Data Center Facilities Technician II, Mechanical

1 Month ago • 2-4 Years • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician II, Mechanical role involves operating, monitoring, and maintaining critical data center systems. Responsibilities include HVAC, power supply, generators, UPS systems, and electrical distribution. Technicians troubleshoot issues, perform repairs, and ensure environmental and safety standards are met. They also assist senior technicians, read blueprints, conduct system tours, and contribute to cost reduction and efficiency improvements. In emergency situations, they manage performance issues and outages to minimize downtime. The role requires a strong understanding of mechanical systems, including pumps, cooling towers, and chillers, and the ability to work non-standard hours, including shifts and weekends.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2 years of relevant experience
  • Mechanical maintenance expertise
  • HVAC, cooling systems knowledge
  • Ability to lift 50 lbs, work at heights
  • Troubleshooting and repair skills
  • Shift work flexibility
Good to have:
  • Data center experience
  • UPS, generator maintenance
  • Blueprint reading
  • Controls system programming
  • Safety and environmental compliance

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, other verifiable training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or Controls/Automation experience in an industrial/commercial environment.
  • Experience with mechanical maintenance, including Fire and Safety Systems, Buildings Infrastructure, Pumps, Tanks, Piping, Elevators, and Cooling Systems (e.g., HVAC equipment, Chillers, Cooling Towers).
  • Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment, 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 mechanical maintenance of critical large-scale facilities (e.g., Data Centers, Pharma/Medical/Electrical installations) including maintenance of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems, generators, and associated devices.
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
  • Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and controls systems including Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, or commercial Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) units.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours including, shift-based schedules, weekends, and holidays.

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.

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.
  • Responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of various data center systems such as pumps, Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC), control and monitoring systems, stand-by power generation, and electrical distribution.
  • Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
  • Lead the execution of controls system programming, start-up, commissioning, documentation, and full facilities turnover on assigned projects.
  • Follow the site’s environmental health and safety policies.

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