About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Reliability Engineering

The Reliability Engineering Department is responsible for the overall operational health of critical systems and Site Operations formalized standard processes. This responsibility includes evaluating and improving the reliability and performance of existing critical infrastructure, sustaining equipment operational availability through maintenance programming, and providing technical support to the Site Operations Teams, as well as providing systems reliability and maintainability feedback to the Design Engineering teams for future design considerations.

Position Overview

This role can be based in any of our US locations: Phoenix, AZ; Santa Clara, CA; or Ashburn, VA

The Senior Manager, Operations Site Deployment is responsible for leading a team to optimally facilitate the smooth transition of new Vantage data centers to the Site Operations teams. This collaboration effort and orchestration ensures Operational Readiness at Site Turnover from our partners in Construction. Requirements for this position include an understanding of data center facility operations, data center operating standard processes, and understanding of site critical systems. This position is highly multi-functional and collaborate with peer teams in Engineering, Construction, Business Operations, Site Operations. It will be critical for one to have an outward mindset in all areas of this transition and requires successful engagement at multiple levels of management throughout the company. This role requires strong organizational/interpersonal skills, effective communication, and team partnership.

Essential Job Functions

• A key executive presence, leader and mentor for the success of Site Deployment execution.

• Champions the engagement and collaboration of peers in Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Business Operations, and Site Operations teams to seamlessly transition new data centers to Site Operations.

• Champions and leads the recruitment, staffing, onboarding, and training of new Operations teams at greenfield sites, chipping in to the effective operational launch of these locations.

• Executive leadership and mentorship of Site Deployment Coordinators whereby creating programmatic success. Ongoing training and support of their operations protocols, procedures, and standards are in place for newly built facilities to achieve Operational Readiness.

• Manager of department to ensuring quality of Commissioning and Facility Acceptance necessary to deliver a technically sound facility to Site Operations.

• Manages , leads and directs a team of Site Deployment Coordinators, including scheduling work assignments, conducting performance evaluations, and providing training and support to team members.

• Encourages and cultivates a team-oriented environment through positive feedback.

• Maintain communication and collaborate with business partners and internal team members during all phases of a new data center build.

• Lead all aspects of schedules and facilitate cross team engagement keeping pace with Construction delivery dates.

• Ensure accurate, on-time completion of Ops Site Deployment quality control checklists and Site Start-Up processes.

• Compile Procedures (MOP, SOP, EOP Templates) for Site Start Up across all Sites in deployment and adapt MOP, SOP, EOP templates to Site Specifics.

• Ensure the readiness of Operations Support spaces including Tool shop, Critical Spares storage spaces.

• Ensure the site is safe to operate with Safety Protocols, Safety Equipment, a Signage in place.

• Ensure Billing System Readiness and multi-functional contributions are fully coordinated.

• Ensure Asset Management Systems are in place and Site Equipment is fully accounted for including Warranty and Spare Parts information.

• Ensure CMMS is fully populated with equipment data and maintenance scheduling plans.

• Ensure the Site Security Systems are fully deployed at Site Turnover.

• Ensure Site Operators are fully trained and ready to operate and maint