Data Center Facilities Electrical Technician

Google Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Facilities Technician to operate, monitor, and support electrical and mechanical systems across our data centers. You will inspect, maintain, and repair critical data center components, ensuring uptime and safety while adhering to environmental standards.

Responsibilities include reading blueprints, assisting senior technicians, and coordinating with contractors. This role supports the AI and Infrastructure teams delivering scalable, reliable computing power worldwide.

Qualifications

• Associate degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of electrical experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs (23 kg) and use safety equipment per guidelines.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and rotating shifts.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems.
• Provide daily assistance reading blueprints/schematics and tours of systems.
• Manage uptime and maintenance of UPS, generators, distribution, and control systems.
• Operate, monitor, and respond to abnormal conditions in facilities systems.

Skills

Electrical experience

Safety procedures

Material handling

Non-standard hours

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Trade school certification

Tools

Electrical meters

Diagnostic equipment

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 participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, required use of safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environment or a related field.
  
• 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).
  
• 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 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 the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge 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.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems.
  
• Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
  
• Manage the uptime and maintenance of UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems.
  
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
  
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new electrical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.