Data Center Facilities Technician

Minimum qualifications:

- Associate's degree, school certification in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with electrical, mechanical and controls systems.
- Ability to lift and move 50lbs of equipment; work on platforms, ladders and under raised floors.
- Ability to work non-standard hours (including on-call rotations, evening and overnight hours), weekends, holidays, and shift-based schedules as required.

Preferred qualifications:

- 3 years of experience in controls/automation or the equivalent in a critical/ construction/ high tech environment.
- Experience in data centers, hospitals, hotel industry, power plants, HV electrical substations, and/or other mission critical facility maintenance and operational experience.
- Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, controls systems, Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, Air handling units and CRAC units.
- Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
- Ability to communicate effectively with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on 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.

In this role, you will design and operate electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and HVAC systems. You will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions. You will 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.

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**:

- Operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions including heating and cooling air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control, and monitoring systems.
- Help inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems, read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
- Develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency, ensuring that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems, and making repairs quickly.
- Develop and maintain our data centers to building Google platforms.
- Manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.