Data Center Facilities Technician, Controls

1 Month ago • 5-5 Years • Facilities Management • $87,000 PA - $125,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Controls, is responsible for inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems, including servers, network equipment, PLCs, and access control systems. This role involves monitoring and controlling systems, responding to abnormal conditions, and supporting the integration of new controls equipment. Responsibilities include reading blueprints, schematics, and ladder logic, conducting system tours, and assessing working order. The technician will also assist other technicians, manage alarms, and ensure environmental and safety standards are met. Experience in controls/automation, data center environments, and troubleshooting is crucial. The role requires working non-standard hours and different shifts.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5 years experience in controls/automation
  • Ability to lift 50 lbs, work at heights
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Knowledge of HVAC, electrical systems
Good to have:
  • Industry standard certifications (CompTIA A+, Network+, etc.)
  • Data center, hospital, power plant experience
  • Scripting language experience
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, other certified training, or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
  • 5 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or in a related field.
  • Ability to lift 50 lbs of equipment, work on platforms, ladders, under raised floors.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts

Preferred qualifications:

  • Industry standard certifications related to system administration. (e.g., CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator).
  • 5 years of experience in controls/automation, a construction/technical environment, or a related field.
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
  • Expeirence 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).

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 a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $87,000-$125,000 + 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 .

Responsibilities

  • Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and SCADA management.
  • Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints, schematics, ladder logic, and sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
  • Control, monitor, log, and alarm 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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