Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Data Centers
Atlanta, GA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in the following fields: new product introduction/supply chain, sustaining operations, management/manufacturing, operations/development or operations engineering.
- 8 years of experience in people management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
- Certification in lean six sigma.
- Experience in Manufacturing, Quality, or Product Engineering for hardware technology and systems and in Project management.
- Experience with strategic and operational initiatives.
- Ability to work, influence, and resolve conflicts cross-functionally with internal/external partners.
- Ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas.
About the job
As a Manufacturing Engineering Manager for Electrical Data Center Equipment, you will architect the interface between design innovation and global scale, governing the manufacturing life-cycle for Google’s mission-critical electrical infrastructure. You will lead an engineering team to institutionalize Design for Excellence (DFx) frameworks, ensuring power systems from switchgear to modular Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) are optimized for rapid and reliable deployment.You will drive supply chain agility by orchestrating technical vendor audits and Factory Readiness Gap Analyses (FRGA) across a network of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and Integrators. By enforcing advanced process controls and lean methodologies, you ensure systemic operational excellence. Your leadership centralizes global risk mitigation through standardized Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) governance and data-driven test strategies. Ultimately, you will be responsible for building a responsive, high-velocity manufacturing engine that translates electrical design into a resilient, scalable, and high-quality global data center footprint.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$248,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Define and enforce the DFx (Design for Manufacturing, Assembly, and Serviceability) roadmap for data center hardware, ensuring consistency across all Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners during Concept Readiness (CR).
- Lead executive-level Feasibility Reviews (FR) to resolve "Red Flag" features, balancing product design goals with global supply chain scalability.
- Implement a standard Design for Manufacturing (DFM) reporting structure that allows for rapid design iterations, ensuring a seamless transition from concept to design freeze.
- Oversee global Run-at-Rate (RaR) validations and Line Balancing (LB) strategies; ensure that Takt-to-Cycle (T/C) time alignment is optimized across multiple global integrators to meet Google’s fluctuating demand.
- Direct the development of standardized Process Flow Diagrams (PFD) and Material Presentation Plans (MPP) to ensure lean logistics and "Right-Part-at-Right-Time" delivery to the line.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.