Critical Facility Lead - AI Data Center

Our client is a fast-growing hyperscale Data Center Operator building infrastructure to support top AI labs and enterprises.

DataCenter Critical Facility Lead

What this role does:

Senior-most onsite owner of power, cooling, and critical infrastructure (including liquid cooling). This person owns escalations, risk, and uptime across the facility

What they’ll own:

• Escalation point for all facility-related incidents (power, cooling, building systems)
• Change management for high-risk maintenance
• Incident response coordination with engineering SMEs
• Oversight of colo partners and maintenance quality
• Commissioning support (L1–L5) and ongoing reliability initiatives

Must-have background:

• Deep experience with generators, UPS, chillers, cooling systems, electrical distribution
• Strong understanding of redundancy models (2N, N+1, N+2, concurrent maintainability)
• Power/cooling capacity planning (TIA-942, ASHRAE)
• GPU datacenter exposure (H100, B200, GB200)

Nice to have:

• Electrical/Mechanical certifications
• Experience working directly with colos and vendors
• Experience with data hall build-outs + commissioning influcence

Salary & Benefits

• $150-200k base salary + six figure equity grant
• GREAT health insurance + 401k match
• Relocation Assistance