Data Center Facilities Technician Electrical

WeAreTechWomen; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an Electrical Technician to monitor data centers from a control room. Your role involves troubleshooting problems, performing maintenance and ensuring minimal downtime of critical systems. Ideal candidates will have significant electrical experience and skilled qualifications, ensuring robust operational support for essential infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7 years of electrical experience in industrial or commercial environments.
• Certification as an HVAP/LVAP is preferred.
• Ability to handle lifting and moving equipment up to 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Monitor data centers and ensure quick recovery from failures.
• Perform maintenance and repairs on critical equipment.
• Ensure uptime of electrical distribution systems and respond to abnormal conditions.

Skills

Electrical troubleshooting

Control room operations

Communication

Education

Associate's degree or trade school certification in a technical field

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other verifiable training in a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of Electrical experience (eg. electrical testing equipment or electrical distribution) in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Experience in control room operations for critical systems, with electrical troubleshooting.
• 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
• Ability to work non-standard hours, including weekends and holidays, on shift-based schedules.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certification as an HVAP/LVAP (High Voltage Authorised Person/ Low Voltage Authorised Person).
• Experience planning and executing installation, commissioning, and equipment startup, following industry practices and protocols.
• Understanding of electrical and mechanical systems within data center environments, alongside relevant controls and monitoring systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prioritize work.
• Full driving license (EU valid).

About the job

In this role, you will monitor several data centers from a central control room, ensuring quick response and minimum recovery time from failures. You also troubleshoot problems, perform maintenance and repairs on critical equipment, work collaboratively with internal or external teams to maximize reliability while maintaining a low equipment downtime.

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

• Effective monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions.
• Responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electrical distribution systems and power monitoring.
• 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.
• Direct the execution of controls system programming, starting-up, commissioning, documentation, and full facilities turnover on assigned projects.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.