Data Center Facilities Technician II, Controls (Dutch)

Google Inc.; Groningen; On-site; EUR 68,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

15% bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Facilities Technician to operate, monitor, and maintain data center facilities in the Netherlands. You will inspect, repair, and optimize critical systems, reading blueprints and assisting senior technicians while adhering to safety standards.

The role requires Dutch fluency and familiarity with PLC/SCADA controls, with a focus on cost-effective, reliable facilities operations in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or equivalent practical training in a technical field.
• 2 years of experience in Controls (PLC, SCADA) in industrial or commercial environments.
• Experience in a critical operations environment.
• Ability to perform material handling and work on platforms, ladders, and raised floors.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and shifts.
• Fluent Dutch communication for day-to-day operations with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical components.
• Read blueprints/schematics and provide daily assistance to senior technicians.
• Develop approaches to reduce costs while improving data center efficiency.
• Ensure environmental and safety standards are met and repair issues quickly.
• Manage performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time in emergencies.
• Operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for data centers.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems.

Skills

Dutch fluency

2 years in controls (PLC/SCADA)

critical operations experience

manual handling & working on platforms

ability to work non-standard hours

team collaboration

Education

Associate's degree or relevant technical training

Tools

PLCs

SCADA

Job description

Early

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

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other verifiable training in a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in Controls (eg. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Experience working in a critical operations environment.
• Ability to perform material handling (lifting/shifting) and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.
• Ability to communicate in Dutch fluently to engage in day-to-date operations, and with colleagues.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in execution/planning with manufacturers equipment and industry protocols, installation, commissioning, and operations.
• Experience in maintenance of control systems in critical systems environment.
• Knowledge of electrical/mechanical/cooling systems used in a critical industries environment.
• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
• Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.

About the job

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (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 AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.
We're behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Netherlands: €68000 - €69500 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .
Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) management.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
• Control, monitoring, logging, and alarming systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.