissioning, maintenance, and operating procedure environments.
• Experience investigating incidents, near misses, recurring defects, or systemic reliability issues and converting findings into practical corrective actions.
• Experience building governance or assurance systems that drive operational improvement rather than reporting alone.
• Credible field presence: comfortable with site walks, control rooms, methods of procedure, maintenance realities, and difficult technical conversations — not solely an executive-reporting leader.
• The ability to operate through influence in a matrixed environment, with the credibility to challenge senior regional, operations, engineering, and technical leaders while maintaining trust and partnership.
• Executive-level communication: concise risk narratives, decision-ready papers, and credibility with a senior executive audience.

Preferred

• Hyperscale data center or colocation operations experience.
• Experience in adjacent high-reliability sectors — utilities, power generation, aviation, semiconductor manufacturing, oil and gas, nuclear, pharmaceuticals, or advanced manufacturing.
• Familiarity with operational technology, BMS and SCADA, alarm quality, configuration management, and telemetry.
• Experience building or scaling a new function in a high-growth environment.
• Professional engineering qualification or equivalent technical credibility.