Facilities Operator

Pinnacle

River Bend, LA

$120,000–$180,000 Per Year

1 day ago

Job Description

Job Description:

Facilities Operator

Overview:

Serve as a facilities and critical-infrastructure resource onsite.
Support power, cooling, resiliency, and building readiness across the data center.
Help maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure for high-density AI workloads.

Focus Areas:

Power and electrical infrastructure.
Cooling and mechanical systems.
Facility resiliency and redundancy.
Building and data-center readiness.
Critical infrastructure maintenance and incident response.

Must-Have Qualifications:

Critical-facilities, building-engineering, or data-center operations experience.
Experience supporting electrical and mechanical infrastructure in live environments.
Strong understanding of cooling systems; liquid-cooling experience is highly valued.
Ability to respond to infrastructure incidents and coordinate with technical SMEs.
Strong communication, documentation, and vendor-management skills.

Relevant Backgrounds
Candidates may come from:

Equinix.
Colocation providers.
Switch.
CyrusOne.
Other hyperscale, AI, or mission-critical data-center environments.

About the Team:

The Data Center Operations team supports Client’s rapid growth by deploying and operating hyperscale data centers.
The team takes full onsite responsibility for each facility and manages the end-to-end lifecycle of the hardware fleet and supporting infrastructure.
This includes delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions and services across active data-center environments.

About the Role:

Client is seeking Facilities Operators with strong technical infrastructure backgrounds who are passionate about engineering excellence and developing effective, sustainable solutions.
Candidates should understand the challenges associated with deploying infrastructure at scale and have experience supporting systems that meet high standards for performance, availability, security, resiliency, and cost.
The work performed in this role will help shape operational processes and infrastructure standards across the broader organization.

Responsibilities:

Support Data Center Operations teams as a facilities and critical-infrastructure resource.
Serve as a subject-matter resource for data-center critical infrastructure and facilities within the white space.
Understand and manage facility design limitations, capacity constraints, and operational risks.
Regularly audit and review infrastructure posture, maintenance programs, and service effectiveness.
Collaborate with Client’s colocation partners, service providers, vendors, and internal teams.
Manage and support the change-management process for high-risk maintenance activities.
Respond to incidents as an onsite first responder while coordinating with data-center engineering and infrastructure SMEs.
Support power, cooling, mechanical, and facility-readiness initiatives.
Maintain positive and collaborative working relationships with customers, partner teams, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Support construction, commissioning, maintenance, and operational-readiness activities.
Identify process improvements that increase facility reliability, safety, and operational consistency.

Minimum Qualifications:

Knowledge of standard power and cooling calculations used to determine data-center capacity requirements, including TIA-942 and ASHRAE principles.
Understanding of power redundancy and its implementation in facility design, including 2N and N+1 distributed-redundant configurations.
Understanding of cooling redundancy and concurrent maintainability, including N+1 and N+2 configurations.

Electrical and/or mechanical infrastructure experience with systems such as:

Generators.
Chillers.
Cooling towers.
Air-handling units.
UPS systems.
Electrical sub-distribution systems.
Pumps, controls, and associated facility equipment.

Preferred Experience:

Supervision or coordination of data-hall buildouts, including IT-services coordination, power planning, and cooling planning.
Experience supporting active construction and operational data-center environments.
Experience influencing or coordinating testing and commissioning teams through L1–L5 commissioning activities.
Ability to validate system design intent and help resolve technical issues during commissioning.
Experience supporting maintenance, operations, and infrastructure readiness for live facilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

Direct experience working with GPU servers and high-density AI infrastructure, including H100, B200, or GB200 systems.
Diploma, degree, or professional certification in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, facilities engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience with liquid-cooling systems or other high-density cooling architectures.
Strong agility and ability to prioritize work in a complex, fast-paced environment with high ambiguity.
Vendor, project, or program-engagement experience.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with attention to clarity and detail.
Ability to work fully onsite at the River Bend, LA data-center location.
Salary and Benefits
Competitive total compensation package, including salary and equity.
Retirement or pension plan in line with local norms.
Generous PTO policy in line with local norms.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Note:

Department: Data Center Operations
Location: River Bend, LA
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Number of Openings: 20
Salary: $120-180K + equity

Pay Range: $XXX - $XXX

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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Numbers & Facts

Location	River Bend, LA
Salary	$120,000–$180,000 Per Year

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)unmatched
Collocationunmatched
Commissioningunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Construction Supportunmatched
Customer Relationsunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
Data Managementunmatched
Dental Insuranceunmatched
Detail Orientedunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Electrical Engineeringunmatched
Electricityunmatched
Establish Prioritiesunmatched
Facilities Engineeringunmatched
Facilities Managementunmatched
GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)unmatched
Hardware Administrationunmatched
Incident Responseunmatched
Maintenance Servicesunmatched
Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
Network Operations Centerunmatched
Operational Supportunmatched
Operations Processesunmatched
Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Process Developmentunmatched
Process Improvementunmatched
Program Evaluationunmatched
Pumpsunmatched
Retirement Planunmatched
Riskunmatched
System Validationunmatched
Team Playerunmatched
Technical Supportunmatched
Vehicle Fleetsunmatched
Vision Planunmatched
Writing Skillsunmatched

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