Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical - Google
Red Oak, TX
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Associate degree, trade school certification, other certified training in a related 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 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
- Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working in data centers, hospitals, hotel industry, power plants, HV electrical substations, or other mission critical facility maintenance and operation.
- Experience with electrical distribution systems (e.g., HV, LV, Protection and Controls, Power Quality).
- Experience troubleshooting electrical distribution systems or generators.
- Knowledge of the electrical and mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g.,Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, Automatic Transfer Switch ATS/Static Transfer Switch STS units, Power Distribution Unit (PDU)/Power Management Module (PMM) units, Chillers, Air handling units, and CRAC units).
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 be responsible for some of the most complex server, storage, and networking systems. You will work to make sure our customers are always taken care of, while maintaining a focus on environmental and physical safety. You will manage data center performance issues and outages, and respond quickly to minimize downtime and operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions for data centers.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $66,500-$100,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components.
- Provide assistance to executive technicians, read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess the working order.
- Be responsible for the uptime and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), UPS, generators, electrical distribution and Control and Monitoring Systems.
- Develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs, whilst improving efficiencies.
- Operate, monitor, maintain and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.