Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical is responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of low-voltage electrical system distribution within Google's data centers. This role involves monitoring control room information streams, making critical decisions, and developing cost-reduction strategies while improving efficiency. Responsibilities include operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting data center systems and equipment, supporting new equipment integration, and providing operational insights. The technician will track operational characteristics, create monitoring standards and templates, and support the design review process. They'll also respond to abnormal conditions and ensure environmental and safety standards are met.
Must have:
  • 5+ years mission critical facility experience
  • Electrical Distribution Systems expertise
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Data center system maintenance
  • Monitoring and responding to abnormal conditions
Good to have:
  • EU driving license
  • Experience with installation and commissioning
  • Knowledge of mechanical systems
  • Excellent communication and people management skills

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other verifiable training in a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience working in mission critical facility maintenance and operations.
  • Experience in Electrical Distribution Systems (e.g., High Voltage, Low Voltage, Protection and Controls, Power Quality).
  • Experience in troubleshooting the Electrical Distribution Systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Full driving license (EU valid).
  • Experience planning and executing installation, commissioning, and equipment startup, following industry best practices and protocols.
  • Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
  • Understanding of mechanical systems in data center environments and controls/monitoring systems.
  • Excellent people management, and communication skills, and 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).

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.

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 12`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

  • Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of low voltage electrical system distribution. Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions.
  • Develop approaches to reduce operational costs while improving efficiencies.
  • Operate, monitor, and maintain data center facilities systems and equipment, and respond to abnormal conditions. Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
  • Provide tracking and trending of operational characteristics, while also providing operational and maintenance insights into the design review process.
  • Support standards and produce templates for monitoring power quality, diagnostic, preventive maintenance, and trend logs for data center critical facilities power distribution systems.

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