Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

Minimum qualifications:

• Trade school qualification or certification in a related field.
  
• 1 year of experience in a HVAC, electrical, controls, water chemistry, generators, mechanical, or other similar technical domain.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in a data center or critical facilities environment.
  

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 designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $66,500-$100,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical complex equipment operation for data center domain of expertise, with some guidance.
  
• Perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers, with some guidance.
  
• Help monitor Data Center systems operations, with regular guidance, control site activities to minimize risk, and respond effectively to any excursions.
  
• Incorporate elementary subdomain knowledge and experience to identify data center design improvements to optimize equipment and operations for next generation data centers.
  
• Help monitor plant efficiency with regular guidance and ensure subsystems are being operated most efficiently.. Work collaboratively in a team setting to maximize equipment reliability while maintaining a low equipment downtime percentage.