Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

1 Month ago • 2-4 Years • Facilities Management • $73,500 PA - $103,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical, is responsible for inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems. This includes managing the uptime and maintenance of UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems. The role involves providing daily assistance to senior technicians, reading blueprints and schematics, conducting system tours, and assessing their working order. The technician will also support the startup, commissioning, and integration of new electrical equipment and systems. In addition to routine maintenance, the role requires responding to abnormal conditions and managing data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of electrical systems used in a data center environment and experience with electrical testing equipment and distribution. The role also involves material handling tasks and adherence to safety standards.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2 years of electrical experience
  • Ability to lift 50 lbs
  • Knowledge of data center electrical systems
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Blueprint reading
Good to have:
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants
  • Knowledge of meters, sensors, and diagnostic equipment
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

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 Electrical experience (eg. electrical testing equipment or electrical distribution) in an industrial or commercial environment.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.
  • 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.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 2 years of experience in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environment or a related field.
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
  • Knowledge of electrical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units).
  • Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, 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.

As a Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers.

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 $73,500-$103,000 + 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.
  • Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints, schematics, sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
  • Manage the uptime and maintenance of UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems.
  • Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
  • Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new electrical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

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