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Data Center Facilities Technician II, Mechanical

3 Weeks ago • 5 Years + • Facilities Management

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Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician II, Mechanical is responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of various critical systems within Google's data centers. This includes HVAC systems, water pumps and treatment systems, and control and monitoring systems. Responsibilities encompass operating, monitoring, and responding to abnormal conditions, supporting the commissioning of new equipment, and contributing to design reviews. The role requires experience in mission-critical facilities and involves working 12-hour shifts, including weekends and holidays on-call rotation. The technician will also produce standards and templates for global control/monitoring system analysis and preventive maintenance. They ensure environmental and safety standards are met and work to minimize recovery time from failures.

Must have:

5 years experience in mission critical facilities
HVAC and mechanical systems commissioning experience
Troubleshooting mechanical/HVAC systems
Ability to work 12-hour shifts, including weekends and holidays
Associate's degree or equivalent experience

Good to have:

MEP systems maintenance experience
Data center operations experience

Minimum qualifications:

Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in operating and maintaining mission critical facilities (data centers, hospitals, pharma, refineries, power plants, industrial, etc.).
Commissioning experience of HVAC and mechanical distribution systems (chillers, air handling units, etc.) to include air and water side systems.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with maintenance on mechanical or Mechanical, Electric and Plumbing (MEP) systems, and capable of independently resolving common system failures.
Experience with operations in a data center and troubleshooting for mechanical/HVAC systems.
Ability to work with varying outdoor temperature conditions, perform material handling (lifting/shifting) and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
Ability to learn quickly and address issues as they arise during normal operations or during emergency conditions.
Ability to work non-standard 12 hour shifts including weekends and holidays on-call rotation.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of water pumps and treatment systems, Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC), and Control and Monitoring Systems.
Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment. Provide tracking and trending operational characteristics.
Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure. Direct the execution of starting-up, commissioning, documentation, and full facilities turnover on assigned projects.
Provide operational and maintenance insights into the design review process.
Produce standards and templates for global control/monitoring system analysis, diagnostic, preventive maintenance, and trend logs for data center critical facilities systems.

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