Job Title

Senior Facility Manager

Job Description Summary

This role is is responsible for the overall operation, reliability, and maintenance of data centre facilities. This role ensures continuous availability of critical infrastructure systems including power, cooling, fire protection, and building services, while maintaining compliance with safety, regulatory, and uptime requirements. The role leads facilities teams and vendors to deliver a safe, efficient, and resilient data centre environment.

Job Description

About the Role:  

Lead and manage all data centre facility operations, ensuring 24/7 availability of critical systems (power, cooling, HVAC, fire, BMS)

Develop and implement preventive and corrective maintenance programs to meet uptime and reliability targets

Manage facility-related vendors, service contracts, SLAs, and performance reviews

Ensure compliance with health & safety, regulatory requirements, and data centre standards (e.g. Tier, ISO)

Support capacity planning, upgrades, expansions, and facility-related projects in coordination with ICT and project teams

About You:

Extensive experience in facility management within data centres or other mission-critical environments

Strong technical knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and building systems

Proven leadership experience managing teams, contractors, and service providers

Strong understanding of uptime, redundancy, risk management, and incident response

Excellent communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

Being part of a growing global company;Career development and a promote from within culture;An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.

We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

 

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

 

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

 

 

 

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