Data Center Facilities Specialist

Google Inc.; Midlothian (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Facilities Technician to operate, monitor, and support data center facilities. You will handle heating/cooling, power supply, generators, UPS, electrical distribution, and monitoring systems, inspecting and repairing piping and non-critical components.

The role emphasizes reducing operational costs while ensuring safety and environmental standards, and coordinating with contractors for maintenance or upgrades within a hyperscale data center context.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, data center environment and safety, teamwork, project controls, data center automation, monitoring systems.
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs of equipment, the required use of OSHA standard safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Operations experience

Maintenance

Troubleshooting

Data center safety

Teamwork

Project controls

Data center automation

Monitoring systems

Education

Associates degree

Trade school certification

Related technical field

Equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is seeking a Facilities Technician to operate, monitor, and support data center facilities. You will handle heating/cooling, power supply, generators, UPS, electrical distribution, and monitoring systems, inspecting and repairing piping and non-critical components.

The role emphasizes reducing operational costs while ensuring safety and environmental standards, and coordinating with contractors for maintenance or upgrades within a hyperscale data center context.