Data Center Plant Engineer, Electrical

Google; Muskogee (OK); On-site; USD 138,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Data Center Plant Engineer, Electrical in Muskogee, OK, at a mid level. The role centers on maintaining and improving electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment, reading blueprints, and supporting senior technicians.

You will supervise operations, coordinate with contractors, and help minimize costs while ensuring safety and reliability. The role requires extensive field experience, strong problem-solving, and willingness to work non-standard hours.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or trade certification or equivalent practical experience required.
• 9 years of experience with electrical and mechanical systems used in data centers or industrial environments.
• 9 years of experience with electrical infrastructure and mission critical facility maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Test, validate, improve and certify new processes for critical equipment operation in the data center domain.
• Lead compliance activities for data centers globally and ensure alignment with project guidelines.
• Monitor data center systems operations and coordinate response to excursions and outages.
• Ensure sites follow facility maintenance programs and improve policies globally.
• Develop strategies to minimize operational costs, improve efficiency and reduce environmental impact at sites.

Skills

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

Contractor communication

Problem solving

Shift work

Education

Associate's degree or trade certification

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

Job description

Data Center Plant Engineer, Electrical

Company: Google

Location: Muskogee, OK, USA

Level: Mid

This role is not eligible for U.S. immigration sponsorship.

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience with electrical and mechanical systems used in an industrial or data center environment (e.g., feeders, transformers, generators, switchgear, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems, Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS)/Static Transfer Switch (STS) units, Power Distribution Unit (PDU)/Power Management Module (PMM) units, chillers, air handling units, and CRAC units).
• 9 years of experience with electrical infrastructure, and other mission critical facility maintenance and operational experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced education in a related field.
• Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.
• Adaptability and prompt problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work non‑standard hours, including working weekends, holidays, and on shift‑based schedules.

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 a master of exceptional 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.

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $138,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive efforts to test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for critical complex equipment operation for data center domain of expertise.
• Lead efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
• Drive efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure effective response to any excursions.
• Drive efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting strength in improvement to said policies and programs.
• Lead the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with driving site‑level development of programs and initiatives.

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