Senior Manager, Data Center Reliability Engineering - Michigan

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · MI

Lead reliability engineering and analytics teams for data center operations, focusing on identifying risks, improving maintenance, strengthening incident learning, and ensuring corrective actions. The role translates operational data into standards and decisions to protect uptime and support capacity growth.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead reliability engineering and analytics teams supporting multiple sites, regions, or infrastructure programs across mission-critical facilities environments.
  2. Define and standardize reliability engineering methods, including FMEA, RCA, RCM, critical assessment, defect elimination, and continuous improvement practices.
  3. Establish reliability programs for electrical, mechanical, and controls systems that improve asset health, reduce repeat failures, and strengthen operational resilience.
  4. Oversee deployment and effective use of monitoring, alarming, analytics, and automation tools that support predictive maintenance, asset performance visibility, and reliability decision-making.
  5. Define, track, and report portfolio reliability of KPIs, trends, risks, and corrective action status to executive leadership and global operations stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • 5–7+ years of experience in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, critical facilities, manufacturing, utilities, industrial operations, or other uptime-critical environments
  • 2–4+ years of experience leading engineers, analysts, or technical programs across multiple sites, business units, or complex infrastructure environments
  • Strong background in reliability frameworks, structured root cause analysis, maintenance strategy, asset lifecycle planning, and operational risk reduction.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with operations, design, construction, commissioning, and vendor partners.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, OR relevent industry experience
  • Strong technical leadership and ability to influence engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical judgment and ability to translate reliability data into practical decisions, priorities, and executive-level recommendations.
  • Deep familiarity with RCA rigor, FMEA/FMECA, reliability metrics, maintenance optimization, and continuous improvement methods.
  • Ability to connect site-level issues to portfolio-wide patterns, risks, and opportunities.
  • Clear communicator who can explain technical tradeoffs, operational risk, and recommended actions to mixed audiences.
  • Strong organizational discipline, follow-through, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

  • Experience in hyperscale data centers or other mission-critical environments supporting electrical distribution, mechanical cooling systems, controls/automation platforms, and integrated facility operations.
  • Experience with predictive maintenance programs, condition-based monitoring, failure trend analysis, and asset health modeling.
  • Familiarity with reliability, availability, and maintainability analysis; maintenance strategy development; spare parts optimization; and lifecycle cost evaluation.
  • Experience supporting or governing commissioning, operational acceptance, maintenance of program design, and system readiness for new or modified installations.
  • Working knowledge of monitoring and analytics platforms, CMMS/EAM systems, DCIM, EPMS/BMS data, and automation tools used to improve facility reliability.
  • Experience building KPI dashboards and reporting frameworks for senior operations or executive leadership.
  • Knowledge of reliability practices across electrical, mechanical, and controls systems, even if prior domain depth is strongest in one area.
  • Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) preferred.
  • Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) preferred.
  • ASQ, SMRP, or equivalent reliability and quality certifications are a plus.
  • Data center or critical environment credentials such as Uptime Institute training/certifications are a plus where relevant to the role.
  • OEM, controls, analytics, or condition-monitoring training relevant to critical infrastructure reliability programs is a plus.
  • Advanced training in FMEA, RCA, Lean, Six Sigma, or structured problem-solving methodologies is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • reliability engineering
  • maintenance strategies
  • incident learning
  • corrective actions
  • operational data
  • engineering analysis
  • portfolio-level standards
  • priorities
  • decisions
  • protect uptime
  • long-term capacity growth
  • reliability engineering
  • analytics teams
  • mission-critical facilities environments
  • reliability engineering methods
  • FMEA
  • RCA
  • RCM
  • critical assessment
  • defect elimination
  • continuous improvement practices
  • reliability programs
  • electrical
  • mechanical
  • controls systems
  • asset health
  • repeat failures
  • operational resilience
  • monitoring
  • alarming
  • analytics
  • automation tools
  • predictive maintenance
  • asset performance visibility
  • reliability decision-making
  • portfolio reliability
  • KPIs
  • trends
  • risks
  • corrective action status
  • executive leadership
  • global operations stakeholders
  • corrective actions
  • incidents
  • failure analyses
  • audits
  • trend reviews
  • effectiveness
  • sustained
  • site operations teams
  • maintenance programs
  • troubleshooting rigor
  • failure response
  • operational readiness
  • procedure quality
  • commissioning
  • acceptance testing
  • operational handover
  • major maintenance
  • retrofits
  • equipment lifecycle planning
  • asset utilization
  • failure history
  • equipment health
  • remaining useful life
  • spare parts strategy
  • end-of-life risk
  • design
  • construction
  • procurement teams
  • maintainability
  • standardization
  • total cost of ownership
  • new
  • existing infrastructure
  • engineers
  • analysts
  • coaching
  • technical review
  • prioritization discipline
  • data-driven problem solving
  • operating rhythms
  • priorities
  • escalation paths
  • portfolio visibility
  • follow-through
  • clear
  • consistent
  • reliability engineering
  • maintenance engineering
  • critical facilities
  • manufacturing
  • utilities
  • industrial operations
  • uptime-critical environments
  • data center experience
  • adjacent industry experience
  • highly relevant
  • leading engineers
  • analysts
  • technical programs
  • multiple sites
  • business units
  • complex infrastructure environments
  • reliability frameworks
  • structured root cause analysis
  • maintenance strategy
  • asset lifecycle planning
  • operational risk reduction
  • cross-functionally
  • operations
  • design
  • construction
  • commissioning
  • vendor partners
  • technical leadership
  • influence engineering
  • operations
  • business stakeholders
  • analytical judgment
  • translate reliability data
  • practical decisions
  • priorities
  • executive-level recommendations
  • RCA rigor
  • FMEA/FMECA
  • reliability metrics
  • maintenance optimization
  • continuous improvement methods
  • site-level issues
  • portfolio-wide patterns
  • risks
  • opportunities
  • technical tradeoffs
  • operational risk
  • recommended actions
  • mixed audiences
  • organizational discipline
  • follow-through
  • manage multiple priorities
  • fast-moving environment
  • hyperscale data centers
  • mission-critical environments
  • electrical distribution
  • mechanical cooling systems
  • controls/automation platforms
  • integrated facility operations
  • predictive maintenance programs
  • condition-based monitoring
  • failure trend analysis
  • asset health modeling
  • reliability
  • availability
  • maintainability analysis
  • maintenance strategy development
  • spare parts optimization
  • lifecycle cost evaluation
  • commissioning
  • operational acceptance
  • maintenance of program design
  • system readiness
  • new
  • modified installations
  • monitoring
  • analytics platforms
  • CMMS/EAM systems
  • DCIM
  • EPMS/BMS data
  • automation tools
  • facility reliability
  • KPI dashboards
  • reporting frameworks
  • senior operations
  • executive leadership
  • reliability practices
  • electrical
  • mechanical
  • controls systems
  • domain depth
  • Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP)
  • Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
  • ASQ
  • SMRP
  • reliability
  • quality certifications
  • Data center
  • critical environment credentials
  • Uptime Institute training/certifications
  • OEM
  • controls
  • analytics
  • condition-monitoring training
  • critical infrastructure reliability programs
  • FMEA
  • RCA
  • Lean
  • Six Sigma
  • structured problem-solving methodologies
  • mission-critical OCI data centers
  • regions
  • continents