Data Center Facilities Technician (Mechanical)

1 Month ago • 5-5 Years • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician (Mechanical) at Google is responsible for inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems, including piping and mechanical components. They assist technicians, read blueprints, conduct system tours, and assess functionality. Responsibilities also include managing water pumps, HVAC, and monitoring systems, responding to abnormal conditions, supporting new equipment integration, and ensuring data center uptime. This role demands a strong understanding of mechanical systems in data centers (chillers, AHUs, pumps, CRAC/CRAH units) and the ability to work non-standard hours. The ideal candidate will be an advocate for best practices, improving efficiency while meeting safety standards. Emergency response and minimizing downtime are critical aspects of the job.
Must have:
  • 5 years HVAC/Mechanical experience
  • Associate's degree or equivalent
  • Ability to lift 50 lbs
  • Data center system maintenance
  • Blueprint reading
  • Emergency response
Good to have:
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants
  • Knowledge of electrical systems
  • Communication with contractors

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of Mechanical/HVAC, experience 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 work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 5 years of experience in maintenance of mechanical/cooling distribution systems, construction/technical environment, or a related field.
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
  • Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and controls systems, including: Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers or commercial HVAC units.
  • Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Chillers, Air handling units, pumps and CRAC/CRAH units).
  • 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.

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 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 piping and mechanical system components.
  • 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 water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, 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 mechanical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

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