Data Center Controls Facilities Technician
Application completed on Google
About This Role
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
* Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training
in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
* 5 years of experience in Controls/Automation in an industrial or commercial
environment.
* Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying
or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, the required use of safety
equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools
and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses in accordance
with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
* Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* Industry certifications (e.g., CompTIA Network+, Security+, ISA Certified
Control Systems Technician (CCST), vendor-specific training).
* Experience in a critical environment such as a data center, power plant,
hospital, or industrial facility.
* Experience with Building Management System/Power Management System (BMS/PMS)
platforms (e.g., Rockwell, Schneider Electric, Siemens).
* Proficiency in troubleshooting PLCs, Human-Machine Interface (HMIs), and
associated control devices and understanding of data center power and cooling
systems and how control systems interact with them.
* Excellent communication, problem-solving and collaboration skills.
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.
As a Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical
facilities conditions for our data centers.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google
customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and
Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our
customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users
worldwide.
We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering
the development of our AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to
global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to
build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of
world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of
our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center
operations, systems research, and much more.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers,
network equipment, Product Life Cycle (PLCs), system administration, access
control, alarm investigation, and Supervisory control and data acquisition
(SCADA) management.
* Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read
blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of
systems, and assess their working order.
* Control, monitoring, logging, and alarming systems.
* Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data
center facilities systems and equipment.
* Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and
systems into facilities infrastructure.
