Data Center Site Project Manager Facebook
Fort Worth, TX

Job Description

Facebook is seeking an individual skilled across multiple disciplines to join the Site Operations Team. The person should enjoy working in a complex and highly technical environment where innovation, planning and communication is key to their success. This position is full-time and will be based in Fort Worth, Texas.

As a Site Project Manager required strengths include both Project Management as well as in-depth technical ability and knowledge of infrastructure, capacity planning and automation of large-scale server environments. Ability to manage multiple complex projects of highly technical nature, involving work and communication across teams and geographical locations. Knowledge of all the key deliverables from teams in an environment and leveraging this to identify opportunities for efficiency gains and innovation is a key factor to success in this role.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Lead Data Center specific projects that may span several functions or sites, coordinating work across these and ensuring on-time delivery of the project.



Establish initial overall plan of new Data Center projects, including defining the time schedule, scope, risk analysis and resource estimates.

Ensure alignment with centrally based Operation Program Managers and Technical Program Managers as well as Data Center-based PM roles on other teams to enable delivery of complex projects.

Handle communications of project progress to stakeholders, and define initial communication paths. Lead and define all local collaboration channels such as meetings, groups and reports.

Act as local escalation point for issues affecting the delivery of projects, and facilitate resolution of issues where support outside of the project team is required.

Act as conduit for feedback on existing and new processes deployed at the Data Centers.

Work as a coordination point for regional capacity related projects and coordinate with local resources.

Drive coordinated efforts that impact global timelines for retrofits, decoms, and new construction within the Site or wider region.

Manage day-to-day work within project directly where required, and act as support and coordinator for areas managed by other PM functions.

Act as mentor both at the site and for peers globally, and represent and temporarily lead work in the team if manager is absent.

Ability to travel up to 30% required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

* B.Eng./B.S. in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.



3+ years of technical project management experience, in a data center environment.

Experience working in a 24/7 critical operations.

Technical experience with knowledge in all of the following areas, with particular on at least two: Server hardware, Operating systems and provisioning, Physical and logical capacity planning, Data Center cooling and power, Asset management, Fiber and network technology, Data Center Construction.

Experience leading projects in a Data Center environment including areas such as Construction to Operations, Capacity planning, turn-ups and decommissioning and process and tooling innovation.

Project management experience in defining roadmaps, building and translating initiatives into projects.

Organizational and time management experience.

Experience prioritizing and working on multiple projects/tasks simultaneously.

Experience in communication, building relationships, consensus and removing roadblocks.

Experience communicating stakeholders across different teams and locations.

Experience getting the project moving until all has been identified and clarified.

Experience consuming information and separate the signal from the noise.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience in dealing with multiple projects, juggling different priorities and projects.



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