Data Center Facilities Technician, Control Systems

1 Month ago • 2-4 Years • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Control Systems, is responsible for inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems, including servers, network equipment, PLCs, and SCADA systems. This role involves providing daily assistance to senior technicians, reading blueprints and schematics, conducting system tours, and assessing their functionality. The technician will monitor, log, and manage alarms, respond to abnormal conditions, and support the startup and integration of new control equipment. They will also ensure that environmental and safety standards are met and work to minimize recovery time from failures. The ideal candidate possesses a minimum of 2 years of experience in controls/automation and is proficient in troubleshooting using standard hand tools and diagnostic equipment.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2 years controls/automation experience
  • Ability to lift 50lbs
  • Safety equipment proficiency
  • PLC and SCADA system knowledge
  • Blueprint/schematic reading
Good to have:
  • System administration certifications (CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, or Linux)
  • Data center, hospital, power plant, or lab experience
  • Scripting language experience
  • Meter, device, sensor, relay knowledge

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in controls/automation 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 such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Certification in system administration (e.g., CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, or Linux system administrator).
  • 2 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field.
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
  • Experience in scripting language.
  • Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
  • Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.

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 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.

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

  • Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) management.
  • Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
  • Control, monitoring, logging, and alarming systems.
  • Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
  • Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

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