Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical, Control Room Operations

Requirements:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of Mechanical/HVAC experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Experience working in mission critical environments.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.

Nice to haves:

• 2 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.
• Driving license Category B.

What you'll be doing:

• 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.

Perks and benefits:

• The Data Center team at Google designs and operates sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and HVAC systems.
• Advocate for best practices and develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving data center efficiency.
• Ensure environmental and safety standards are consistently met.
• Manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures.