Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience as a Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer within a critical facility.
Experience managing a mission critical facilities portfolio.
- Master's degree in Engineering or a related field.
- Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
- Understanding of the operations and maintenance of electrical systems in a data center environment.
- Excellent people management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
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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. Facility Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions. Some 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'll provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.
You will 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 lead a team responsible to maintain, and operate sophisticated electrical, mechanical and HVAC systems in a critical facilities environment. You will provide daily assistance across technical teams, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order. You will develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency and ensuring that Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) standards are consistently met. You will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures. You will be responsible for generating ideas, delivering recommendations to C-level executives and driving implementation.
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
- Set and communicate individual and team priorities that support organizational goals. Meet regularly to discuss performance and development, and provide feedback and coaching.
- Ensure team members are following work processes and complying with guidelines and all sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs, while making recommendations for data center improvements.
- Monitor data center systems operation, control site activities to minimize risk, and respond effectively to any excursions or emergency procedures.
- Develop strategies to improve efficiency, minimize cost, and reduce environmental impact, validate and improve processes and procedures for equipment operations, and perform and analyze compliance checks for data centers globally.
- Collaborate with partner teams and project leads to set and implement short and long-term strategies.