Data Center Facilities Technician

Google; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Singapore is looking for a Facilities Technician. In this role, you will be responsible for operating, maintaining, and repairing electrical systems in data centers. The ideal candidate has at least an Associate's degree and 2 years of electrical experience. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, optimizing operational efficiency, and ensuring safety compliance. This position requires physical capability and the ability to work during non-standard hours.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of electrical experience in industrial or commercial environments.
• Electrical Technician's Licence preferred.
• Experience in operating and maintaining critical facilities is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical equipment in a data center.
• Improve operational efficiency and minimize environmental impact.
• Ensure compliance with safety rules while operating infrastructure.

Skills

Electrical testing equipment

Troubleshooting electrical systems

Ability to lift 23kg

Problem identification

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Electrical distribution systems

HVAC systems

Job description

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification 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/move 23kg (50lb) of equipment as required. Ability to exert yourself physically over extended periods of time, including frequent bending, kneeling, climbing, pushing/pulling and lifting.
• Ability to work non standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours.

Preferred qualifications:

• Electrical Technician's Licence.
• 4 years of experience in operating and maintaining mission critical facilities (data centers, hospitals, pharma, semiconductor, refineries, power plants, industrial, etc.).
• Troubleshooting experience with electrical systems.
• Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and controls systems, including: Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, Air handling units and CRAC units.
• Ability to learn quickly and address issues as they arise during normal operations or during emergency conditions.

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 with a safety and 24x7 availability, include air‑conditioning, cooling water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, and building management systems. You will help inspect, maintain and repair various data center systems, read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order. You will develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency, ensuring that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems, and making repairs quickly.

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 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

• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical equipment in a data center environment.
• Prepare and execute operation procedures, respond to work request/service failure, and provide operational and technical expertise in required areas. Coordinate vendor support in repairs/replacement and support project implementation (e.g., site acceptance tests, factory acceptance tests, site inspection for defects, etc.).
• Improve site Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) and Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), operational efficiency, and minimize environmental impact. Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA), recovery and prevention actions for service failure.
• Provide tracking and trending operational characteristics. Ensure safety rules and regulations associated with operating infrastructure.
• Be able to work with varying outdoor temperature conditions.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.