Data Center Facilities Technician, Stand-by Power

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other verifiable training in a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
  
• 2 years of Power generation systems experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Experience working in the control room for critical operations.
• Troubleshooting experience for power generation systems, mechanical and HVAC systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience investigating failures and performing data analysis.
• Knowledge on Cooling Systems ( , HVAC equipment, Chillers, Cooling Towers) Mechanical systems ( , Fire and Safety Systems, Pumps, Tanks, Piping).
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to perform maintenance or projects on the systems.
  
  
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new processes, procedures, and equipment.
  
  
• Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.
  
  

About the jobThe 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

• Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Stand by Power system (Generators and systems associated), aleatory water pumps and water treatment systems, HVAC, and Control and Monitoring Systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
• Produce standards and templates for global control/monitoring system analysis, diagnostic, preventive maintenance, and trend logs for data center critical facilities systems.

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