Director, Data Center Facilities Services - Michigan

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · MI

Director of Data Center Facilities Services responsible for leading senior service managers and their organizations to self-perform maintenance in-house, driving disciplined execution of preventive and corrective maintenance, operational rigor, workforce leadership, and continuous improvement across OCI’s data center portfolio. This role owns service delivery performance, contractor management, and champions safety and compliance in 24x7 mission-critical environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the Facilities Operations Services organization responsible for maintenance execution, operational support, and field service readiness across mission-critical data center environments.
  2. Provide leadership and direction to senior service managers across mechanical, electrical, and other facilities service functions, ensuring alignment in execution standards, priorities, technician performance, and service delivery expectations.
  3. Own service delivery performance across preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, inspections, restoration support, lifecycle service activities, and vendor-delivered work.
  4. Drive the strategy and operating model to expand in-house self-perform maintenance capability where prudent, improving control, consistency, response readiness, and long-term service quality.
  5. Ensure consistency in work execution, documentation, escalation management, backlog reduction, response quality, and service readiness across all supported sites.

Skills

Required

  • 7-10+ years of experience in facilities operations, maintenance leadership, technical services, or mission-critical infrastructure environments.
  • 5+ years of experience leading managers, service teams, or vendor organizations in data centers, utilities, industrial plants, healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, or similar uptime-critical environments.
  • Strong knowledge of critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure, including cooling systems, HVAC, power distribution, backup generation, UPS, switchgear, and related maintenance and service workflows.
  • Proven experience leading maintenance execution, vendor performance, service operations, and restoration support in 24x7 operating environments.
  • Experience establishing performance metrics, operational governance, and standardized service practices across multiple teams, functions, or sites.
  • Familiarity with CMMS, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, DCIM, and other systems supporting service planning, execution, and monitoring.
  • Strong service operations leadership with a clear focus on execution quality, readiness, and uptime protection.
  • Ability to lead through managers while reinforcing accountability, consistency, and operational discipline.
  • Strong communication and escalation management skills in high-pressure operational environments.
  • Strong vendor management and cross-functional coordination capability.
  • Analytical and process-oriented mindset, with the ability to turn performance data into operational improvements.
  • Strong judgment in balancing safety, speed, operational risk, service continuity, and long-term maintainability.
  • Ability to build organizational capability and scale service programs across a growing global portfolio.

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting commissioning, turnover, lifecycle replacement, or operational acceptance activities is preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Operations, or related field preferred; equivalent technical and leadership experience also valued.

What the JD emphasized

  • self-perform maintenance
  • lead senior service managers
  • drive disciplined execution
  • operational rigor
  • workforce leadership
  • continuous improvement
  • service delivery performance
  • expand in-house self-perform maintenance capability
  • standardization of service procedures
  • champion safety and compliance
  • workforce planning
  • systemic risks
  • recurring operational issues
  • continuous improvement initiatives
  • service reliability
  • execution consistency
  • efficiency
  • field readiness
  • senior leadership updates
  • facilities operations
  • maintenance leadership
  • technical services
  • mission-critical infrastructure
  • leading managers
  • vendor organizations
  • data centers
  • utilities
  • industrial plants
  • healthcare
  • telecom
  • manufacturing
  • uptime-critical environments
  • critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure
  • cooling systems
  • HVAC
  • power distribution
  • backup generation
  • UPS
  • switchgear
  • maintenance and service workflows
  • maintenance execution
  • vendor performance
  • service operations
  • restoration support
  • 24x7 operating environments
  • performance metrics
  • operational governance
  • standardized service practices
  • CMMS
  • BMS
  • EPMS
  • SCADA
  • DCIM
  • service planning
  • execution
  • monitoring
  • commissioning
  • turnover
  • lifecycle replacement
  • operational acceptance
  • service operations leadership
  • execution quality
  • readiness
  • uptime protection
  • lead through managers
  • accountability
  • consistency
  • operational discipline
  • communication
  • escalation management
  • high-pressure operational environments
  • vendor management
  • cross-functional coordination
  • analytical and process-oriented mindset
  • performance data
  • operational improvements
  • judgment
  • safety
  • speed
  • operational risk
  • service continuity
  • long-term maintainability
  • build organizational capability
  • scale service programs
  • global portfolio
  • Global impact at scale
  • mission-critical OCI data centers
  • infrastructure reliability
  • security
  • sustainability
  • long-term capacity growth
  • Technically rigorous environment
  • experienced engineers
  • automation specialists
  • compliance teams
  • rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure
  • disciplined execution
  • technical depth