Data Center Plant Engineer

4 Days ago • 7 Years + • Facilities Management • $105,000 PA - $151,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Plant Engineer at Google designs, operates, and maintains sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. Responsibilities include monitoring and supporting physical facilities conditions (heating, cooling, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution), inspecting and repairing data center systems, collaborating with contractors, and ensuring environmental and safety standards are met. The role requires troubleshooting issues, minimizing downtime, and developing cost-saving strategies to improve data center efficiency. The engineer will lead compliance activities, improve processes, and ensure global teams adhere to Google's standards.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 7 years experience in relevant field
  • Data center systems knowledge (HVAC, Chillers, etc.)
  • Troubleshooting and repair skills
  • Contractor communication
Good to have:
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Data center, hospital, or power plant experience
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.
  • 7 years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or Controls/Automation experience in an industrial/commercial environment.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree in a related field.
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
  • Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g. Chillers, Air handling units, pumps and CRAC/CRAH 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.
  • Ability to learn and address issues as they arise.

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 a master of exceptional 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.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $105,000-$151,000 + 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

  • Drive efforts to test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical equipment operation for the data center domain of expertise.
  • Lead efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
  • Drive efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any excursions.
  • Drive efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
  • Lead the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with driving site-level development of programs and initiatives.

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