Data Center Electrical Facilities Technician

Data Center Facilities Technician I, Electrical

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environments or a related field.
• 2 years of electrical experience (e.g., operations and maintenance of electrical distribution or testing, and commissioning) in facilities such as data centers, hospitals, pharma, semiconductor, refineries, power plants, or industrial environments.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
• Knowledge of electrical systems (e.g., feeders, transformers, generators, switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units).
• 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 like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in data center facility systems and equipment.
• Manage the up-time and maintenance of UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems.
• Prepare and execute operation procedures, respond to work request/service failure and provide operational and technical expertise in required areas.
• Coordinate vendor support in repairs/replacement and support project implementation (site acceptance tests, factory acceptance tests, site inspection for defects, etc.).
• Ensure continuous improvement on site Water usage Effectiveness (WUE) and Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), operational efficiency and to minimize environmental impact.

Experience Level

Mid Level