The Federal Critical Environment Manager is responsible for the Data Center facility technical strategy, continuous improvement and development support.  This role will support the electrical, mechanical, FLS, and DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure management) platforms from a site operations standpoint. This role will collaborate with the Engineering Manager on technical operations and daily facility needs. This role will own the strategic projects and continuous improvement site items. This leader should have experience with mechanical and electrical data center infrastructure, codes, regulations, required and applied safety standards and practices. This role will oversee the teams who perform preventative and corrective maintenance on mechanical equipment. This role will suggest, plan, and implement measures that increase the energy efficiency of the facility.

This role requires work hours to support a 7X24X365 data center environment. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES includes the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Maintain, establish and implement facility policies, procedures and organizational structure within the boundaries established by senior management team and corporate policy while ensuring no contradiction in federal, state and local operating regulations or laws
• Develop and maintain efficient maintenance matrixed operations utilizing  maintenance governance, standards utilizing in-house staffing and vendor support to provide 100% up-time of all mechanical,  life safety, monitoring and control systems. This includes but is not limited to developing and coordinating maintenance agreements, maintenance procedures, testing procedures, inspections, reporting, accounting practices and reporting
• Development of emergency response planning and response management and reporting of incident and emergency situations for all mechanical, associated controls and plumbing systems
• Develop, direct and monitor short-term and long-range business plans consistent with overall profit and growth objectives of the company that establishes operations standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, safety, and an environmentally friendly community partner
• Supervise the preparation of and implementation of effective operating budget.
• Oversee operations budget to ensure compliance with organizational expenditure requirements
• Ensure the pro-active delivery of corporate services support, power services, FTE headcount projections, planning, budgeting, capital projects, maintenance, and business continuity/disaster recovery
• Help negotiate improvement project contracts as needed on leased and owned real estate
• Confer with professional operations staff subject matter experts (SME’S) to find resolution to operational problems, develop and authorize operational procedures and approve all major estimates
• Utilize comparative evaluations between mechanical and controls systems performance and key performance indicators to monitor the effectiveness of operational programs through benchmarking and the utilization of best practices.
• Ensure facilities’ mechanical, controls, monitoring, and fire-life safety systems compliance with all governmental regulatory operating guidelines
• Obtain and keep current all necessary licenses, permits and certifications as required.
• Supervises, trains, develops and coaches employees.
• Works with direct reports to establish performance goals, monitors progress, and advises on ways to enhance their professional development and success.