180412: Facilities Operator

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About the Company

Department: Data Center Operations

Location: River Bend, LA

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Number of Openings: 20

About the Role

Job Description: Facilities Operator

Overview:

• Serve as a facilities and critical-infrastructure resource onsite.
• Support power, cooling, resiliency, and building readiness across the data center.
• Help maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure for high-density AI workloads.

Client is seeking Facilities Operators with strong technical infrastructure backgrounds who are passionate about engineering excellence and developing effective, sustainable solutions. Candidates should understand the challenges associated with deploying infrastructure at scale and have experience supporting systems that meet high standards for performance, availability, security, resiliency, and cost. The work performed in this role will help shape operational processes and infrastructure standards across the broader organization.

Responsibilities

Focus Areas:

• Power and electrical infrastructure.
• Cooling and mechanical systems.
• Facility resiliency and redundancy.
• Building and data-center readiness.
• Critical infrastructure maintenance and incident response.

About the Team:

• The Data Center Operations team supports Client’s rapid growth by deploying and operating hyperscale data centers.
• The team takes full onsite responsibility for each facility and manages the end-to-end lifecycle of the hardware fleet and supporting infrastructure.
• This includes delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions and services across active data-center environments.

Responsibilities:

• Support Data Center Operations teams as a facilities and critical-infrastructure resource.
• Serve as a subject-matter resource for data-center critical infrastructure and facilities within the white space.
• Understand and manage facility design limitations, capacity constraints, and operational risks.
• Regularly audit and review infrastructure posture, maintenance programs, and service effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Client’s colocation partners, service providers, vendors, and internal teams.
• Manage and support the change-management process for high-risk maintenance activities.
• Respond to incidents as an onsite first responder while coordinating with data-center engineering and infrastructure SMEs.
• Support power, cooling, mechanical, and facility-readiness initiatives.
• Maintain positive and collaborative working relationships with customers, partner teams, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Support construction, commissioning, maintenance, and operational-readiness activities.
• Identify process improvements that increase facility reliability, safety, and operational consistency.

Qualifications

Must-Have Qualifications:

• Critical-facilities, building-engineering, or data-center operations experience.
• Experience supporting electrical and mechanical infrastructure in live environments.
• Strong understanding of cooling systems; liquid-cooling experience is highly valued.
• Ability to respond to infrastructure incidents and coordinate with technical SMEs.
• Strong communication, documentation, and vendor-management skills.

Relevant Backgrounds

Candidates may come from:

• Equinix.
• Colocation providers.
• Switch.
• CyrusOne.
• Other hyperscale, AI, or mission-critical data-center environments.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of standard power and cooling calculations used to determine data-center capacity requirements, including TIA-942 and ASHRAE principles.
• Understanding of power redundancy and its implementation in facility design, including 2N and N+1 distributed-redundant configurations.
• Understanding of cooling redundancy and concurrent maintainability, including N+1 and N+2 configurations.
• Electrical and/or mechanical infrastructure experience with systems such as:
• Generators.
• Chillers.
• Cooling towers.
• Air-handling units.
• UPS systems.
• Electrical sub-distribution systems.
• Pumps, controls, and associated facility equipment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience working with GPU servers and high-density AI infrastructure, including H100, B200, or GB200 systems.
• Diploma, degree, or professional certification in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, facilities engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with liquid-cooling systems or other high-density cooling architectures.
• Strong agility and ability to prioritize work in a complex, fast-paced environment with high ambiguity.
• Vendor, project, or program-engagement experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with attention to clarity and detail.
• Ability to work fully onsite at the River Bend, LA data-center location.

Required Skills

• Critical-facilities, building-engineering, or data-center operations experience.
• Experience supporting electrical and mechanical infrastructure in live environments.
• Strong understanding of cooling systems.
• Ability to respond to infrastructure incidents and coordinate with technical SMEs.
• Strong communication, documentation, and vendor-management skills.
• Knowledge of standard power and cooling calculations used to determine data-center capacity requirements, including TIA-942 and ASHRAE principles.
• Understanding of power redundancy and its implementation in facility design, including 2N and N+1 distributed-redundant configurations.
• Understanding of cooling redundancy and concurrent maintainability, including N+1 and N+2 configurations.
• Electrical and/or mechanical infrastructure experience with systems such as generators, chillers, cooling towers, air-handling units, UPS systems, electrical sub-distribution systems, pumps, controls, and associated facility equipment.

Preferred Skills

• Liquid-cooling experience.
• Supervision or coordination of data-hall buildouts, including IT-services coordination, power planning, and cooling planning.
• Experience supporting active