Data Center Plant Engineer, Mechanical
GoogleTexas, United States
Full-time
Salary
$138k–$201k/ annually
Free account to apply · application completed on Google
Salary
$138k–$201k/ annually
Free account to apply · application completed on Google
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
* Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training
in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
* 9 years of experience in Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC),
electrical, controls, water chemistry, generators, mechanical, or other
similar technical domains.
* Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders,
and under raised floors.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* Bachelor’s degree or advanced education in a related field.
* Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment.
* 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). You provide daily assistance to
senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems
and assess their working order.
As a master of exceptional 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.
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.Individual pay is determined by factors
including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $138000 - $201000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Deliver efforts to test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and
procedures for equipment operation for data center domain of expertise.
* Guide efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze
compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global
teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design
standards.
* Deliver efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site
activities to minimize risk, and to ensure response to any excursions.
* Deliver efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and
standard programs globally while exhibiting improvement to said policies and
programs.
* Guide the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum,
improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with
delivering site-level development of programs and initiatives.
