Data Center Facilities Controls 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, in a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with electrical, mechanical, and controls systems, including: Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgears, Chillers, UPS systems, ATS/STS/PDU/PMM/Air handling and CRAC units.
- Experience with SCADA, Power monitoring system, building monitoring system, PLC programming.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in troubleshooting.
- Knowledge in industrial networking with the ability to coordinate with others in order to determine problems and implement solutions.- Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.
- Ability to follow the site’s environmental health and safety policies.
- Ability to learn quickly and address issues as they arise during normal operations or during emergency conditions.
- Ability to work in varying outdoor temperature conditions, perform material handling (lifting/shifting), and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.

**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**:

- Operate, maintain, troubleshoot and repair electrical equipment in a Data Center environment. Provide root cause analysis (RCA), recovery and prevention actions for service failure.
- 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 (Site acceptance tests, factory acceptance tests, site inspection for defects, etc.).
- Continuous improvement on site WUE and PUE, operational efficiency and to minimize environmental impact. Develop a good understanding of the infrastructure design and sequence of operation_._
- Prepare and conduct training/sharing to the team. Ensure safety rules and regulations associated with operating infrastructure.

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.