Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical/Controls

WeAreTechWomen; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking Facilities Technicians to operate and maintain sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in data centers. The role involves ensuring system uptime, performing maintenance, and supporting new equipment integration. Ideal candidates will have relevant certifications and experience in technical environments.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in controls/automation or related field.
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.

Responsibilities

• Ensure uptime and perform maintenance for critical electrical automation and control systems.
• Operate and monitor data center facilities, responding to abnormal conditions.
• Support startup and commissioning of new equipment.

Skills

Knowledge of meters

Proficiency with scripting languages

Communication with contractors

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent

Industry standard certifications

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Industry standard certifications related to system administration (e.g., CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator).
• 2 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field.
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
• Proficiency with scripting languages.
• 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.

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

• Ensure uptime and perform maintenance for critical electrical automation and control systems (SCADA/BMS), including power generation, UPS, electrical distribution, and cooling infrastructure.
• Operate and monitor data center facilities, responding to abnormal conditions by analyzing multiple information streams to make accurate, mission-critical decisions in the control room.
• Support the startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment, alongside tracking and trending operational characteristics for optimal system performance.
• Direct complex controls system programming, startup, commissioning, documentation, and full facilities turnover, adhering to environmental health and safety policies.
• Develop standards for global control system analysis, diagnostics and preventive maintenance, providing operational insights during design reviews.

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.