Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Facilities Management

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Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions at Google data centers. Responsibilities include heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control, and monitoring systems. The role involves inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components. This position will develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. The successful candidate will ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, they will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5 years of Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or Controls/Automation experience
  • Experience with mechanical maintenance (Fire and Safety Systems, Buildings Infrastructure, Pumps, Tanks, Piping, Elevators, and Cooling Systems)
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
  • Ability to work non-standard hours including, shift-based schedules, weekends, and holidays
Good to have:
  • Experience in mechanical maintenance of critical large-scale facilities
  • Experience investigating failures and performing data analysis
  • Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and controls systems
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate's degree, trade school certification, other verifiable training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 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).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in mechanical maintenance of critical large-scale facilities (e.g., Data Centers, Pharma/Medical/Electrical installations) including maintenance of UPS systems, generators, and associated devices.
  • Experience investigating failures and performing data analysis.
  • Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and controls systems including Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, or commercial HVAC units.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to perform maintenance or projects on the systems.
  • 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).

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.
  • Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of various data center systems such as pumps, 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 complex 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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