Overview
As a Critical Environment Manager you will own and maintain the operational excellence of critical mechanical and electrical infrastructure within data center environments, ensuring service continuity, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement across safety, reliability, and efficiency.
We are seeking candidates with demonstrated experience in data center operations or other critical environment settings, including supporting mission-critical services and high-availability infrastructure. This experience may have been gained across a range of industries, including data centers, manufacturing, oil and gas, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or similar critical infrastructure sectors, or through an equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience.
You will work within a large-scale, technology-driven infrastructure environment, supporting the reliable operation of critical facilities and services. The role offers the opportunity to work alongside engineering, facilities, operational, and vendor teams while contributing to the ongoing improvement, resilience, and efficiency of critical infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily operations and maintenance of mechanical and electrical systems within a data center environment, ensuring the effective planning, coordination, and execution of preventative and corrective maintenance programs.
- Ensure uptime and reliability of critical environment systems through proactive monitoring, maintenance oversight, and risk mitigation.
- Lead operational excellence by executing and governing processes such as maintenance procedures, incident reviews and root cause analysis (RCA), and change management.
- Drive safety and compliance, ensuring adherence to required operational, safety, and industry standards, while immediately addressing identified risks or incidents.
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering teams, vendors, facilities partners, and other stakeholders to optimize data center performance and resolve issues.
- Identify and reduce operational risk, with a focus on minimizing human error and high-impact incidents.
- Support emergency response readiness, acting as an escalation point for facilities-related incidents.
- Deliver efficiency improvements by progressing cost optimization and energy-efficiency initiatives.
- Support data-driven operations through accurate measurement and reporting of key metrics, including power, temperature, and service-level performance.
Qualifications
- Relevant experience within a specialized technical area, such as mechanical, electrical, controls, facilities engineering, or a related field.
- A valid driver's licence is required, as travel between sites may form part of the role.
- This is an on-site position, and the location has limited public transport availability. Access to your own form of transport is therefore advised.
Background Check Requirements
The successful candidate will be required to meet applicable customer and/or government security screening and Background -check requirements associated with working in a critical infrastructure environment.