Site Operations Lead, Cable Landing Station

Remote location: Portugal.

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in organizational and operational management and leadership.
• 5 years of experience managing teams at an operational level in a CLS, data center, technical facility or general engineering/logistics environment.
• Commercial and contract management experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with complex multi-disciplinary geographically distributed teams.
• Experience overseeing Network/Facility Technicians and having technical insight.
• Experience in the Subsea Cabling Domain.
• Experience with Cable Landing Station setup.

About the job

In this role, you will serve as the primary on-site owner’s representative for Google's Cable Landing Stations. This critical role will be directly responsible for local service assurance and safeguarding Google's infrastructure investments by overseeing service provider performance and enforcing Google's engineering and operational standards and will ensure optimal network availability and reliability. This role demands a strong operational leader who ensures full compliance with standard operating procedures.

You will serve as a key on-the-ground point-of-contact for local stakeholder engagement, customs, security engagement, community relations, and direct coordination with regional governmental bodies and authorities into google as needed. You will act as the dedicated on-site executive sponsor for regulatory compliance, environmental governance, EHS, and statutory site audits, ensuring adherence to local laws and rapid resolution of official findings.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Portugal: €80000 - €82000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day local service assurance, ensuring resilient, reliable, and high-performance operations at the cable landing station (CLS), including all Fronthaul and associated network, outside plant (OSP) and suppliers.
• Oversee the performance of third-party Service Providers, partners and contractors, ensuring adherence to predefined service level agreements and planned activities.
• Drive mean time to repair for facility and FH critical systems (cables, generators, UPS, cooling), optical transmission and power feed equipment. Drive long mean time before failure for key assets by preventative maintenance and solid asset management principles.
• Perform operational assessments and risk audits guaranteeing operational readiness and regulatory assurance. Ensure third-party competency and green-listed background checks of staff maintaining principle equipment.
• Oversee facilities management contracts and third-party partnerships, environmental safeguards, and ensure compliance with Health and Safety (EHS) policies, ensure completion of fronthaul preventative/security checks.

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