Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical

About the job

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical, mechanical engineering, and HVAC systems in the world. Facilities Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions. Duties 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 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 approaches to reducing operational costs while improving 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 recovery time from failures.

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
• Manage the uptime and maintenance of UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new electrical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

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

• 2 years of experience in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environment or a related field.
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
• 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).
• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting using standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
• Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrades on data center systems.