Regional Critical Facility Engineering Lead- Vice President

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Responsibilities: Design & Construction • Participate in the development of corporate standards and specifications that govern all aspects of design and construction of critical facilities and critical infrastructure of all facilities types • Ensure adherence to corporate standards for design, construction, and operation of critical facilities and related building systems. • Conduct reviews and provide required approval to construction and renovation projects occurring within critical facilities and for those that impact critical systems in mixed-use and satellite facilities within the APAC cluster portfolio. • Coordinate with CTS, TECH and CSIS teams to ensure capacity planning for new projects meets requirements • Maintain perspective on new and emerging technologies – including but not limited to Net Zero and Sustainability initiatives – and analyze potential uses within portfolio • Review all procurement and engineering specifications and participate in the procurement process to ensure consistency in approach across APAC clusters • Maintain industry awareness of new technology infrastructure hardware, trends, and future requirements. • Coordinate with International clusters and global Facility Management and Sustainability teams on all new projects to identify opportunities and incorporate best practices Operations • Manage overall service delivery in Strategic and Satellite data centers and other Critical Facilities, provide support in the management of other critical systems located in facilities throughout the clusters. • Participate in the development and maintenance of corporate standards for maintenance of critical equipment and operation of facilities • Maintain an inventory of critical components for use in sharing best practices, expediting repairs through leveraged parts positioning • Conduct regular reviews of existing operations to ensure maintenance and operating standards and environments are adequate for each facility • Identify common failure scenarios based upon installed base of similar components and configurations of equipment, focused on preempting outages with similar precedents across Citi and industry • Review all new capital and renovation projects within the APAC clusters with respect to operational requirements • Coordinate operations of Critical Facilities and systems within the APAC clusters with FM and Sustainability teams to identify opportunities and incorporate best practices • Assist in the development of an inventory of critical components for use in sharing best practices; expedite repairs through leveraged parts positioning • Conduct regular reviews of existing operations to ensure maintenance, operating standards, and environments are adequate for each facility. • Identify common failure scenarios based upon an installed base of similar components and configurations of equipment, focused to preempt outages with similar precedents across international clusters and the industry. Change Management • Oversee use of change control procedure for critical systems invasive maintenance and changes to ensure proper business level and CTS coordination is met, coordinate with other non-facilities changes and events in critical environments Review change management policy utilization across the APAC cluster facilities management teams and ensure strict adherence to policy • Manage APAC cluster escalation and approval method for emergency changes and events. Act as the APAC clusters’ top-level RES approver class in existing change management applications • Review change management schedules across facilities to ensure that production/cob paired facilities do not have coinciding work schedules Work with the global team to develop metrics on maintenance durations and outages to review comparable operations and ensure windows are adequately scheduled. • Act as advocate on behalf of APAC cluster and country managers in scheduling required maintenance and repairs. Assist in the ongoing development of global change control procedure for critical systems invasive maintenance and changes to ensure proper business level and Citi Technology Infrastructure (CTI) coordination is met. • Act as an advocate on behalf of APAC cluster and country managers in scheduling required maintenance and repairs. Strategy and Planning • Act as RES owner for the planning, development, and execution of critical facilities strategies. Maintain as-built documentation and load conditions up to date for critical systems based upon operations inventory and data Develop critical sites space, power, and cooling capacity plan and strategy in coordination with global and cluster TI teams. • Identify future risks and shortages in capacity in time to develop coordinated plans for hardware placement and potential expansion Coordinate with CTI GDCS team to identify and measure consolidation opportunities. • Act as advocate for hardware consolidation, providing proper metrics to facilitate the business case in terms of facility capital expenditure avoidance and other energy/operational savings Identify need and initiate critical systems capital projects where required due to space/power constraints or the con…