Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical

2 Days ago • 2 Years + • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical, is responsible for the uptime, maintenance, operation, troubleshooting, and repair of mechanical equipment in a Google data center environment. Responsibilities include providing root cause analysis for service failures, executing operational procedures, responding to service requests, and supporting the commissioning and integration of new equipment. The role requires working rotational shifts, including weekends and holidays, and collaborating with senior technicians on inspections, maintenance, and repairs. The technician will also contribute to improving data center efficiency, ensuring adherence to safety and environmental standards, and managing performance issues during emergencies.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2 years' experience in mission-critical facilities
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
  • HVAC and mechanical systems experience
  • Troubleshooting and repair skills
Good to have:
  • Commissioning experience
  • Understanding of data center electrical systems
  • Experience with safety regulations
  • Vendor management skills
  • Blueprint reading

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 operating and maintaining mission critical facilities (e.g., data centers, hospitals, pharma, semiconductor, refineries, power plants, etc.).
  • 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.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with safety rules and regulations associated with operating infrastructure.
  • Experience in commissioning of HVAC and mechanical distribution systems (e.g., chillers, cooling tower, fire system, air handling units etc.) which include air and water side systems.
  • Experience operating and maintaining mission-critical facilities (e.g., data centers, hospitals, pharmaceutical plants, semiconductor facilities, refineries, power plants, etc.).
  • Understanding of electrical and mechanical systems used in a data center environment, including: chillers, air handling units, CRAC units, power feeders/distribution, transformers, generators, switchgears, UPS systems, ATS/STS units and PDU/PMM units.
  • Ability to maintain mechanical systems and resolve system failures.

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.

In this role, you will ensure operational integrity and compliance of data center mechanical systems. You will drive system reliability, leading commissioning activities, managing daily operations, leading efficiency improvement projects, and overseeing the comprehensive maintenance program, including vendor management, while adhering to all legal and safety standards.

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

  • Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, operation, troubleshooting, and repair of mechanical equipment in a data center environment.
  • Provide root cause analysis (RCA), recovery and prevention actions for service failure.
  • Prepare and execute operation procedures, respond to work request/service failure and provide operational and technical experience in required areas.
  • Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure, and coordinate vendor support for repairs and project implementation.
  • Plan and work rotational shifts including weekends and holidays as needed.

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