Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical
Job Summary
Job Description
- Associate's degree or equivalent experience
- 5 years of HVAC/Mechanical experience
- Ability to lift 50lbs
- Knowledge of data center mechanical systems
- Inspect, maintain, and repair systems
- F-Gas certification
- Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants
- Knowledge of meters, sensors, and troubleshooting equipment
2 skills required
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:
- Certification in F-Gas (3kg preferred).
- 5 years of experience in maintenance of mechanical/cooling distribution systems or in a construction/technical environment.
- Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
- Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
- Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g. chillers, air handling units, pumps and CRAC/CRAH units).
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 play a crucial role in ensuring that data centers run smoothly and sustainably, focusing on the mechanical systems that power the global network.
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
- 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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