Data Centre IFM Technical Manager

Peterborough Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

You will lead on-site IFM and engineering operations at a data centre, ensuring safe, compliant and resilient plant performance. You’ll manage local teams and partners, implement governance, and maintain critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure. You’ll drive maintenance, incident response and continuous improvement, contributing to uptime and client confidence. This role offers hands-on leadership in a high‑availability environment and the chance to shape estate-wide standards at the site level.

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day IFM and engineering operations at the data centre, applying governance and standards
Control local HV/LV electrical systems, mechanical infrastructure, UPS, standby generation, cooling, BMS, EPMS, fire systems through teams and partners
Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, client standards and company procedures
Plan and verify preventive, predictive, condition-based and corrective maintenance; manage defects and risks
Exercise stop-work authority for unacceptable risk and escalate issues promptly
Maintain operational readiness to support critical services and agreed availability
Manage change planning, outages, dependencies and readiness
Lead initial incident response, stabilize operations and provide updates to stakeholders
Support root cause analysis and implement corrective/preventive actions
Maintain site emergency response and business continuity arrangements
Maintain regulatory compliance and control permits, risk assessments and safe work
Ensure personnel and contractors hold required competencies and authorisations
Perform site inspections, audits, and close findings timely
Maintain asset, performance and compliance records; evidence and dashboards
Coordinate asset lifecycle and technology management; use CAFM, BMS and EPMS for monitoring
Coordinate soft services delivery (cleaning, waste, reception, landscape, workplace support)
Control site budgets and supplier performance; ensure safety and engineering integrity in KPIs
Act as principal IFM contact for client representatives; provide clear performance and incident reporting
Provide leadership and development for the on-site IFM team; maintain competence and coverage
Foster culture of safety, discipline, accountability and continuous improvement

Key requirements

Substantial operational experience in data centres or high-availability facilities
Practical knowledge of critical electrical and mechanical systems, maintenance delivery, permit-to-work and change control
Experience supervising multidisciplinary engineering teams and contractors
Experience supporting audits, compliance inspections and incident investigations
Knowledge of incident response and escalation processes
Experience with safety, risk assessment and reporting in critical environments
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Authorised Persons experience or equivalent site authorisation desirable
Professional registration or active progression desirable
On-call or escalation flexibility and ability to work across multiple sites
Experience in using performance and asset data to drive decisions