Site Critical Facilities Manager

At Verda, we're building a full-stack AI cloud, covering everything from data centers and hardware to our own cloud platform that the world's leading AI teams use to do serious AI work.

We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco.

Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

Why Verda

• Cash and equity compensation along with local benefits.

• 40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

• A real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Location: Verda's data center site in Kymenlaakso Region, Finland | Relocation support available

• Employment: Full time, Permanent

• Work model: On site

About the role

As Site Critical Facilities Manager, you'll be Verda's representative for the physical site and the single person accountable for how it is run: power, cooling and everything that keeps it available. Day to day, you'll manage our outsourced facilities vendor, keep maintenance and change work safe and well planned, and lead the response when something goes wrong with power or cooling.

The site is growing and you'll own the facilities side of that buildout. You'll set up the asset register, the maintenance plans and the vendor rhythm that a site this size needs, and make sure each capacity step is ready to run when it is handed over from the deployment team.

Your responsibilities

• Facilities vendor governance: Be the single accountable owner of our outsourced facilities contract. Manage vendor performance through SLAs, KPIs and regular reviews, and validate invoices.

• Maintenance and change control: Approve maintenance plans, method statements and change windows, so work on live power and cooling is planned and safe.

• Safety and authorised person duties: Act as the authorised person for permit-to-work and isolations, and keep the site compliant with its permits and regulations.

• Incident response: Lead the response to power and cooling events, share the facilities on-call rota with the Critical Facilities Engineers, and escalate site-level facilities risks and vendor issues to the DC Operations Manager.

• Asset and lifecycle management: Own the asset register, asset lifecycle and capex planning for the site.

• Energy and efficiency: Own energy and PUE reporting, and drive improvements.

• Buildout: Own the facilities side of the expansion, from handover readiness to maintenance setup for each new capacity step.

Your key competencies

• Hands-on experience running critical facilities (electrical, mechanical and cooling systems) in a live data center or comparable mission-critical environment

• Experience managing outsourced facilities or maintenance vendors against SLAs and KPIs, with commercial and escalation discipline

• Experience leading the response to power and cooling incidents, including root cause analysis

• Electrical safety competence and experience as an authorised person for permit-to-work and isolations

• Experience planning maintenance, change windows and lifecycle or capex budgets for critical infrastructure

• A strong safety mindset and a structured, documentation-minded way of working

• Professional working proficiency in English

• Willingness to work fully on site

Nice to have

• Finnish language skills

• Experience with a buildout, expansion or commissioning of a new or owned facility

• Experience with high-density AI/GPU environments and liquid cooling

• Experience with energy and PUE reporting

• A technical degree (e.g. electrical or mechanical engineering) or equivalent experience

• Relevant Finnish electrical qualifications, and certifications such as Uptime Institute, CDCP/CDFOM, NEBOSH/IOSH, first aid, or the Finnish occupational safety card

What's next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.

Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don't accept applications sent by email.