Data Center Plant Engineer, Electrical

Qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of electrical experience (e.g., electrical testing equipment or electrical distribution) in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs of equipment, the required use of OSHA standard safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses.

• Bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree in a related field.
• 7 years of experience in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environment or a related field.
• Knowledge of electrical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., feeders, transformers, generators, switch gear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units).
• Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.

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 a master of exceptional 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, identify problems and make repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.

US: $115,000 - $166,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits.

• Test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical equipment operation for the data center domain.
• Conduct and analyze compliance activities for data centers globally, ensuring regional and global teams comply with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
• Monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and ensure effective response to any excursions.
• Ensure sites follow facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
• Develop strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with managing site-level development of programs and initiatives.

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We also require English proficiency for all roles unless otherwise stated in the job posting.