Sr. Critical Facilities Manager

Oracle•Abilene, TX

23h•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Critical Facilities Manager leads onsite facilities operations at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Frontier hyperscale data center in Shackelford County, Texas. This full-time, onsite leadership role is accountable for the safety, availability, reliability, resilience, and readiness of critical infrastructure and the teams supporting it. The position combines technical leadership in critical facilities with people management, operational judgment, and program and project management. It is a manager-of-managers role that builds capable leadership teams and establishes consistent execution across facilities. Relocation assistance is provided. The manager establishes a proactive safety culture for employees, contractors, and service providers, ensuring that hazards are identified, procedures and controls are followed, and unsafe work can be stopped. The role oversees MEP infrastructure—including power distribution, backup generation, UPS systems, cooling, building controls, and life-safety systems—and leads 24/7 facilities operations, maintenance, change management, incident response, and emergency preparedness. The role also develops facilities operations managers and teams; leads programs and projects that improve safety, reliability, maintenance, and infrastructure lifecycle performance; manages budgets, vendors, resources, and critical spare-parts strategies; and maintains compliance, accurate records, and audit readiness. The work environment is onsite in a mission-critical data center and requires regular attendance, responsiveness, process discipline, and schedule flexibility to support site priorities and operational events.

Requirements

6–10 years of experience in site administration, facilities coordination, office operations, operations support, workplace services, or related business support roles in operational environments.
2–4+ years of experience leading coordinators, administrators, or site-support staff.
Strong people leadership, including the ability to coach, organize, and develop support staff.
Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail and process accuracy.
Strong communication and coordination across operational, administrative, and leadership stakeholders.
Ability to prioritize competing requests and maintain structure in a fast-paced environment.
Strong process discipline and commitment to maintaining accurate, audit-ready records.
Service-oriented mindset, professionalism, follow-through, and responsiveness.
Ability to improve workflows and reinforce execution standards across a growing support function.
Ability to frequently walk, stand, sit, and move through office and operational areas, and occasionally climb stairs or perform light physical administrative tasks, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Willingness and ability to provide schedule flexibility to support site priorities, operational events, and business needs.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting facilities, industrial, logistics, healthcare, construction, manufacturing, data center, or other mission-critical or operationally intensive environments.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Facilities, Administration, or a related field; equivalent experience is also valued.
Experience with CMMS, ServiceNow, document-control systems, maintenance-workflow tools, or related operations-support platforms.
Familiarity with facilities operations, maintenance coordination, vendor support, scheduling support, or site-administration practices.
Experience maintaining audit-ready records and administrative controls in regulated or high-accountability environments.
Experience supporting planning forums, work coordination, outage support, maintenance reviews, or site business operations.
Advanced Microsoft Office or similar business-systems proficiency.
Exposure to data center or other 24/7 critical operations environments.

Responsibilities

Lead a proactive safety culture across employees, contractors, and service providers, reinforcing stop-work authority and accountability.
Ensure work has appropriate risk assessments, approved procedures, required qualifications, and effective controls, including electrical safety, hazardous-energy isolation, and contractor safety practices.
Review incidents, near misses, and safety observations; ensure corrective actions address underlying causes and lessons are applied across the organization.
Own the operational availability and reliability of MEP infrastructure, including power distribution, backup generation, UPS systems, cooling, building controls, and associated life-safety systems.
Lead 24/7 facilities operations, including staffing, shift coverage, operating procedures, maintenance planning, and emergency preparedness.
Ensure preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance is completed safely, effectively, and on schedule, and manage maintenance backlogs and equipment deficiencies.
Provide technical leadership for complex equipment issues, system performance concerns, and operational risk assessments.
Maintain disciplined change management and work execution, including standard operating procedures, maintenance procedures, emergency operating procedures, and contingency plans.
Lead facilities incident response and recovery, with timely escalation, clear communication, root-cause analysis, and sustained corrective action.
Lead, coach, and develop facilities operations managers, holding them accountable for safety, technical performance, team effectiveness, and employee development.
Build the staffing, skills, and leadership capacity required for current operations and future growth.
Establish goals and performance expectations, provide feedback, and address performance concerns consistently and promptly.
Develop succession plans, strengthen technical training and qualification programs, and create career-growth opportunities.
Foster trust, inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Lead programs that improve safety, reliability, maintenance effectiveness, operational consistency, and infrastructure lifecycle performance.
Oversee facilities projects, equipment replacements, and upgrades, managing scope, schedule, cost, quality, and operational risks.
Partner with engineering, construction, commissioning, and other stakeholders to transition new facilities and systems into operations with complete documentation, trained staff, and demonstrated readiness.
Manage operating budgets, resource plans, vendor performance, service agreements, and critical spare-parts strategies.
Use performance measures, inspections, and operational reviews to identify risks, prioritize investment, and verify improvement.
Maintain compliance with applicable requirements and Oracle standards, accurate records, and readiness for audits and inspections.