Data Center Electrical Facilities Technician

Roles & Responsibilities

Product area

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.

Job description

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).

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.

Additional job description

In this role, you will operate, monitor and support physical facilities conditions with a safety and 24x7 availability, include air-conditioning, cooling water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, and building management systems. You will help inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems, read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order. You will develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency, ensuring that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems, and making repairs quickly.

Qualifications
Job responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical equipment in a data center environment.
• 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 (e.g., Site acceptance tests, factory acceptance tests, site inspection for defects, etc.).
• Improve site Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) and Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), operational efficiency, and minimize environmental impact. Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA), recovery and prevention actions for service failure.
• Provide tracking and trending operational characteristics. Ensure safety rules and regulations associated with operating infrastructure.
• Work 12 hour rotating shifts including weekends and holidays as needed. Be able to work with varying outdoor temperature conditions.

Minimum qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification 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/move 23kg (50lb) of equipment as required. Ability to exert yourself physically over extended periods of time, including frequent bending, kneeling, climbing, pushing/pulling and lifting.
• Ability to work non standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours.

Preferred qualifications

• Electrical Technician's Licence.
• 4 years of experience in operating and maintaining mission critical facilities (data centers, hospitals, pharma, semiconductor, refineries, power plants, industrial, etc.).
• Troubleshooting experience with electrical systems.
• Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and controls systems, including: Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, Air handling units and CRAC units.
• Ability to learn quickly and address issues as they arise during normal operations or during emergency conditions.

Tell employers what skills you have

Troubleshooting
Hospitals
Data Center
UPS Systems
Root Cause Analysis
HVAC
Electrical
Power Plants
Prevention
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Building Management Systems

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