Facilities Technician, Data Center, Mechanical

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 verifiable training in a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.- 2 years of experience in operating and maintaining mission critical facilities.
- Experience in performing maintenance on electrical or MEP systems and resolving common system failures.
- Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Certified to handle refrigerant for chiller as a CEM, SCEM, GMAP, water efficiency manager or equivalent.
- Experience in mechanical maintenance of critical large-scale facilities (e.g., Data Centers, Pharma, Medical, or Electrical installations, etc.) including maintenance of UPS systems, generators, and associated devices.
- Excellent understanding of the electrical and mechanical systems used in a data center environment, including: Transformers, Generators, Switch gears, UPS systems, Chillers, Pumps, Cooling towers, Air handling units, CRAC, etc.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with contractors who perform maintenance or projects on these 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.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

**Responsibilities**:

- Inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as ducting, piping, electrical or mechanical components/equipment.
- Provide daily assistance to executive technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working condition.
- Manage maintenance and project work order flow to ensure SLOs are met.
- Ensure a safe working environment by adhering to safety standards and doing risk assessments to determine preventive measures.
- Be responsible for the availability, operation and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, ACMV, UPS, generators, electrical distribution and building management systems.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.