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Senior Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

Senior Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

3 Hours ago • 4 Years + • Facilities Management

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Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Trade school qualification/certification
4+ years experience in relevant technical domain
Troubleshooting electrical distribution systems
High voltage switching operations experience
Control room experience
Excellent communication skills

Good to have:

Experience in planning and executing installations
Knowledge of electrical distribution systems
Understanding of data center electrical/mechanical systems
Experience with controls/monitoring systems

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Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Trade school qualification or certification in a related field.
4 years of experience in a HVAC, electrical, controls, water chemistry, generators, mechanical, or other similar technical domain.
Experience troubleshooting for electrical distribution systems and in high voltage switching operations.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience planning and executing installation, commissioning, and equipment startup following industry best practices and protocols.
Experience working in the control room for critical operations.
Knowledge of electrical distribution systems (e.g., high voltage, low voltage, protection and controls, power quality).
Understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in data center environments and controls/monitoring systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication and people skills, with the ability to prioritize work efficiently.

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 challenging warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our data centers up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

In this role, you will deploy, operate, and maintain a scalable and secure Google data center infrastructure safely, reliably, and efficiently.

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

Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions.
Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical distribution systems and power monitoring.
Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
Follow the site’s environmental health and safety policies.
Direct the execution of complex controls system programming, start-up, commissioning, documentation, and full facilities turnover on assigned projects.

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