Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical

Socket.dev; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 86,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Facilities Technician to design, operate, and support critical data center environments. You will monitor cooling, electrical distribution, and mechanical systems, ensuring reliability, safety, and efficiency across facilities.

You will read blueprints, assist senior technicians, and respond to abnormal conditions while helping implement cost-effective improvements and equipment startups.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or related technical training, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of mechanical/HVAC experience in industrial or commercial environments.
• Experience with electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems, cooling, maintenance, and safety.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and use OSHA PPE; ability to work non-standard hours.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems such as piping and mechanical components.
• Assist technicians by reading blueprints/schematics and evaluating system order.
• Manage uptime and maintenance of water pumps, HVAC, control and monitoring systems.
• Operate, monitor, and respond to abnormal conditions in data center facilities.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new mechanical equipment.

Skills

Lifting & PPE usage

Shift flexibility

Blueprints reading

Education

Associate's degree, trade school certification, or related technical training

Tools

Digital metering

Calibration equipment

Hand tools

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 experience with mechanical/HVAC experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Experience with electrical infrastructure systems, mechanical infrastructure systems, cooling systems, operations, electrical maintenance, electrical safety, monitoring systems, mechanical maintenance.
• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in maintenance of mechanical/cooling distribution systems or construction/technical environment or a related field.
  
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
  
• Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Chillers, Air handling units, pumps and CRAC/CRAH 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.

US: $86000 - $118000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and mechanical system components.
  
• 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 water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC 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 mechanical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.