Data Center Facilities Technician II, Controls (Dutch)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google Netherlands data centers require a Facilities Technician to operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions. You will inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems, read blueprints, and assist senior technicians in daily operations.

The role emphasizes safe practices, cost reduction, and efficient response to outages. The position is based in the Netherlands, with typical requirements including PLC/SCADA knowledge, critical operations experience, and availability for

Qualifications

• Minimum technical training or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of controls experience (PLC/SCADA) in industrial or commercial settings.
• Experience in critical operations environments.
• Ability to perform material handling and work on platforms/raised floors.
• Willingness to work non-standard hours and shifts.
• Fluent Dutch communication for day-to-day operations.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems including PLC/SCADA components.
• Read blueprints/schematics and assist senior technicians daily.
• Control, monitor, log, and alarm data center systems.
• Operate and respond to abnormal conditions in facilities equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment.

Skills

Controls experience

Critical operations

Dutch language fluency

Material handling

Non-standard hours

Team & collaboration

Education

Associate's degree / technical training

Tools

PLC/SCADA experience

Job description

• 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.

Minimum qualifications

• 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.
• Scripting language proficiency.
• 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 centre 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

Responsibilities

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• 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.

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