Data Center Mechanical Facilities Technician

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.
**Minimum qualifications**:

- 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.
- 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 (PPE) like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
- Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in mission-critical facility environments, including data centers, hospitals, production factories, etc. and experience in performing maintenance on critical mechanical systems (e.g. chiller, pump, cooling tower, AHU, water treatment systems).
- Experience in controls/automation or the equivalent in a critical/ construction/high tech environment.
- Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
- Understanding of multiple disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, control and generator systems used in a data center environment.
- Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on systems.

**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.

As a Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving supporrt behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

**Responsibilities**:

- Coordinate the uptime, maintenance, operation, troubleshooting, and repair of mechanical equipment in a data center environment.
- Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order. Prepare and execute operation procedures, respond to work request/service failure and provide operational and technical expertise in required areas.
- Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure, and coordinate vendor support for repairs and project implementation.
- Develop an understanding of the infrastructure design and sequence of operation. Prepare and conduct training/sharing to the team. Ensure compliance with all site environmental health and safety policies.
Provide tracking and trending operational characteristics.
- Lead and work 12 hour rotating shifts including weekends and holidays.

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