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Flexential

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

📡 Telecommunications

B2B • Enterprise • Telecommunications

Flexential is a US-based provider of data center infrastructure and hybrid IT services. The FlexAnywhere® platform combines colocation, cloud (public/private/hybrid), connectivity/interconnection, data protection, managed and professional services to support enterprise workloads — including high-density GPU and AI/ML deployments. Flexential operates 40+ data centers across 18 US markets (3M+ sq. ft. footprint) and a 100+ Gbps network backbone, and positions itself as a B2B partner for enterprises needing resilient, scalable, and interconnected infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead all day-to-day operations across the company’s data center portfolio, with accountability for execution, reliability, workforce performance, and site level discipline. • Provide leadership to regional operations leaders and site teams, establishing clear expectations, strong operating rhythms, and visible accountability for performance. • Drive consistency across facilities while preserving appropriate agility to respond to local operational realities, customer needs, and evolving business priorities. • Build a performance culture rooted in safety, ownership, responsiveness, preparation, and continuous improvement. • Drive rigorous maintenance, data quality, and operational adoption of DCIM, BMS, building automation, and controls platforms to strengthen visibility, standardize execution, and improve portfolio performance. • Own the operational performance and lifecycle review of mission critical facility infrastructure, including electrical, mechanical, plumbing, cooling, life safety, critical power, generation, UPS, switchgear, and supporting systems required to sustain uptime and customer confidence. • Ensure strong maintenance discipline, technical readiness, facility inspections, incident preparedness, and operational rigor across all sites. • Provide executive oversight for Environmental Health and Safety programs across the operations organization. • Lead physical security operations and reinforce disciplined execution of site access, life safety, and risk management protocols. • Translate enterprise standards, training, reporting, operational intelligence, and controls related insights into high-quality execution across the field organization.

🎯 Requirements

• Ten or more years of progressive leadership experience in mission critical operations, industrial operations, or similarly complex environments where uptime, safety, and technical discipline are paramount. • Significant experience leading multi site operations teams with accountability for performance across multiple geographies. • Deep expertise in data center or similarly critical mechanical, electrical, and plumbing intensive environments. • Demonstrated success improving operational consistency, workforce performance, reliability, and execution quality at scale. • Experience leading through incidents, elevated operational risk, and periods of organizational growth or transformation. • Strong command of safety, compliance, physical security, and risk management principles in operational settings. • Excellent executive communication skills, strong judgment, and the ability to influence across functions and levels.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision • 401(k) • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) • Life and AD&D • Short Term and Long-Term disability • Flex Paid Time Off (PTO) • Leave of Absence • Employee Assistance Program • Wellness Program • Rewards and Recognition Program