Facilities Technician, Electrical

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Facilities Technician, Electrical will operate, monitor, and maintain critical electrical systems within Google's data centers in Eemshaven, Netherlands. Responsibilities include inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems, assisting senior technicians with blueprints and system assessments, managing UPS, generators, and electrical distribution systems, and responding to abnormal conditions. The role requires fluency in Dutch and English, and experience with HV/LV electrical distribution systems, protection and controls, and power quality. The successful candidate will contribute to optimizing data center efficiency, ensuring environmental and safety standards are met, and minimizing downtime during emergencies.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years experience in electrical systems maintenance
  • Mission-critical facility experience
  • HV/LV, protection & controls, power quality knowledge
  • Fluent in Dutch and English
  • Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems
Good to have:
  • Experience with data center electrical systems (e.g., UPS, generators)
  • Experience planning and executing installations
  • Data center, hospital, or power plant experience
  • Knowledge of troubleshooting using standard tools and equipment

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 maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environment or a related field.
  • Experience working in mission critical facility maintenance and operations.
  • Experience with Electrical Distribution Systems (HV, LV, Protection and Controls, and Power Quality).
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.
  • Ability to speak and write in Dutch and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience planning and executing installation, commissioning, and equipment startup, following industry best practices and protocols.
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
  • Knowledge of electrical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM 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.

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 Google's data centers.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems.
  • 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 UPS, generators, electrical distribution, 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 electrical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

Similar Jobs

supercell - Encounter Designer

supercell

Shanghai, China (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Google - Data Center Facilities Engineer, Electrical (English, Japanese)

Google

Inzai, Chiba, Japan (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Ariens Company - Tool & Die Tech 1st shift

Ariens Company

Fayetteville, Tennessee, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
hogarth - 3D Animator

hogarth

Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
flying wild hog - Lead Technical Artist

flying wild hog

Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid)
10 Months ago
Assystems - Senior Site Engineer- Civil

Assystems

Gujrat, Punjab, India (On-Site)
7 Months ago
Tesla - Facilities Manager - Central Europe

Tesla

Berlin, Berlin, Germany (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Google - Program Manager I, Maintenance Planning, Data Center Operations

Google

New Albany, Ohio, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
The Walt Disney Company - Investment Planning Intern

The Walt Disney Company

Île-de-France, France (On-Site)
1 Month ago
The Monarch Enterprises - Furniture Painter

The Monarch Enterprises

Kalyan, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
6 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

PlayStation Global - UX Designer

PlayStation Global

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Warner Bros - Avalanche - Associate Designer

Warner Bros - Avalanche

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States (On-Site)
3 Days ago
Giant Sparrow - Gameplay Designer

Giant Sparrow

Los Angeles, California, United States (Remote)
3 Months ago
Intrepid Studios,  Inc  - Senior Level Designer

Intrepid Studios, Inc

San Diego, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Adobe - Product Security Engineer

Adobe

Seattle, Washington, United States (On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
pentair - Facilities Maintenance Technician, 1st Shift

pentair

Moorpark, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Gravity Well - Environment Artist - Hard Surface

Gravity Well

(Remote)
7 Months ago
Demiurge Studios - Senior Gameplay Designer, PvP Shooter

Demiurge Studios

(Remote)
6 Months ago
HoYoverse - Quest Designer

HoYoverse

Singapore (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Demiurge Studios - Lead Game Designer

Demiurge Studios

(Remote)
4 Weeks ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Eemshaven, Groningen, Netherlands

Philips - Internship Full Stack developer in Finance Domain

Philips

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Adyen - Inventory Control and Quality Assurance Manager

Adyen

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Tesla - Sales Advisor

Tesla

Goes, Zeeland, Netherlands (On-Site)
3 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Senior Manager, International Indirect Taxes

The Walt Disney Company

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
fluence - Sales Manager_Benelux

fluence

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
Tesla - Tesla Roadside Support Specialist - Amsterdam (Arabic Speaking)

Tesla

North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Tesla - Deployment Manager - Supercharging

Tesla

North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Tesla - Service Preparation Technician

Tesla

Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Philips - Program Manager - Design for Excellence

Philips

Best, North Brabant, Netherlands (On-Site)
1 Week ago
PwC - Senior Associate Indirect Tax - Public Interest Entities (kantoor Amsterdam & Rotterdam)

PwC

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
8 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Facilities Management Jobs

Microsoft - Critical Environment Energy Marshall

Microsoft

Busan, Busan, South Korea (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Tesla - Elevator Technician

Tesla

Brandenburg, Germany (On-Site)
3 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Irrigation Pipefitter

The Walt Disney Company

Anaheim, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Service Engineer (Electrical, Mechanical & Environmental Engineering)

The Walt Disney Company

Hong Kong (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Tesla - Technical Service Mechanical Engineering Internship

Tesla

Brandenburg, Germany (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Evolution  - Equipment Support Specialist (On-site on Canning, Ezeiza)

Evolution

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (On-Site)
12 Months ago
Google - Data Center Facilities Technician

Google

South Carolina, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Tesla - HVAC Technician

Tesla

Grünheide (Mark), Brandenburg, Germany (On-Site)
3 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Electrician - Full Time

The Walt Disney Company

Anaheim, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Tesla - Office Coordinator

Tesla

Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France (On-Site)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded