Data Center Facilities Technician I, Electrical

Google Malaysia Sdn Bhd; Sungai Buloh; On-site; MYR 72,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Malaysia Sdn Bhd operates data center facilities with advanced electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems. Facilities Technicians monitor, inspect, and repair data center components, reading blueprints and guiding junior technicians to maintain optimal performance.

They strive to reduce operational costs while upholding environmental and safety standards, manage outages, and improve overall efficiency across power and cooling systems.

Qualifications

• Associated degree or certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of electrical experience in industrial or commercial environments.
• Able to lift up to 50 lbs (23 kg) and use PPE and safety equipment per guidelines.
• Able to work non-standard hours and shifts.

Responsibilities

• Co-Lead and ensure electrical system compliance including local legal and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policies.
• Work proactively for ensuring electrical system reliability.
• Co-Lead the commissioning activities on Level 4 functional test and Level 5 Integrated System Test (IST).
• Manage and support electrical system operation.
• Co-Lead the electrical system maintenance program including preparing the technical specification, procurement and maintenance vendor performance management.

Skills

Material handling

PPE usage

Shift work

Education

Associate's degree / related technical training

Tools

Electrical testing equipment

Electrical distribution systems

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of electrical experience (e.g., electrical testing equipment or electrical distribution) in industrial or commercial environment.
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, the required use of safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications

• Certified electrical competent person/chargeman with Suruhanjaya Tenaga (ST).
• 5 years of experience in the facilities field including operating and maintaining facilities.
• Experience as an electrical engineer or a professional engineer with certification or registered electrical energy manager.
• Familiar with safety rules and regulations associated with operating complex infrastructure.
• Ability to perform maintenance on electrical or controls systems and capable of resolving common system failures on their own.

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.

As a Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers.

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

• Co-Lead and ensure the electrical system compliance including local legal and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policies.
• Work proactively for ensuring electrical system reliability.
• Co-Lead the commissioning activities on Level 4 functional test and Level 5 Integrated System Test (IST).
• Manage and support electrical system operation.
• Co-Lead the electrical system maintenance program including preparing the technical specification, procurement and maintenance vendor performance management.

Google is not a conventional company, and we don’t intend to become one. True, we share attributes with the world’s most successful organizations – a focus on innovation and smart business practices comes to mind – but even as we continue to grow, we’re committed to retaining a small-company feel. At Google, we know that every employee has something important to say, and that every employee is integral to our success. We provide individually-tailored compensation packages that can be comprised of competitive salary, bonus, and equity components, along with the opportunity to earn further financial bonuses and rewards.

Googlers thrive in small, focused teams and high-energy environments, believe in the ability of technology to change the world, and are as passionate about their lives as they are about their work. For more information, visit www.google.com/careers.

At Google, we don’t just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Interested to learn more about diversity at Google? Find out more at http://www.google.com/diversity/.