Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training

in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

* 5 years of Mechanical/HVAC experience 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:

* 5 years of experience in maintenance of mechanical/cooling distribution

systems or construction/technical environment or a related field.

* Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.

* Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g.,

chillers, air handling units, pumps and CRAC/CRAH units).

* Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard

hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.

* 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).

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 the 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:

* Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and

mechanical system components.

* Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read

blueprints/schematics/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and

assess their working order.

* Manage the uptime and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems,

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and control and monitoring

systems.

* Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data

center facilities systems and equipment.

* Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new mechanical equipment

and systems into facilities infrastructure.