Data Center Facilities Technician I, Mechanical

4 Months ago • 2-4 Years • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician I, Mechanical is responsible for inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems, including piping and mechanical components. This role involves providing daily assistance to senior technicians, reading blueprints/schematics, conducting system tours, and assessing their working order. Responsibilities include managing the uptime and maintenance of water pumps, treatment systems, HVAC, and control and monitoring systems. The technician will operate, monitor, and respond to abnormal conditions in data center facilities systems and equipment, supporting the startup, commissioning, and integration of new mechanical equipment. The role requires a strong understanding of mechanical systems used in data centers and the ability to troubleshoot and solve problems efficiently, while ensuring environmental and safety standards are met.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2 years of mechanical/HVAC experience
  • Ability to lift 50lbs and work at heights
  • Ability to work non-standard hours
  • Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems
Good to have:
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants
  • Knowledge of data center mechanical systems (chillers, AHUs, pumps, CRAC/CRAH)
  • Troubleshooting skills using hand tools and diagnostic equipment
  • Ability to communicate with contractors

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 Mechanical/HVAC experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
  • Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 2 years of experience in maintenance of mechanical/cooling distribution systems or construction/technical environment or 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.

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 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

  • Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and mechanical system components. 
  • 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 water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, 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 mechanical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

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