Senior Director, Lifecycle Engineering

Location: US. Regular travel to data-center sites, supplier factories, and FAT/commissioning activities is required.

Base salary: $350,000–$420,000 USD per year, plus potential bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.

What you will do

• Set the enterprise lifecycle engineering strategy, investment portfolio, target architecture, and multi-year roadmap.
• Govern the equipment and asset digital thread from product definition through procurement, manufacturing, logistics, commissioning, handover, and maintenance.
• Establish canonical asset identity, taxonomy, hierarchy, item-master, configuration, BOM, documentation, and data-quality standards.
• Own CMMS/EAM master data and configuration, including preventive maintenance strategy, work management, spares, warranties, and reporting.
• Integrate condition data from DCIM, BMS, SCADA, and operational technology systems with asset records and work orders.
• Build and lead a scalable Lifecycle Engineering organization while aligning engineering, procurement, construction, operations, reliability, IT, data, finance, and HSE stakeholders.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in engineering, asset management, enterprise systems, or a related field, including 7+ years leading complex cross-functional programs at director, senior-director, or equivalent level.
• Proven ownership of a CMMS/EAM platform at scale, such as Attune, IBM Maximo, SAP PM/EAM, Infor EAM, Nuvolo, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with PIM and/or PLM, configuration management, item masters, product variants, BOM structures, engineering change, and effectivity control.
• Strong enterprise systems experience across ERP, procurement and supply-chain systems, document management, integrations, and master data governance.
• Experience with ITIL-aligned service management and controlled SOP, MOP, EOP, LOTO, and permit-to-work regimes in mission-critical environments.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry or an equivalent industrial data platform, data stewardship, golden records, source validation, deduplication, and data-quality KPIs.

Nice to have

• Data-center plant literacy covering electrical and mechanical systems such as UPS, switchgear, transformers, chillers, dry coolers, PDU, busway, BMS/EPMS, and OFCI/CFI delivery models.
• Experience integrating DCIM, BMS/SCADA, and OT/IIoT systems, including tag-to-asset mapping and alarm rationalization.
• Knowledge of RAM, RCM, FMEA, RCA, ISO 14224, and ISO 55000 reliability methods and standards.
• Experience with BIM/COBie handover, digital-twin data exchange, and supplier lifecycle-data requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Leadership role spanning engineering, procurement, supply chain, construction, commissioning, operations, reliability, IT, platform and data, finance, and HSE.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits may be available.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave may be available.
• Retirement plan participation may be available.