Critical Facilities Manager, Data Center

Houston, TX | On-site

Our client, a data center services provider, is seeking a Critical Facilities Manager, Data Center to oversee site operations, lead technical personnel, and support dependable service for customers.

This position brings together infrastructure maintenance, operational planning, and customer communication, with responsibility for keeping the facility prepared for routine work, unexpected events, and new installations.

This Role Offers

• Annual performance bonus opportunity linked to operational reliability, safe execution, and customer experience.
• Broad ownership of site performance, team development, contractor relationships, and operating resources.
• Direct involvement in facility improvements and the transition of completed construction into ongoing operations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee electrical distribution, backup power, cooling, fire protection, building controls, physical security, and general property upkeep to support continuous operations and customer service commitments.
• Manage preventive and corrective maintenance through a computerized maintenance management system, maintaining service schedules, spare-parts readiness, equipment history, and supporting records.
• Develop and approve maintenance, operating, and emergency procedures; enforce change controls, contingency planning, and safe execution of switching and other high-risk activities.
• Supervise technical staff across shifts, coordinate coverage and time approvals, recruit and coach employees, and maintain training, qualification, and emergency drill programs.
• Serve as the facilities contact for customers, coordinating onboarding, installation readiness, service requests, tours, maintenance notices, incident updates, and resolution of concerns.
• Direct emergency response and root-cause investigations, track power and cooling availability with engineering resources, and maintain safety, environmental, permit, and audit documentation.
• Administer site budgets and vendor agreements, review service scopes and invoices, and coordinate commissioning, acceptance testing, punch-list resolution, and complete construction handover records.

Qualifications

• At least eight years of critical-facility operations experience, including three or more years supervising technical teams that work across shifts; backgrounds in data centers, hospital utility plants, utilities, military operations, or nuclear facilities are relevant.
• Hands-on knowledge of medium- and low-voltage distribution, generators, UPS equipment, transfer switches, power distribution units, chillers, air-handling equipment, pumps, controls, and fire and life-safety systems.
• Experience writing procedures used by field personnel, administering maintenance software, and interpreting electrical one-line diagrams, mechanical flow drawings, and equipment operating sequences.
• Demonstrated ownership of operating budgets and service contracts, along with direct customer interaction involving onboarding, service concerns, site visits, or audits.
• Ability to communicate technical issues clearly, exercise sound judgment during disruptions, and apply electrical safety, hazardous-energy control, and other facility work safeguards.
• An engineering or technical degree, relevant trade credentials, or comparable progressive field experience; commissioning experience and credentials such as ATS/AOS, CDCP/CDCS, DCOM, NFPA 70E qualification, or OSHA 30 are preferred.
• Availability for full-time on-site work, around-the-clock on-call coverage with arrival within 60 minutes when required, scheduled night or weekend maintenance, and occasional travel; ability to work around heat and noise, use ladders and lifts, and lift 50 pounds.

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