Data Center Facilities Technician, Controls

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or related training program certification in a relevant technical field (eg. CMCO, SMT, etc.).
• Experience in mechanical/heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), or electrical.
• Ability to work non-standard hours.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience at Apprenticeship or Technician level in a critical environment.
  
• Ability to learn quickly and address issues as they arise during normal working hours or when on-call.
  

About the job

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 a master of exceptional 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.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Responsibilities

• Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions.
  
• Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical distribution systems and power monitoring.
• Operate, monitor, maintain and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Demonstrate the ability to follow the site’s environmental health and safety policies.
• Support standards and produce templates for monitoring power quality, diagnostic, preventive maintenance, and trend logs for data center critical facilities power distribution systems.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.