Data Centre Manager
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Our client are a rapidly growing company within the data centre industry, specialising in providing highly resilient and energy efficient data centre services, supporting business critical IT applications for high profile customers, from five state-of-the-art datacentre facilities in the South East of England. Due to a restructure, an excellent opportunity has risen for Data Centre Manager to join one of our clients largest sites.
As Data Centre Manager, you will have full responsibility for all staff and activities on-site, including Facilities Maintenance, Security, Compliance and Customer Operations.
Specifically, you will:
*Provide mentoring and leadership to all the staff within your facility, fostering a culture of passion and commitment for reliability and customer service. Enable your team members to achieve their objectives, and facilitate collaboration with other departments across the business,
*Attract, develop, motivate and retain talent at your datacentre and across the business by playing a key role in recruitment, facilitating internal and external training, staff engagement activities, performance management and coaching.
*Manage all change within the facility: planned, unplanned and as part of wider projects. Work with all relevant staff and departments to accurately forecast resources required, and understand and communicate any potential impact to service or project delivery timescales.
*Be responsible for managing Health and Safety within a complex technical environment, including working with FM to manage the Permit to Work system for your facility, including permits for Live Working where required, reviewing Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS), and enforcing Electrical Safe Systems of Work.
*Work closely with Facilities Management to ensure all technical documentation relating to your facility is complete and up to date, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs), with a focus on accuracy, clarity and continual improvements. Ensure your facility and all related activities meet the necessary statutory requirements. Actively mitigate the risk of human error in all activities.
*Manage a substantial budget, and have financial control of all expenditure for your facilities through our ERP system. Undertake regular business planning reviews jointly with the Finance Department and other functions to set budget levels, including representation to Board level for funding requests.
*Ensure all service partners and specialist sub contactors/vendors adhere to strict service guidelines, and maintain the Service Level Agreement metrics required to support your facilities and our customers. Work with our central procurement team as required to ensure we get the very best from all our vendors.
*Monitor and manage our ISO Management Systems as they relate to your facility, including Quality Management (ISO 9001), environmental sustainability (ISO 14001) and Information Security (ISO 27001). Ensure continuous improvement against the standards and represent your facility at any relevant internal and external audits.
Required Experience:
*You will have multiple years of extensive management experience in operating complex Datacentre facilities across all disciplines, ideally with specific relevant qualifications.
*You will have demonstrated an ability to work to short, medium and long-term deadlines, as well as being able to react quickly and change priorities to meet business and customer demands.
*Ability to effectively work within a large/matrix organisation and utilise excellent communication skills to engage with personnel at all levels.
*A good knowledge of regulatory compliance, health and safety, and data security within a datacentre and environment.
Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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