Data Center Critical Environment Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Ensure that electrical, mechanical, and/or fire/life safety equipment within the datacenter is operating at peak efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with infrastructure operations standardization
• Driving cost/energy efficiency projects
• This involves utilizing computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)and monitoring the performance of electrical plant and machinery, ensuring work is undertaken to prevent failure/loss of the plant and equipment and the production of work order and allocating the work daily to the Technicians, monitoring progress, and inspecting completed work to ensure the required standards are achieved.
• Establish working relationships with customers.
• Identifying single points-of-failure at regional datacenter locations
• Manage, plan control and organize the planned preventative and corrective electrical and/or mechanical equipment.
• Management of small-to-medium projects from conception to completion
• Ensure routine reporting for critical infrastructure, inclusive of operational and maintenance Key performance indicators (KPIs), objectives, organizational polices, procedures, and standards.
• Drive identification and remediation of vulnerabilities (such as single points of failure). Provide recommendations on new data center equipment designs, technologies, and construction methods. Drive cost/energy efficiency projects
• Oversee the day-to-day operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment in a datacenter
  • Manage, plan control and organize the planned preventative and corrective electrical and/or mechanical equipment.
  • This involves utilizing computerized maintenance management system
    (CMMS)and monitoring the performance of electrical plant and machinery, ensuring work is undertaken to prevent failure/loss of the plant and equipment and the production of work order and allocating the work daily to the Technicians, monitoring progress, and inspecting completed work to ensure the required standards are achieved.
• Act as an escalation point for all facilities-related issues within the datacenter, escalating to the Data Operations Manager as needed. This may include assisting technicians in times of emergencies, job training, and providing input/recommendations on electrical/mechanical design parameters.
• Coordinate, plan, schedule, and supervise Critical Environment audits and compliance verifications

• Learn, live, and coach the One Microsoft culture and values. Lead through change by bringing clarity, generating energy, and delivering success
• Removes barriers to agility to enable the team to shift priorities quickly without losing productivity.
• Promotes a culture of safety, security, and compliance in all aspect of datacenter activities
• Share best practices, assists others in learning role, process, procedures; and mentors others
• Embody our culture and values
• Realize the impact of change on others

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent AND 1+ year(s) industry experience
  • OR 2+ years industry experience and college course work
• OR 2+ years industry experience and college course work
• To promote health and safety in the workplace, employees are subject to required health related screenings, such as hearing testing, which includes both baseline testing and annual retests, where permitted by applicable law.

• Criminal Justice Information Services: This position may require passing a background check conducted through the CJIS criminal justice information system by authorized local, state, and/or federal agencies.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship Verification :This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local or United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

• 2+ years of experience with project management or relevant certification/training in project management
• 1+ years of relevant work experience in a datacenter or other critical environment with focus on mechanical or electrical maintenance/operations.
  • Some examples of mechanical equipment in the critical environment may include (but not be limited to): AHUs, CRAHUs, Exhaust Fans, etc.
  • Some examples of electrical equipment in the critical environment may include (but not be limited to): UPSs, PDUs, Generators, Switchgear, etc.
• Some examples of electrical equipment in the critical environment may include (but not be limited to): UPSs, PDUs, Generators, Switchgear, etc.
• Experience with physical Information Technology infrastructures (e.g. Servers, SANs, Networking, etc.)
• Some examples of mechanical equipment in the critical environment may include (but not be limited to): AHUs, CRAHUs, Exhaust Fans, etc.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) or similar certification