Director, Lifecycle Engineering

Director, Lifecycle Engineering

Systems Engineering

Position Overview

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The Director, Lifecycle Engineering leads the systems, data, and operating processes that govern the equipment digital thread from product definition through procurement, manufacture, logistics, commissioning and handover into asset, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)/ Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and data-centre maintenance operations.

The role delivers the lifecycle engineering roadmap, standards, and governance required to establish a scalable equipment digital thread: a canonical equipment and asset master, controlled product, configuration, Bill of Materials (BOM), and technical-documentation data, a single asset identity across system boundaries, and CMMS/EAM capabilities that operations and reliability teams can trust. Working within the target architecture and standards owned by the VP, Systems Engineering, this is a hands-on leadership role accountable for building and running a high-performing team, driving adoption across functions, and closing the seams between engineering, procurement, logistics, construction, commissioning, and operations across the estate.

Reports To

VP, Data Center, Systems Engineering

Direct Reports

Lifecycle Engineering managers, engineers, and data stewards

Travel

Regular travel to data-center sites, supplier factories, and FAT/commissioning activity

Key Responsibilities

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Roadmap, standards and governance

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• Translate the lifecycle engineering strategy into a costed, sequenced roadmap with clear deliverables, dependencies, decision points, and business outcomes, and own delivery against it.
• Build and maintain the business cases, budget, and reporting for CMMS/EAM, Product Information Management (PIM)/ Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), integration, data-platform, and related capabil