Senior Facilities Technician, Electrical

Google; Saint-Ghislain; Sur place; EUR 55 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Google in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium is seeking a Senior Facilities Technician specializing in electrical systems. The role involves operating, monitoring, and maintaining critical data center systems. Responsibilities include ensuring efficient operational conditions, supporting equipment commissioning, and resolving performance issues.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mechanical or electrical assembly, troubleshooting, and a demonstrated ability to work during non-standard hours. Join a creative team committed to excellence in data center operations.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in maintenance and monitoring of server systems.
• Experience with component-level repairs and troubleshooting on IT equipment.
• Ability to manage data center performance issues in emergencies.

Responsabilités

• Support commissioning and integration of new equipment into facilities infrastructure.
• Inspect, maintain and repair data center systems.
• Monitor uptime and troubleshoot electrical distribution systems.

Connaissances

Assembly of mechanical or electrical systems

Diagnosing and troubleshooting operating systems

Experience with networking protocols

Ability to work non-standard hours

Formation

Associate’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Outils

Data center equipment

Description du poste

Senior Facilities Technician, Electrical

Google, Saint‑Ghislain, Belgium

Experience completing work as directed, collaborating with teammates, and developing knowledge of relevant concepts and processes.

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate’s degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with assembly of mechanical or electrical systems, or performing component‑level repairs and troubleshooting on technical equipment.
• Experience with diagnosing and troubleshooting operating systems, computer hardware, and server hardware.
• Experience with networking protocols.
• Ability to work non‑standard hours, including weekends, night shifts, holidays and on shift‑based schedules as required.

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience in maintenance and monitoring of server systems.
• Experience with performing component‑level repairs and troubleshooting on IT equipment or in a similar role (e.g., systems administration, network deployment engineer, help desk technician, etc.).
• Experience working within a data center or network operation center environment.

About the job

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems in the world. Facilities Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor and support physical facility conditions. Duties include heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution and control and monitoring systems. You regularly inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems such as piping and non‑critical electrical or mechanical components.

As an advocate for best practices, you develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You ensure 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.

The data center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team‑oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Responsibilities

• Support commissioning and integration of new equipment and systems into a new facilities infrastructure.
• Inspect, maintain and repair various data center 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 decisions.
• Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical distribution systems and power monitoring.

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