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About the Role

Vantage Data Centers is establishing a new senior leadership role to build and lead a fleetwide reliability and technical assurance capability. This function will provide a central mechanism for understanding reliability risk, validating critical controls, learning from incidents, and driving improvements across the operating fleet. The role aims to set, govern, and assure global operations standards, performance, and risk across the portfolio, focusing on customer impact and risk-based assurance.

Responsibilities

Establish the fleetwide reliability baseline and risk model.
Build the common reliability and resilience baseline.
Define a risk-ranking method that prioritizes customer-impacting risk.
Stand up the recurring assurance cycle and the evidence model for critical controls.
Lead technical assurance, inspection, and critical control verification.
Lead high-consequence independent reviews and field verification across electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, emergency response, and commissioning.
Drive corrective action and closed-loop learning by translating incidents, near misses, and weak signals into structured learning.
Maintain a risk-ranked corrective action register.
Ensure validated lessons feed into standards, procedures, telemetry, supplier requirements, training, and capital plans.
Foster transparent reporting and accountable learning by building an environment where errors and near misses are surfaced early.
Develop the roadmap for configuration and automation drift detection.
Partner with Product, Automation, IT, and Cybersecurity on requirements for telemetry, alarm quality, configuration management, and AI-enabled drift detection.
Establish executive reporting and governance, setting the operating cadence with Operations.
Prepare concise monthly executive reporting that drives decisions.
Provide portfolio-level visibility into operational performance, risk, and trends through standardized metrics and reporting frameworks.
Distinguish site execution issues from systemic patterns, standards gaps, supplier issues, and investment constraints.
Set and govern global operational standards, performance, and risk.
Establish the global operational standards framework and associated policies.
Establish portfolio-wide KPIs, metrics, and reporting frameworks.
Audit compliance with standards, identify systemic gaps and portfolio-wide improvement opportunities, and drive consistency, governance, accountability, and continuous improvement across regions.
Build and lead the function, holding owned budget and authority to build a focused direct team.
Exercise formal authority within the remit, requiring evidence, setting assurance scope and cadence, conducting reviews and inspections, owning the central corrective action register, requiring management responses, and requiring deviations from critical controls to be explicit, risk-ranked, time-bound, approved, and visible.
Escalate findings directly to the Executive Leadership Team, in partnership with regional teams.
Perform additional duties as assigned by Management.

Requirements

15+ years in mission-critical operations, reliability engineering, operational assurance, critical facilities, industrial operations, process safety, or another high-reliability environment.
Demonstrated experience leading reliability, technical assurance, operational excellence, engineering assurance, or risk-based inspection across a complex operating fleet.
Strong working understanding of mission-critical electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, commissioning, maintenance, and operating procedure environments.
Experience investigating incidents, near misses, recurring defects, or systemic reliability issues and converting findings into practical corrective actions.
Experience building governance or assurance systems that drive operational improvement rather than reporting alone.
Credible field presence: comfortable with site walks, control rooms, methods of procedure, maintenance realities, and difficult technical conversations.
Ability to operate through influence in a matrixed environment, with the credibility to challenge senior leaders while maintaining trust and partnership.
Executive-level communication skills: concise risk narratives, decision-ready papers, and credibility with a senior executive audience.
Global travel required is expected to be up to 30%-40% but may increase over time.

Skills

Reliability engineering
Technical assurance
Operational excellence
Risk-based inspection
Electrical systems
Mechanical systems
Controls systems
Automation
Commissioning
Maintenance procedures
Incident investigation
Corrective action implementation
Governance systems
Assurance systems
Executive communication
Influence
Partnership
Operational technology
BMS and SCADA
Alarm quality
Configuration management
Telemetry
AI-enabled tooling

Location

Denver, Colorado
London, England

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior leadership
15+ years

Education Level

Professional engineering qualification or equivalent technical credibility (preferred)

Salary/Compensations

$250,000-$270,000 Base + Bonus

Benefits

Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Life and AD&D coverage
Short-term disability coverage
Long-term disability coverage
Paid time off
Employee assistance program
401k program with company match
Additional voluntary benefits
Comprehensive suite of health and welfare benefits
Retirement benefits
Paid leave benefits
Recognition programs
Training and development

About the Company

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises.
Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.
We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance.
We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses.
We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do.
Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package.
Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.

Equal Opportunity

Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer.