Data Center Facilities Engineer, Electrical (English, Japanese)

4 Months ago • 4-6 Years • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Engineer, Electrical will operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical equipment within a data center environment. Responsibilities include ensuring safety regulations are followed, conducting root cause analysis for service failures, and implementing preventative measures. The role involves coordinating vendor support, executing operational procedures, and providing technical expertise. Additionally, the engineer will contribute to project implementation, develop operational training materials, and improve operational efficiency while minimizing environmental impact. Fluency in English and Japanese is crucial for client relationship management.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years experience in industrial electrical systems
  • 2+ years data center electrical experience
  • Fluent English and Japanese
  • Troubleshooting and repair skills
  • Root cause analysis
Good to have:
  • Data center certifications (CDCP, CDFOM, AOS)
  • Experience with critical electrical systems (generators, UPS)
  • Understanding of mechanical, control, and generator systems

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting electrical systems of industrial facilities.
  • 2 years of Electrical experience (e.g., electrical testing equipment or electrical distribution) in an industrial or commercial environment.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours, including working weekends, holidays, and on shift-based schedules.
  • Ability to communicate in English and Japanese fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Certification related to data center facilities (e.g., CDCP, CDFOM, or AOS).
  • Experience in performing maintenance on critical electrical systems (e.g., generators, UPS systems, ATS/STS units).
  • Understanding and working experience in complex mission-critical facility environments, including data centers, hospitals, production factories, etc.
  • Understanding of multiple disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, control and generator systems used in a data center environment.

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 Engineer, 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 diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Responsibilities

  • Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical equipment in a data center environment. Ensure safety rules and regulations associated with operating infrastructure.
  • Provide root cause analysis, recovery, prevention actions for service failure, continuous improvement on site, operational efficiency, and minimize environmental impact.
  • Prepare and execute operation procedures, respond to work requests, and provide operational and technical expertise in required areas.
  • Coordinate vendor support in repairs and replacements and support project implementation (site acceptance tests, factory acceptance tests, site inspection for defects, etc.).
  • Develop a good understanding of the infrastructure design and sequence of operation. Prepare and conduct training, sharing with the team.

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