Apple
Critical Facilities Lead
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum of 7–10+ years in critical facilities operations and 3+ years leading technical teams, subcontractors, or acting as a lead facility engineer.
- Education
- Master or Journeyman Electrician License, OR Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Facilities Engineering, or related technical field, OR equivalent specialized military electrical power generation/distribution experience.
About the job
Leads the operation, reliability, maintenance, and safety of campus critical electrical infrastructure, including power distribution, UPS, backup generation, and monitoring systems.
What you'll do
- Oversee maintenance, testing, switching operations, and reliability programs for electrical distribution, UPS, generators, and monitoring systems.
- Develop and enforce operating procedures and electrical safety and compliance practices; lead incident investigations and emergency response.
- Manage contractors and represent operations in capital projects, commissioning, and equipment upgrades.
What they ask for
- Minimum of 7–10+ years of hands-on critical facilities operations experience.
- Minimum of 3+ years leading technical teams, subcontractors, or as a lead facility engineer.
- Direct medium-voltage switchgear experience, plus in-depth knowledge of UPS, battery systems, standby generators, paralleling switchgear, and ATS systems.
- Documented mastery of NFPA 70E and Qualified Electrical Worker (QEW) credentials.
Nice to have
- CDCMP, CFM, or CEM credential; or Level 1/2 Infrared Thermography certification.
- Experience with SEL or Basler protective relays, enterprise EPMS software, or commissioning levels 1 through 5.
Tools
Medium Voltage (MV) switchgear, UPS, EPMS, SCADA, CMMS, SEL, Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Power SCADA, Eaton Foreseer
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