Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical

About This Role

This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. 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, including heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems. As a Mechanical Technician, you will ensure 24/7 reliability of the physical infrastructure, operating, monitoring, and supporting critical mechanical systems for data center performance.

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
• Regularly help inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components
• Develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency
• Ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly
• Manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures in emergency situations or abnormal conditions

Requirements

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of Mechanical/HVAC experience in an industrial or commercial environment
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment
• Required use of safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments
• Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts

Nice to have:

• 5 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)