Manager, Data Center Facilities Engineering - Electrical

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · WI

This role manages the operation and maintenance of critical electrical infrastructure in data centers, focusing on safety, reliability, and compliance. Responsibilities include leading day-to-day operations, managing technicians and vendors, overseeing troubleshooting and restoration, and ensuring adherence to safety procedures and code requirements. The role also involves tracking KPIs, partnering with engineering teams on upgrades, and maintaining accurate records.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead day-to-day operation, maintenance, and service execution for critical electrical infrastructure.
  2. Own electrical plant readiness, including preventive maintenance, testing, repairs, corrective work, and outage coordination.
  3. Manage technicians, contractors, and service vendors, ensuring safety, quality, procedural discipline, and SLA performance.
  4. Oversee troubleshooting and restoration for electrical faults, equipment degradation, abnormal conditions, and operational incidents.
  5. Drive rigorous execution of switching, maintenance coordination, and safe work practices in line with approved procedures and code requirements.

Skills

Required

  • Experience leading electrical maintenance, service execution, or plant operations in data centers or other mission-critical environments.
  • Strong knowledge of switchgear, UPS systems, batteries, generators, transfer equipment, PDUs, grounding, and power distribution systems.
  • Experience managing maintenance programs, outages, vendor execution, and incident response in live operational environments.
  • Strong electrical safety leadership and operational judgment.
  • Ability to manage incidents calmly and communicate clearly under pressure.
  • Strong ownership mindset with disciplined follow-through on risk reduction and corrective actions.
  • High attention to detail in switching, procedures, documentation, and compliance execution.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with EPMS, SCADA, BMS, and CMMS tools.
  • Experience supporting commissioning, turnover, or acceptance of new electrical systems is preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • mission-critical electrical systems
  • operational readiness
  • incident response
  • continuous uptime
  • electrical safety
  • NFPA 70E
  • LOTO
  • PPE
  • switching discipline