Data Center Facilities Technician (Spanish, English)
Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working with mechanical and cooling systems.
- Ability to lift and move 50lbs of equipment, work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
- Ability to write and speak in Spanish and English fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
- 3 years of experience in controls/automation or the equivalent in a critical/ construction/ high tech environment.
- 3 years of experience in data centers, hospitals, hotel industry, power plants, HV electrical substations, and/or other mission critical facility maintenance and operations.
- 3 years of experience in electrical, mechanical, and controls systems (e.g.,Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, Air handling units, and CRAC units.).
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.
In this role, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions with availability, include heating and cooling air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control, and monitoring systems. You will help inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems, read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order. You'll develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving the overall data center efficiency, ensuring that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems, and making repairs quickly. You will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $63,000-$105,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components.
- Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
- Be responsible for the uptime and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, 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 equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
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