Data Center Facilities Technician II, Electrical
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.
* 2 years of electrical experience (e.g., electrical testing equipment or
electrical distribution) in an industrial or commercial environment.
* Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders,
and under raised floors.
* Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* 2 years of experience in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or
construction/technical environments.
* Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
* Knowledge of electrical systems used in a data center environment (e.g.,
Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units,
PDU/PMM units).
* Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade
work on the data center 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 operate, monitor, and support physical facilities
conditions for Google's data centers.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated
electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative,
team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful
data centers.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate
mission-critical decisions. Responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and
troubleshooting of low voltage electrical system distribution.
* Develop approaches to reduce operational costs while improving efficiencies.
* Operate, monitor, and maintain data center facilities systems, equipments,
and respond to abnormal conditions.
* Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems
into facilities infrastructure.
* Provide tracking and trending of operational characteristics, while also
providing operational and maintenance insights into the design review
process.
