From Lead Critical Facilities Technician to Facilities Assurance Lead
A sideways move on the ladder.
There’s a page for this pathway in , with its licences and local details.
Skills to build
What a Facilities Assurance Lead needs beyond a Lead Critical Facilities Technician.
Provider assurance
- Assess a provider’s site before committing load Leads others
- Audit a provider’s maintenance programme and records Leads others
- Direct and train a partner’s on-site team Leads others
- Review a provider’s MOP, switching plan or change Leads others
- Set and keep a responsibility matrix Leads others
- Verify service with your own data Leads others
Commissioning
- Check operational readiness at handover Leads others
Leadership
- Find root causes and learn from incidents Up to Leads others
Cooling plant
- Psychrometrics and the thermal envelope Leads others
MV switching
- Read MV systems and their protection Leads others
LV distribution
- Trace the power path and its redundancy Leads others
Procedures and documents
- Work within change management Up to Leads others
- Write and review a MOP Leads others
Power transfer and generation
- Prime and behind-the-meter power Independent
Liquid cooling
- Know who owns each part of the loop Up to Leads others, desirable
- Liquid-cooled IT and its loops Leads others, desirable
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Sources and licences
- Critical Facilities reference framework © Facility Labs. (CC BY 4.0)
- ISCO-08, International Labour Organization, as published in ESCO v1.2.1. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents)