As Facilities Operations Manager – Electrical, you will lead the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of mission-critical electrical systems supporting OCI data centers. Reporting to the Senior Critical Facilities Manager this role owns electrical plant operations, maintenance execution, vendor performance, technician leadership, operational readiness, and incident response to ensure continuous uptime and protection of compute load.
This fulltime position is onsite at Project Frontier located in Abilene, Texas
You will oversee the operation and maintenance of systems such as switchgear, UPS, batteries, generators, transfer switches, PDUs, busway, grounding, and related monitoring platforms. This role is centered on day-to-day plant operations and field execution rather than primary design authority.
Internal Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Own electrical plant readiness, including preventive maintenance, testing, repairs, corrective work, outage coordination, and maintenance backlog management.
Manage Facilities Technicians, contractors, and service vendors, ensuring safety, quality, procedural discipline, and SLA performance.
Oversee troubleshooting and restoration for electrical faults, equipment degradation, abnormal conditions, and operational incidents.
Track and improve KPIs such as equipment availability, backlog health, incident trends, MTTR, maintenance completion, and corrective action closure.
Partner with engineering, commissioning, deployment, reliability, and site leadership teams on upgrades, lifecycle replacements, new capacity turn-up, and system handoff.
Lead or support root cause analysis for electrical events and ensure corrective actions are documented, implemented, verified, and sustained.
Maintain accurate, audit-ready records including procedures, service reports, one-lines, test results, and CMMS data.
Champion electrical safety, including NFPA 70E, LOTO, PPE, contractor compliance, and switching discipline.
Support the Site Operations Director with status reporting, operational risk visibility, staffing readiness, and improvement initiatives for the electrical plant.
5–8 years of experience in electrical maintenance, service execution, or plant operations in data centers or other mission-critical environments such as utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, telecom, or industrial facilities.
Strong knowledge of switchgear, UPS systems, batteries, generators, transfer equipment, PDUs, grounding, and power distribution systems.
Experience managing maintenance programs, outages, vendor execution, and incident response in live operational environments.
Preferred Skills / Certifications
