Data Center Facilities Technician II, Electrical

Google LLC; Skien; On-site; NOK 520,000 - 760,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Facilities Technician for its data centers based in Norway. The role focuses on operating, monitoring, and supporting physical facilities such as electrical and HVAC systems to ensure reliable data center performance.

You will read blueprints, assist senior technicians, and help maintain powering and cooling systems while aiming to reduce costs and uphold safety and environmental standards.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or certified training in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of electrical experience in industrial or commercial environments.
• Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment and work on platforms/ ladders/ under raised floors.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and shifts.

Responsibilities

• Monitor uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of low voltage electrical distribution in data center facilities.
• Develop approaches to reduce operational costs while improving efficiency.
• Operate, monitor, and maintain data center facilities systems and respond to abnormal conditions.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment into facilities infrastructure.
• Provide tracking and insights into operational characteristics for design reviews.

Skills

Electrical experience

Lifting heavy equipment

Shift work readiness

Education

Associate's degree or certified training

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 an industrial or commercial environment.
• Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications

• 2 years of experience in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environments.
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
• Knowledge of electrical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units).
• 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 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.

In this role, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for Google's 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

• Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions. Responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of low voltage electrical system distribution.
• Develop approaches to reduce operational costs while improving efficiencies.
• Operate, monitor, and maintain data center facilities systems, equipments, and respond to abnormal conditions.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
• Provide tracking and trending of operational characteristics, while also providing operational and maintenance insights into the design review process.

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