Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical, Control Room Operations

1 Month ago • 2-4 Years • Facilities Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical, Control Room Operations, role involves operating, monitoring, and supporting physical facilities conditions in Google's data centers. Responsibilities include inspecting, maintaining, and repairing various data center systems (piping, mechanical components), assisting senior technicians with blueprints and system assessments, managing water pumps, HVAC, and control systems, and responding to abnormal conditions. The role also includes supporting the startup and integration of new mechanical equipment and ensuring environmental and safety standards are met. The ideal candidate will have experience in mechanical/HVAC systems in mission-critical environments and a strong understanding of data center mechanical systems.
Must have:
  • Associate's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2 years of Mechanical/HVAC experience
  • Mission-critical environment experience
  • Ability to work shifts
  • Physical ability for lifting and working at heights
  • Knowledge of data center mechanical systems
Good to have:
  • Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants
  • Knowledge of troubleshooting using diagnostic equipment
  • Ability to communicate with contractors
  • Driving license (Category B)

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.
  • Experience working in mission critical environments.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.
  • Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.

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.
  • Driving license Category B.

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.

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

  • 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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