Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical

2 Months ago • 2-4 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical, based in Eemshaven, Netherlands, is responsible for inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems, including piping and mechanical components. This role involves assisting senior technicians, reading blueprints, conducting system tours, and assessing operational status. Responsibilities also include managing the uptime and maintenance of water pumps, HVAC, and monitoring systems; responding to abnormal conditions; supporting the integration of new equipment; and ensuring environmental and safety standards are met. The successful candidate will contribute to minimizing recovery time from failures and improving overall data center efficiency.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2 years of HVAC/Mechanical experience
  • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs
  • Knowledge of data center mechanical systems
  • Troubleshooting skills
Good to have:
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants
  • Knowledge of CRAC/CRAH units
  • Experience with blueprints/schematics
  • 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 participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, the required use of safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
  • 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.

The Data Center team operates server, storage and networking systems. Our teams ensure that our customer service level agreements and availability goals are met while maintaining environmental and safety standards, at scale. We manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures, identifying issues while making repairs in emergency situations.

In this role, you will approach complex topics like how we manage the life-cycle of our computing, network, and storage infrastructure and, environmentally-friendly facilities.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an, 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 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.

Similar Jobs

Epic Games - Audio Designer

Epic Games

(On-Site)
2 Months ago
ARHS - AWS Cloud Architect

ARHS

Luxembourg (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Sprinkler - Principal Technical Success Specialist

Sprinkler

United Kingdom (On-Site)
1 Month ago
CAE - Simulator Mechanic 1

CAE

Tampa, Florida, United States (On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
Sprinkler - Senior Technical Success Specialist

Sprinkler

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)
1 Month ago
bytedance - Strategy Manager - Corporate Real Estate

bytedance

Singapore (On-Site)
8 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Special Effects Technician

The Walt Disney Company

Île-de-France, France (On-Site)
3 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Maintenance Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

Anaheim, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Lifeguard

The Walt Disney Company

Chessy, Île-de-France, France (On-Site)
3 Months ago
The Workshop - Data Centre Engineer

The Workshop

Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, Colombia (On-Site)
5 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Gravity Well - Environment Artist - Hard Surface

Gravity Well

(Remote)
8 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Cogen Operator, Walt Disney World

The Walt Disney Company

Florida, United States (On-Site)
7 Months ago
AGBO - Realtime Lighting Technical Director

AGBO

Los Angeles, California, United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
Epic Games - Technical Designer in Animation

Epic Games

(On-Site)
3 Months ago
AGBO - Senior Combat Designer

AGBO

United States (Remote)
3 Months ago
Epic Games - Audio Designer

Epic Games

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Steel City Interactive - Lead Systems Designer

Steel City Interactive

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Illuminia - Senior Business Analyst

Illuminia

Singapore (On-Site)
1 Month ago
liminal experiences - Gameplay Engineer (Unreal)

liminal experiences

(Remote)
2 Months ago
Hazelight - VFX Artist

Hazelight

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden (On-Site)
2 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Eemshaven, Groningen, Netherlands

Varonis Internal - Account Manager

Varonis Internal

Netherlands (On-Site)
2 Months ago
miniclip - Backend developer

miniclip

Netherlands (On-Site)
2 Months ago
PwC - (Senior) Manager Risk Consulting – ESG & Sustainability

PwC

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Mendix - Software Engineer | Widget Framework

Mendix

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands (Hybrid)
1 Year ago
IMC - Java Software Engineer

IMC

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Qualcomm - Benefits Analyst

Qualcomm

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Tesla - Used Car Sales Advisor

Tesla

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Ice berg games - Publishing Producer Intern

Ice berg games

Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Evolution  - Game Presenter / Customer Service / Work Abroad

Evolution

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
7 Months ago
Adyen - Senior Financial Writer

Adyen

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Category Jobs

bytedance - APAC Real Estate Space Planning and Operations Manager

bytedance

Singapore (On-Site)
2 Months ago
FlyQuest - Facilities Coordinator

FlyQuest

Culver City, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Evolution  - Equipment Manager

Evolution

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia (On-Site)
1 Year ago
AppLovin - Office Coordinator

AppLovin

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Google - Program Manager I, Maintenance Planning, Data Center Operations

Google

New Albany, Ohio, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Activate Games - Team Lead (Store Supervisor)

Activate Games

Culver City, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Tesla - Maintenance Supervisor, General Assembly

Tesla

Brandenburg, Germany (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Tesla - Body Shop Maintenance Technician

Tesla

Brandenburg, Germany (On-Site)
4 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Irrigation Pipefitter

The Walt Disney Company

Anaheim, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Senior Show Lighting Designer (15-months)

The Walt Disney Company

Hong Kong (On-Site)
7 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

New York, United States (On-Site)

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)

Taipei City, Taiwan (On-Site)

Kirkland, Washington, United States (On-Site)

Sunnyvale, California, United States (On-Site)

Sunnyvale, California, United States (On-Site)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)

Sunnyvale, California, United States (On-Site)

Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Google

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug