Data Center Facilities Operations Manager - Electrical

Eligibility and Location Requirements

This position requires U.S. citizenship and is located onsite in Saline, Michigan. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracle's relocation policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operation, maintenance, and service execution for critical electrical infrastructure. 

• Own electrical plant readiness, including preventive maintenance, testing, repairs, corrective work, outage coordination, and maintenance backlog management. 

• Serve as the primary site point of contact and technical lead for electrical systems, including incident escalation and operational decision support. 

• Manage Facilities Technicians, contractors, and service vendors, ensuring safety, quality, procedural discipline, and SLA performance. 

• Oversee troubleshooting and restoration for electrical faults, equipment degradation, abnormal conditions, and operational incidents. 

• Drive rigorous execution of switching, maintenance coordination, and safe work practices in line with approved procedures and code requirements. 

• Track and improve KPIs such as equipment availability, backlog health, incident trends, MTTR, maintenance completion, and corrective action closure. 

• Partner with engineering, commissioning, deployment, reliability, and site leadership teams on upgrades, lifecycle replacements, new capacity turn-up, and system handoff. 

• Lead or support root cause analysis for electrical events and ensure corrective actions are documented, implemented, verified, and sustained. 

• Maintain accurate, audit-ready records including procedures, service reports, one-lines, test results, and CMMS data. 

• Champion electrical safety, including NFPA 70E, LOTO, PPE, contractor compliance, and switching discipline. 

• Coach and develop technicians and frontline leaders to reinforce safety, technical capability, and execution quality. 

• Support the Site Operations Director with status reporting, operational risk visibility, staffing readiness, and improvement initiatives for the electrical plant. 

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in electrical maintenance, service execution, or plant operations in data centers or other mission-critical environments such as utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, telecom, or industrial facilities. 

• 2–4+ years of experience leading technicians, service teams, or maintenance execution in live operational environments. 

• Strong knowledge of switchgear, UPS systems, batteries, generators, transfer equipment, PDUs, grounding, and power distribution systems. 

• Experience managing maintenance programs, outages, vendor execution, and incident response in live operational environments. 

• Familiarity with EPMS, SCADA, BMS, and CMMS tools. 

• Experience supporting commissioning, turnover, or acceptance of new electrical systems is preferred. 

Skills and Competencies

• Strong electrical safety leadership and operational judgment. 

• Ability to manage incidents calmly and communicate clearly under pressure. 

• Strong ownership mindset with disciplined follow-through on risk reduction and corrective actions. 

• High attention to detail in switching, procedures, documentation, and compliance execution. 

• Ability to lead technicians and contractors while reinforcing strong execution standards and field discipline. 

Preferred Skills / Certifications

• Experience with mission-critical power systems in high-availability environments. 

• Familiarity with predictive maintenance, electrical testing practices, switching procedures, and incident review processes. 

• Journeyman Electrician or Master Electrician license where applicable. 

• NFPA 70E training strongly preferred. 

• OSHA 30 preferred. 

• OEM or manufacturer training on UPS systems, switchgear, generators, breakers, or protective systems preferred. 

• NETA, NICET, or similar electrical testing / maintenance-related credentials are a plus where relevant to the role.