Critical Facility Systems Manager

Job Title

Critical Facility Systems Manager

Job Description Summary

The Critical Facility Systems Manager is responsible for the reliable efficient and high performance operation of a state of the art central chiller plant and associated facility infrastructure supporting comfort cooling advanced laboratories direct to chip cooling semiconductor research environments AI hardware development and office spaces. The plant includes centrifugal chillers cooling towers hydronic distribution systems industrial controls medium voltage electrical infrastructure and secondary process cooling loops supporting high density and liquid cooled research systems.

This role leads all aspects of plant operations building maintenance system optimization reliability engineering and vendor management. The manager directs a team of in house experts coordinates SME partners and oversees contractors to ensure maximum uptime energy efficiency and a safe well maintained facility environment.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

System Optimization & Performance Management

• Drive continuous optimization of chilled water production distribution and energy performance across all plant assets.
• Analyze system trends load profiles and operational data to improve efficiency stability and reliability.
• Optimize performance of secondary process glycol cooling loops including systems from nVent Vertiv Motivair CoolIT or equivalent OEMs.
• Implement performance strategies for laboratories directtochip cooling loops critical systems and AI hardware development environments.
• Enhance performance of industrial control systems BMS/EMS platforms and advanced monitoring tools.
• Maintain and refine SOPs MOPs EOPs and system documentation to support consistent highquality operations.

Operations & Maintenance Leadership Central Plant

• Oversee daily operations of the central plant to ensure high reliability safety and operational excellence.
• Manage preventive predictive and corrective maintenance programs for mechanical electrical controls and process cooling systems.
• Lead troubleshooting and rootcause analysis for mechanical electrical controls and glycol loop performance issues.
• Ensure compliance with all safety environmental and regulatory requirements.

Facility Operations & Building Maintenance

• Oversee building operations and maintenance for office areas laboratory support spaces and shared facility infrastructure.
• Ensure proper functioning of building systems including HVAC plumbing lighting lifesafety systems and general building services.
• Coordinate with lab managers researchers and office occupants to support facility needs and resolve operational issues.
• Manage space readiness occupant comfort and facility appearance standards across office and labadjacent areas.
• Support minor construction tenant improvements and facility modifications in collaboration with project teams.

Industrial Controls & Electrical Infrastructure

• Oversee operation and optimization of industrial control systems including PLCs BMS/EMS integrations and networked controls.
• Support operation and maintenance of mediumvoltage substations switchgear protective relays and distribution equipment feeding the plant and facility.
• Coordinate mechanical and electrical system performance to maintain redundancy stability and safe operating conditions.
• Support electrical safety programs arcflash studies and breaker coordination.

Team Leadership & SME Coordination

• Lead and develop a team of inhouse engineers operators and technicians.
• Assemble and coordinate subject matter experts in controls water treatment vibration analysis reliability engineering and system optimization.
• Foster a culture of safety technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Contractor & Vendor Management

• Manage service contracts for chillers controls water treatment electrical systems building maintenance and specialty services.
• Oversee vendor support for glycol cooling systems including maintenance fluid management filtration and leak detection.
• Develop scopes of work evaluate proposals and ensure contractor performance meets SLAs and operational standards.
• Maintain strong vendor relationships and enforce accountability.

Budgeting & Strategic Planning

• Develop and manage annual OPEX and CAPEX budgets for plant operations facility maintenance and longterm asset planning.
• Evaluate lifecycle costs energy performance and system upgrade opportunities.
• Lead initiatives related to sustainability energy reduction and advanced cooling technologies.
• Partner with R&D lab operations and AI hardware teams to support evolving cooling facility and reliability requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Facilities Engineering.
• 10 years of experience in central plant operations facility operations optimization or missioncritical mechanical/electrical systems.
• Expertise with centrifugal chillers hydronic systems cooling towers industrial controls and building systems.
• Handson experience with secondary process glycol cooling loops including systems from nVent Vertiv Motivair CoolIT or similar OEMs.
• Experience with mediumvoltage electrical systems substations and protective equipment.
• Background supporting laboratories semiconductor environments data centers or highdensity research facilities.
• Strong leadership communication and vendor management capabilities.
• Demonstrated success managing budgets contracts and technical teams.

Preferred Certifications

• OEM chiller training (Trane York Carrier Daikin).
• Electrical safety or MV distribution training (NFPA 70E NETA familiarity).

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health vision and dental insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and paid and unpaid time away from addition to a comprehensive benefits package Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire total hours worked job type business line and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement the geographic area in which the work will be performed market pay rates in that area and the candidates experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $ 153000.00 - $180000.00

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

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