# Facilities Operations Manager

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $159k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Electrical Distribution Systems, Generators, Ups Systems, Cooling Systems, Building Controls, Reliability Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Preventative Maintenance, Liquid Cooling Systems, High-Density Compute Deployments
**Posted:** 2026-05-28

> Lead day-to-day operations of mission-critical facility infrastructure across AI compute campuses. Own operational readiness activities and partner with commissioning teams to transition facilities into steady-state operations. Develop and implement operating procedures, maintenance programs, and response plans.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
* Lead day-to-day operations of mission-critical facility infrastructure across AI compute campuses.
* Own operational readiness activities supporting new campus deployments and infrastructure expansion.
* Partner with commissioning teams to transition facilities from construction and startup into steady-state operations.
* Develop, implement, and continuously improve operating procedures, maintenance programs, and response plans.
* Lead infrastructure incident response efforts and coordinate recovery activities during critical events.
* Drive root cause analysis investigations and corrective action programs to improve reliability and operational performance.
* Manage vendors, contractors, and service providers supporting facility operations.
* Partner with hardware deployment, networking, and engineering teams to coordinate infrastructure changes and maintenance activities.
* Monitor facility performance, operational risk, and capacity utilization across critical systems.
* Support staffing, training, and development of facilities operations personnel.
* Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and operational standards.
* Establish operational processes that scale alongside OpenAI's rapidly growing infrastructure footprint.

## Qualifications
* 8+ years of experience operating mission-critical facilities, data centers, industrial infrastructure, or large-scale technical operations environments.
* Possess strong knowledge of electrical distribution systems, generators, UPS systems, cooling systems, and building controls.
* Have experience supporting commissioning, operational readiness, or infrastructure turnover programs.
* Have led facility operations teams, contractors, and third-party vendors.
* Are comfortable responding to incidents and making decisions in high-pressure operational environments.
* Have experience developing maintenance strategies, operating procedures, and reliability programs.
* Enjoy operating in fast-paced environments with significant ambiguity and rapid growth.
* Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

## Preferred Skills
* Experience supporting hyperscale, cloud, AI, HPC, or mission-critical data center environments.
* Experience with liquid cooling systems and high-density compute deployments.
* Familiarity with reliability engineering methodologies, root cause analysis, and preventative maintenance programs.
* Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure deployment programs.
* Experience working across construction, commissioning, engineering, and operations organizations.
* Experience scaling operational processes across multiple campuses or geographic regions.

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