Data Center Facilities Technician, 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 in shifts that include weekends and holidays.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in management of vendors/contractors performing construction, maintenance, and upgrading work in a critical environment.
- Experience working in a data center or facility.
- HVAC or electrical license.
- Understanding of the electrical and mechanical systems used in a data center environment including Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, Air handling units, and CRAC units.
- Understanding of the infrastructure design and sequence of operations, including familiarity with managing operational risks.
- Familiar with the safety rules and regulations associated with operating complex infrastructure.

**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**:

- Develop complex operational procedures and execute them as part of a team.
- Perform maintenance on electrical systems and resolve common system failures.
- Adopt continuous improvement to minimize the environmental impact of the operation by helping the team improve operational efficiency.
- Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, control and monitoring 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.