Product area
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
Job description
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and HVAC systems in the world. Facilities Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some of these duties will include heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control and monitoring systems. You regularly help inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components). You provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.
As an advocate for best practices, you develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.
Additional job description
In this role, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers.
Qualifications
Job responsibilities
- Operate, maintain, troubleshoot and repair electrical equipment in a Data Center environment.
- Prepare and execute operation procedures, respond to work request/service failure and provide operational and technical expertise in required areas. Coordinate vendor support in repairs/replacement and support project implementation (e.g.,Site acceptance tests, factory acceptance tests, site inspection for defects, etc.).
- Improve site Water Usage Effectiveness WUE and Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), operational efficiency and to minimize environmental impact. Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA), recovery and prevention actions for service failure.
- Provide tracking and trending operational characteristics. Ensure safety rules and regulations associated with operating infrastructure.
- Work 12 hour rotating shifts including weekends and holidays as needed.
Minimum qualifications
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of Electrical experience (e.g., electrical testing equipment or electrical distribution) in an industrial or commercial environment.
- Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, the required use of safety equipment like limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
- Ability to work non-standard hours, including on-call rotation and 12-hour rotating shifts.
Preferred qualifications
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, verifiable training in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in operating and maintaining mission critical facilities (data centers, hospitals, pharma, semiconductor, refineries, power plants, industrial etc).
- Experience in troubleshooting electrical systems.
- Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and controls systems, including: Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, Air handling units and CRAC units.
- Ability to learn quickly and address issues as they arise during normal operations or during emergency conditions.
- Ability to work with varying outdoor temperature conditions.
