Manager, Data Center Facilities Engineering - Mechanical

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · WI

Manager for Mechanical Facilities Engineering in Oracle's data centers, responsible for the safe, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of critical mechanical systems, including chillers, cooling towers, and HVAC infrastructure. The role focuses on plant operations, service execution, vendor management, and technician leadership to ensure uptime and adherence to Oracle standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead daily operations, maintenance, and service execution for critical mechanical and HVAC infrastructure.
  2. Own mechanical plant readiness, including preventive maintenance, corrective work, inspections, and restoration activities.
  3. Single POC as the technical lead for all mechanical systems, including incident escalation.
  4. Manage technicians, contractors, and service vendors, ensuring strong safety performance, quality, documentation, and SLA adherence.
  5. Drive troubleshooting and response for mechanical failures, abnormal conditions, and performance degradation impacting uptime.

Skills

Required

  • Experience leading mechanical plant operations, HVAC service, or critical cooling maintenance in data centers or other uptime-critical environments.
  • Strong knowledge of chilled water systems, cooling towers, pumps, CRAHs, AHUs, CDUs, and related controls platforms.
  • Experience managing vendors, maintenance programs, incident response, and service execution in 24x7 operations.
  • Familiarity with BMS, SCADA, DCIM, and CMMS tools.
  • Strong troubleshooting judgment and calm decision-making under pressure.
  • Deep commitment to safety, procedure adherence, and documentation rigor.
  • Clear communicator able to translate plant conditions, risks, and actions for varied stakeholders.
  • Strong planning and execution discipline across maintenance, backlog, and operational priorities.

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting commissioning, turnover, or operational acceptance of new or upgraded systems is preferred.