Facilities Manager
Company: Orion Talent
Job Ref: # 2148954
Date Posted: 10/20/2026 12:00:00 AM
City, State: Reno, NV
Salary: $140,000 - $180,000
Description
Go to end ⇓- Minimum of 7 years of hands-on data center operations experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience supervising or leading technical teams
- Strong working knowledge of mission-critical mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems
- Experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting critical data center infrastructure
- Strong technical knowledge of electrical switchgear, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems, generators, and Power Distribution Units (PDUs)
- Strong technical knowledge of data center cooling systems, including chillers, Computer Room Air Handlers (CRAH), and Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units
- Working knowledge of facility control systems and critical infrastructure monitoring
- Experience utilizing Building Management Systems (BMS) to monitor facility performance, identify alarms, and coordinate corrective actions
- Experience utilizing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) to manage maintenance activities and equipment records
- Experience developing, implementing, and managing preventive maintenance programs for mission-critical equipment
- Ability to oversee corrective maintenance, equipment repairs, and infrastructure reliability initiatives
- Experience maintaining high-availability data center operations and minimizing unplanned downtime
- Ability to supervise, coach, train, and develop Operations Engineers or comparable technical personnel
- Experience conducting employee performance reviews, establishing performance goals, and identifying technical training needs
- Strong technical leadership and team-management skills
- Experience coordinating and managing contractors, vendors, and third-party service providers
- Ability to enforce contractor performance, quality, and safety standards
- Experience responding to critical infrastructure alarms, equipment failures, outages, and facility emergencies
- Ability to lead incident response, coordinate recovery activities, and restore critical operations
- Experience conducting root cause investigations and documenting corrective actions following equipment failures or operational incidents
- Ability to develop, maintain, and enforce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Experience maintaining equipment records, engineering drawings, maintenance documentation, and compliance logs
- Knowledge of OSHA, EPA, NFPA, and applicable local, state, and federal regulatory requirements
- Ability to maintain safe working conditions and ensure compliance with applicable facility operating standards
- Experience supporting data center capacity planning, infrastructure upgrades, and operational improvements
- Ability to collaborate with Engineering, Operations, and Security departments
- Experience supporting construction, retrofit, or facility improvement projects
- Ability to review technical designs, coordinate project schedules, and support commissioning activities
- Experience developing and managing facility operating budgets
- Ability to support capital planning and infrastructure investment decisions
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to make sound operational decisions in a mission-critical environment
- Strong organizational, planning, and time-management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers, technical personnel, vendors, contractors, and senior leadership
- Ability to balance hands-on technical responsibilities with facility management and leadership duties
- Ability to work onsite in the Reno, NV area
- Experience supporting high-density data center environments
- Liquid cooling system experience
- Experience with liquid-cooled data center infrastructure supporting AI or HPC applications
- High-performance computing infrastructure experience
- Experience supporting colocation data center operations
- Experience managing data center facilities during periods of rapid expansion
- Experience with advanced data center cooling technologies
- Experience supporting infrastructure capacity expansion projects
- Experience with data center construction and retrofit projects
- Data center commissioning experience
- Experience improving data center energy efficiency and cooling performance
- Experience developing capital improvement plans for mission-critical facilities
- Experience leading small, highly technical operations teams
- Experience working directly with senior operations leadership
- Military mechanical, electrical, or power generation experience combined with subsequent data center operations experience
- Navy Nuclear technical experience with follow-on data center operations experience
- Navy Electrician's Mate (EM) experience with follow-on data center operations experience
- Navy Machinist's Mate (MM) experience with follow-on data center operations experience
- Air Force Electrical Systems experience with follow-on data center operations experience
- Military experience maintaining mission-critical electrical, mechanical, or cooling infrastructure, combined with civilian data center experience




















