Manager, Facilities Engineer
Fleet Data Centers
$120,000 - $140,000 / year
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Description
Overview
Fleet Data Centers designs, builds and operates mega-scale data center campuses. Fleet provides its customers flexibility and predictability to meet their upside demand forecasts, addressing a key need in the market as traditional leased models are struggling to keep pace with the demand for new Cloud and AI infrastructure. Fleet is led by a team of industry veterans that have already made a lasting imprint on the evolution of global digital infrastructure and are committed and uniquely capable of upleveling data center development scale and operations in the face of rising demand. Fleet is well positioned to bring in-house design, engineering and operational capabilities to collaborate with customers on tailored solutions for campuses of 500MW+. This unique model enables Fleet to provide the world’s largest and most sophisticated customers a seamless extension of their own data center fleets with constant access to design innovation.
Position Overview
The Manager, Facilities Engineering is responsible for technical governance, standards deployment, and engineering support across the operational lifecycle of Fleet’s critical facilities. This leader helps ensure sites are technically ready for operations, maintained to Fleet standards, and continuously improved through field learning and disciplined engineering review. The role partners closely with Construction, Commissioning, Site Operations, Critical Systems, and vendors to ensure design intent becomes field-ready, operable, and maintainable infrastructure.
Job Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key areas:
- Engineering Standards & Technical Governance
- Help Fleet deliver near-perfect execution across safety, security, and availability by driving clear engineering standards and field-ready technical governance.
- Support Fleet’s facilities engineering programs across commissioning, startup readiness, turnover, maintenance governance, and operational technical standards.
- Develop and maintain engineering requirements, procedures, checklists, and acceptance criteria for critical infrastructure systems.
- Technical Support & Operational Readiness
- Partner with site teams on technical troubleshooting, recurring issue elimination, maintainability improvements, and field feedback incorporation.
- Support post-construction acceptance and operational readiness reviews, including documentation quality, operability, maintainability, alarm strategy, and training requirements.
- Standards & Maintenance Management
- Help manage standards lifecycle activities including drafting, technical review, revision control, publication, and change communication.
- Review maintenance strategies, preventive maintenance requirements, and engineering justifications for deviations, deferrals, or major corrective scopes.
- Infrastructure & Engineering Performance
- Support major infrastructure replacement projects and other operational capital work outside core construction scope.
- Develop technical dashboards, reports, and analyses that inform quality, readiness, and engineering performance.
- Serve as a strong cross-functional partner between operations and engineering functions to ensure practical, field-executable outcomes.
Required Traits, Expertise and Skills
Education & Experience
- Seven or more years of experience in data center engineering, critical facilities engineering, commissioning, or mission-critical operations.
- Experience translating engineering requirements into field procedures, maintenance strategies, and operational standards.
Technical / Functional Expertise
- Strong technical knowledge of power distribution, UPS, generators, switchgear, cooling systems, controls, and monitoring systems.
- Strong documentation and technical review discipline.
- Ability to work effectively across construction, commissioning, operations, and vendor organizations.
Core Skills & Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a bias toward practical field execution.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Location: Denver, Reno, Virginia, Austin
Travel Requirement: Willingness and ability to travel to Fleet sites as needed.
Expected Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000 Base Salary + Discretionary Bonus
Fleet Data Centers Employment
Fleet Data Centers employees enjoy competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, standard paid holidays, and unlimited PTO.
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties to meet the organization's ongoing needs.
Fleet Data Centers is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance applying for any of our open positions, please contact us at info@fleetdatacenters.com
Benefits
- health insurance
- vision insurance
- 401(k)
- paid time off
- bonus
About this role
Fleet Data Centers is building mega-scale data center campuses for the world's largest cloud and AI infrastructure customers, and this role sits at the center of translating engineering design into reliable, maintainable operations. As Manager of Facilities Engineering, you would own technical governance and standards deployment across the operational lifecycle of critical facilities—ensuring sites meet Fleet's standards, troubleshoot recurring issues, and continuously improve through field learning. You'd work closely with construction, commissioning, operations, and vendors to bridge the gap between design intent and what actually works in the field.
The position calls for seven or more years in data center or critical facilities engineering, with proven ability to turn engineering requirements into practical field procedures and maintenance strategies. You need strong technical grounding in power distribution, UPS, generators, cooling systems, controls, and monitoring, paired with sharp documentation discipline and cross-functional collaboration skills. The work involves developing standards and checklists, supporting operational readiness reviews, managing maintenance strategies, and building technical dashboards that track quality and performance.
Based in Alexandria, Virginia with travel to Fleet sites as needed, this is a full-time in-office role offering $120,000–$140,000 base salary plus discretionary bonus, with fully employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K, paid holidays, and unlimited PTO.
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