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Data Center Program Manager

Greater Omaha Area, US - Information Services, Internet

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.



Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.



As a highly motivated Program Manager you will have demonstrated experience in the area of complex, multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed datacenter design, development, construction and commissioning projects. You will provide project management of large-scale datacenters, computer farms, networking, AC power distribution/conversion and cooling methods at multiple scales. This role manages complex schedules, budgets, and broad inter-dependencies. You will have extensive experience managing large scale technical projects in a rapidly changing industry, be able to tolerate ambiguity and demonstrate problem solving leadership with limited oversight.



Responsibilities

• Manage multiple simultaneous datacenter projects from inception through completion.


• Support special R&D experiments, renovations and upgrades of existing facility.


• Gather internal requirements and deliver solutions that satisfy customers' needs.


• Maintain end-to-end responsibility from construction to deployment.


• Demonstrate superior performance in resolving highly critical issues within matrix organization while maintaining rigorous adherence to project timelines and costs.


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  Minimum qualifications
  


• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 4 years of relevant work experience managing complex, multi-group, multi-disciplinary projects.


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  Preferred qualifications
  


• MS in Electrical Enginering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Construction Management or related technical field.


• 6 years of relevant work experience with datacenter equipment/environments, including switch gears, generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, controls, security monitoring systems, fire safety systems and working understanding of start up/commissioning processes.


• Experience managing vendor relationships and understanding of standard practices in the design and construction industry, including knowledge of fast track design build processes and associated documents and contracts.


• Demonstrated skills in requirements gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling and achieving objectives on schedule within budget.


• Knowledge of large scale facility electrical and mechanical systems.


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  Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We're always on call to keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
  
  
  
  Council Bluffs
  
  
  
  Google is very happy to be located in Council Bluffs, IA. We announced our plans to build a data center here in early 2007, and today we are a fully operational site that has already begun benefitting our users around the world. We have had an excellent experience in Council Bluffs as we've built out this $600 million investment, and we look forward to being a part of the Iowa community for many years to come.
  
  
  
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  Lay the foundation for innovation, collaboration and building a better web.
  
  
  
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