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 Google's data centers.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems.

• 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 UPS, generators, electrical distribution, 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 electrical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.

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 in maintenance of electrical distribution systems or construction/technical environments, or a related field.

• Experience with electrical distribution systems (e.g., high voltage, low voltage, protection and controls, and power quality).

• Experience working in mission critical facility maintenance and operations.

• Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.

• Ability to communicate in Dutch and English fluently, to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience planning and executing installation, commissioning, and equipment startup, following industry best practices and protocols.

• 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.