Data Center Plant Engineer, Electrical

Google; The Dalles (OR); On-site; USD 138,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems in the world. Facilities Technicians at Google data centers monitor, inspect, and support physical facilities, including power, cooling, and infrastructure components.

This role emphasizes safety, cost efficiency, and reliability, with on-site leadership during outages and collaboration with global engineering to implement robust solutions.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of facilities experience in a critical environment.
• Experience with electrical infrastructure, generators, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with SCADA and electrical safety.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective leadership for critical system troubleshooting and repairs.
• Respond to data center events and alarms as escalation point.
• Monitor plant efficiency (PUE/WUE) and act as onsite technical lead.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams to implement technical changes.
• Work with design engineers to discuss new infrastructure with an operational mindset.

Skills

SCADA

Electrical systems

Troubleshooting

Power distribution

Data center ops

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent in a technical field

Job description

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 in facilities within a critical environment.
• Operations experience in mission-critical environments (e.g., data centers, power generation, refinery, semiconductor fabrication, or chemical processing).
• Experience with electrical infrastructure systems, generators, and technical troubleshooting.
• Experience with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and electrical safety.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
• Experience with project management, project planning, and program administration.
• Knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
• Knowledge of electrical engineering principles and electrical safety codes.
• Effective people management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.

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.

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.

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

US: $138000 - $200000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Provide effective leadership for successful critical system troubleshooting, unit commissioning, and repairs or replacements.
• Respond to critical data center events and alarms, acting as a point of escalation for operational issues.
• Monitor plant efficiency (e.g., PUE/WUE) at a data center, acting as an onsite technical lead to drive site-level programs.
• Interact with global engineering teams to investigate, define solutions for, and implement changes to address highly technical challenges.
• Work with design engineers and bring an operational mindset to discussions around new infrastructure and technology.

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 .