Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical
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 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.
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 cutting-edge 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 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, 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.
