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Chief Engineer Operations H/F
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
On-site · Paris, France
Experience
3 years
Job description
A Chief Engineer role providing cross-site technical leadership for data centre critical infrastructure operations in France, securing operations and standardising practices.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- On-site · Paris, France
- Languages
- French – fluent
What you'll do
- Act as the multi-site technical and operational reference point
- Provide expertise on all technical data centre infrastructure and its interactions
- Challenge operating procedures (MOP) and check coherence and completeness of procedures
- Identify risks and their potential impacts and secure operations before execution
- Issue a NO GO when an operation lacks the necessary guarantees
- Structure operating processes and harmonise technical standards
- Draft and improve procedures and operating modes
- Identify gaps between sites and track improvement plans
- Analyse complex incidents and support corrective action definition
- Train and coach teams and support change management
- Act as technical contact for major clients and explain complex incidents
What we're looking for
- Significant experience in a data centre or highly structured critical infrastructure environment
- Excellent knowledge of HV/LV electrical infrastructure
- Knowledge of electrical backup systems, UPS and generators
- Knowledge of HVAC, cooling and fire protection systems
- Knowledge of control-command systems
- Ability to understand the whole infrastructure and interactions between systems
- Comfortable with MOPs, change management, risk analysis and critical incident management
- Experience with preventive and corrective maintenance, audits and operational controls
- Experience managing technical service providers
- Structured, rigorous, analytical and able to step back
- Pedagogical and able to pass on expertise
- Able to make decisions and defend a technical position
- Strong interpersonal intelligence and able to unite people in a cross-functional role
Nice to have
- Experience in a comparable critical environment would be particularly appreciated
Your team
pôle d'expertise technique transverse
Newly structured cross-functional technical expertise unit supporting operations and projects across sites
Benefits
- Bonus of 2 months' salary
- Flat-rate vehicle allowance over 12 months of €1,500
- Profit-sharing equivalent to 1-1.5 months' salary
- On-call duty subject to validation at end of probation
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About Is@talent
Join my client at the heart of critical infrastructures
Recruitment firm hiring for a client in the data centre environment.
Mission
Support a growing data centre player in structuring its operations
Key facts
- Recruitment / Data Center
- Position based in Paris / Île-de-France with a multi-site scope
- Priority scope notably covering two sites
What they value
- Standardisation, operational rigour and technical excellence