Data Center Facility Technician, Controls

Socket.dev; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Bonus target

Job summary

Google data centers require a Facilities Technician to operate, monitor, and maintain physical facilities conditions, ensuring HVAC, power, UPS, and distribution systems run efficiently. You will inspect and repair critical infrastructure, read schematics, and support new controls integration across facilities.

The role emphasizes safety, cost reduction, and rapid response to outages, with opportunities to work on pioneering AI infrastructure projects at scale.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or equivalent training in a related field.
• 5 years of experience in Controls/Automation.
• Ability to handle up to 50 lbs and use PPE per OSHA standards.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and shifts.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair data center systems including servers, network equipment, PLCs, SCADA, and access control.
• Read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic and conduct tours of systems to assess operation.
• Control, monitor, log, and alarm data center systems.
• Operate and respond to abnormal conditions in data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment.

Skills

Controls/Automation experience

Scripting languages

Communication with contractors

Education

Associate's degree or technical training

Tools

PLC/SCADA systems

Electrical metering equipment

Job description

Minimum 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 Controls/Automation in an industrial or commercial environment.
  
• 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:

• Industry standard certifications related to system administration (e.g. CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, or Linux system administrator).
• 5 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field.
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories.
• Proficiency in scripting languages.
• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays 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).

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 team 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $105000 - $145000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, PLCs, system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and SCADA management.
• Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
• Control, monitoring, logging, and alarming systems.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
• Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.