Senior Facility Operations Manager - Colocation North America

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The Sr. Manager, Facility Operations – Colocation, North America is responsible for ensuring that every colocation provider supporting Crusoe Cloud across North America operates in full alignment with Crusoe Operations Standards. This role owns the operational governance relationship with colocation partners — from standards enforcement and compliance audits to incident management and vendor performance — safeguarding the reliability, safety, and security of the infrastructure that powers Crusoe Cloud.

The ideal candidate combines deep mission-critical facilities expertise with strong vendor management skills and is comfortable operating as Crusoe's on-the-ground authority across a distributed, multi-provider colocation footprint.

Operations Standards Governance & Compliance

• Own enforcement of Crusoe Operations Standards across all third-party colocation provider sites supporting Crusoe Cloud in North America.

• Conduct recurring audits, physical inspections, and documentation reviews of colocation facilities against Crusoe's safety, reliability, security, and environmental standards.

• Partner with the Global Data Center Operations Standards team to localize and interpret standards in light of NFPA (70/70E/72), NEC, OSHA, and applicable state/provincial and utility interconnection requirements.

• Own the tracking and timely closure of compliance gaps, audit findings, and corrective action plans (CAPs) in partnership with providers.

Colocation Partner Management

• Serve as the primary operational point of contact for coordination with each provider's facility operators, engineers, account managers, customer-service teams, and leadership across third-party colocation facilities across North America.

• Serve as Crusoe’s primary escalation point for maintenance, incidents, outages, service issues, chronic deficiencies, and provider performance.

• Own provider communications, escalation tracking, action items, and timely resolution of operational issues.

• Monitor service requests and ensure provider performance meets applicable Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Statements of Work (SOWs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Conduct regular site visits, facility walkthroughs, maintenance reviews, operational assessments, and meetings with provider leadership.

• Review provider staffing models, escalation procedures, preventive-maintenance programs, and emergency-response readiness.

• Lead governance cadences (monthly/quarterly business reviews) with providers, reviewing SLA performance, uptime, maintenance execution, and standards…