Site Lead
cw
📍 kuala lumpur malaysia malaysia🕐 1mo ago🔗 workday
Job Description
**Job Title**
Site Lead (Data Centre, Johor)
**Job Description Summary**
Lead acts as the senior onsite operational authority, accountable for day-to-day data centre operations, facilities management, security/EHS, asset management, network support, and server delivery coordination across the site.
This role ensures all engineering and operational activities meet company standards, SLAs, and compliance requirements, executing with a safety-first, hands-on leadership approach to protect uptime and prevent downtime.
**Job Description**
**About the Role:**
* Lead 24x7 onsite data center operations across technical, facilities management, security, asset, network, and server delivery workstreams to ensure continuous availability of critical infrastructure
* Act as the primary onsite operational escalation point, overseeing incident, problem, and change management while ensuring strict adherence to internal procedures, technical standards, and uptime requirements
* Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance activities with Data Centre Providers and vendors, including review of **MOPs, SOPs, EOPs**, maintenance schedules, and change requests
* Oversee account performance, client coordination, compliance, audits, KPI tracking, and regular operational reporting across the site
* Manage onsite teams, contractors, and vendors, ensuring effective shift coverage, on-call readiness, safety compliance, and continuous improvement across operational performance
* Support network and server delivery operations by coordinating with supply chain, cabling vendors, NOC, telecom providers, and technical teams to ensure timely execution and escalation management
**About You:**
* 6+ years of experience in mission-critical or data center operations, with strong exposure to facilities management, operational leadership, incident response, and uptime-driven environments
* Strong knowledge of critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems, with familiarity in **DCIM, BMS, CMMS**, and other operational monitoring platforms
* Proven experience leading incident response, operational risk management, root cause reviews, and continuous service improvement in a 24x7 environment
* Strong leadership capability, with experience managing engineers, technicians, vendors, or senior operational teams across multiple workstreams
* Structured, safety-first, and execution-focused approach, with familiarity in industry-standard frameworks such as **PTW, LOTO, RA, EOP, SOP, and PPM**
* Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in **Computer Science, IT, Telecommunications, Network Engineering**, or a related field, with strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills across internal teams and external partners
INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”