Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

Requirements:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other verifiable training in a relevant technical 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 and move 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.

Nice to haves:

• 2 years of experience in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environments.
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
• Knowledge of electrical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM 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.

What you'll be doing:

• Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of low voltage electrical system distribution. Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions.
• Develop approaches to reduce operational costs while improving efficiencies.
• Operate, monitor, and maintain data center facilities systems and equipment, and respond to abnormal conditions. Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
• Provide tracking and trending of operational characteristics, while also providing operational and maintenance insights into the design review process.

Perks and benefits:

• 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.
• 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.