Technical Operations Manager, Third Party Data Centers

**Minimum qualifications**:- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.- 7 years of experience in a Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC), electrical, controls, water chemistry, generators, mechanical, or other similar technical domain.- 3 years of experience in a data center or facilities environment.- Ability to communicate in English and Spanish fluently to support client relationship and partnership management in this region.**Preferred qualifications**:- Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, or Reliability Engineering.- Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including executives.- Experience with Reliability Centered Maintenance and in engineering.- Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.About the jobAt Google, we aim to foster Googley work environments that are collaborative, friendly and fun.The Facilities Management team brings our spaces to life as you oversee the daily operations of our offices.While roles with similar names at other companies can be far more mundane, you're a creative, organized customer service specialist, who takes pride in seeing things run smoothly and efficiently.You go out of your way to make sure that clients are not only satisfied, but singing Google's praises.You're comfortable in a fast-paced environment with the highest standards of excellence.You aren't afraid to have fun with your job, and bring an enthusiasm, dedication and a collaborative spirit to build and maintain office spaces that facilitate some of the world's most cutting edge innovation.In this role, you will partner with the Google Data Center developing teams, hardware operations, network infrastructure, and third-party data center vendors and operators with a focus on operability, maintainability, and reliability.Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running.From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible.We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them.We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.**Responsibilities**:- Motivate efforts to test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical equipment operation in your data center domain.- Lead efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally.Ensure regional and global teams are complying with project or schedule guidelines and Google design standards.- Drive efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure response to any excursions.- Drive efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.- Lead the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with motivating site-level development of programs and initiatives.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 alsoGoogle's EEO Policy andEEO is the Law.If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form.