Data Center Services Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Construction Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
• 3 years of experience developing and managing managers.
• Experience with project and vendor management.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 15 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
• Experience in managing construction projects within an international working environment or with commercial agreement management and procurement.
• Experience in managing vendor relationships, with the knowledge of standard practices in the design and construction industry.
• Experience in working within the mission critical sector.
• Experience with data center equipment/environments, including switchgear, generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, controls, security monitoring systems, and fire safety systems.
  
  

About The Job

As a Data Center Services Manager (DCS), you will be fully involved in nearly every aspect of the design development and localization, procurement, schedule and cost management, delivery, commissioning, handover and close-out of our data centre projects, including facility upgrades within operational data centres. You will partner with our local/regional facility managers, plant engineers, our design, project controls, delivery, and commissioning teams, to develop scalable solutions at pace. In this role, you will manage complex schedules, budgets and broad inter-dependencies, all while maintaining industry leading EHS and Quality standards.You will use your communication, collaborative and organizational skills.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of localized designs leveraged from programmatic design, supporting procurement, construction, commissioning, closeout to the operations team while meeting safety, cost, schedule and quality goals and established customer requirements.
• Establish and maintain delivery models and global relationships with multiple vendors, measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics.
• Develop growth plans and lead talent recruitment initiatives, delivering onboarding programs to ensure the success of newly-added team members.
• Lead the identification, selection and onboarding of new regional contractors and vendors to increase the current bench.
• Manage a large, campus-wide data center construction and delivery organization with the DCS Manager as the single point of accountability and oversight new construction projects, or large capital improvement projects in existing facilities, utilizing internal and extended workforce resources.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .