Data Center Engineering Support Manager

Data Center Engineering Support Manager
Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

Joining our operations team means that you will be at the forefront of all we do, and leading the process in this position will give you the opportunity to not only help drive success in our Data Centre's but also develop the team around you. We are looking some who can develop people and be doing so improve their personal and professional development.

The Manager will be encouraged to help generate a culture of staff wellbeing, engineering agility and excellence whilst ensuring out customers' demands are always met. Key to success will also be to build, mend and/or harness existing and new relationships with vendors and cross-functional departments.

Job Summary:
The Engineering Support Manager for the Australian Operations team is the enabler for the Engineering team; ensuring our assets, contracts, vendor and risk management activities are developed, maintained and coordinated. They will become an integral part of the overall Operations team and our 18 IBX (Data Centers), collaborating and leading both internal and external stakeholders.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leads supervisors and professional individual contributors. Guides through well-defined management precedents.
- Develops teams to work safely, optimally and with high regard to human error avoidance.
- Asset management including Maximo support.
- Job Plan assessment and support.
- Contracts and Procurement Support.
- Vendor Management, ensure Equinix specific Job Plans, KPI's and SLA's are achieved.
- Risk Management, including administrative support of ARC and provide input toward budget and priority setting.
- Provide Leadership and strategic advice, administrative and operational processes and guide execution.
- Supporting Engineering Drills, Compliance and Reporting requirements.
- Handle personnel details including salaries, positioning, performance reviews as well as coaching and development.

Project / Infrastructure Site Management
- Plans, coordinates, reviews budgets, and implements resources to complete projects and maintenance within the data centers.
- Provides input and mentorship towards budgets.
- Overall site capacity management.
- Translates functional plans into operations excellence and guidance throughout execution.

Vendor Management
- Oversees contractor work and operations to ensure completion to Equinix's global, local and uniform standards.

Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of related or equivalent work experience in Critical Facilities environment
- Ability to collaborate with and supervise a small, experienced and specialist team.
- Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in relevant field
- Salary package including company shares, annual bonus, healthcare allowance and access to a host of financial, legal and consultancy perks.
- Staff gym, onsite parking, close to transport links
- Progression opportunities with the Facilities or wider teams within Equinix

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.