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Lead Critical Facilities Engineer

Cox
$108,800.00 - $181,400.00 / yr
parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays
United States, Georgia, Alpharetta
Jul 24, 2025
The Lead Critical Facilities Engineer leads and manages a team of vendors to operate and maintain the critical facility infrastructure within our critical facilities. The ideal candidate will possess experience in a data center or a similar critical facility, with strong technical and leadership skills.

Job Responsibilities

  • Lead the implementation of a Maintenance Management System for effective tracking and reporting.
  • Manage vendors performing maintenance in critical facilities to ensure safety, efficiency, and technical accuracy.
  • Drives creation of plans to test and validate functionality, management, and performance of existing and new technologies.
  • Assists in regulatory compliance inspections and preventative maintenance on critical equipment and properties.
  • Conducts moderate/complex equipment evaluations, selection, testing, and designs to ensure reliability and scaled expansion of critical facilities.
  • Facilitate Post-Incident and Root-Cause analysis to continuously improve operations.
  • Establishes Critical Facilities Engineering performance measurements and goals.
  • Evaluates and trends the performance of generators, battery backup systems, power plants, HVAC, life/safety, and building management systems.
  • Oversee risk management and system maintenance coordination for uninterrupted operations.
  • Develop and manage emergency operating procedures and standard operating procedures.
  • Tracks and resolves escalations.
  • Plans, documents, trends, and logs all parameters relating to space capacity, quality, AC/DC power, HVAC, building management systems, and support systems within critical facilities.
  • Proactively recommends process improvements to management.
  • Provide off-hours support for maintenance issues and system complications as required.
  • Share technical knowledge and skills with other team members to develop their capabilities.
  • Assist in annual budget preparation.


Qualifications

Minimum

  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years' experience in critical environment operations in a related field. 10 years' experience in critical environment operations.
  • Proven experience in managing teams and coordinating vendor activities to achieve project milestones.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver projects in a timely manner, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
  • Excellent interpersonal abilities and collaboration skills to engage with diverse stakeholder groups.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Outlook.
  • In-depth knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and control systems in critical environments is highly desirable.
  • Strong leadership, effective communication, problem-solving skills, and strategic decision-making abilities are essential.


Preferred

  • Electrical experience in critical facilities, including experience with UPS, generators, switchgear, and transfer switches.


USD 108,800.00 - 181,400.00 per year

Compensation:

Compensation includes a base salary of $108,800.00 - $181,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Benefits:

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
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