Google Hiring for Data Center Facilities Technician at Bridgeport, AL Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Associate’s degree, trade school certification, training certification in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5 years of experience in electrical, mechanical/HVAC, or controls in an industrial or commercial environment
- Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants, working with critical infrastructure
- Ability to communicate effectively with our extended workforce who perform maintenance or upgrade work on systems
- Ability to learn quickly and address issues as they arise during normal working hours or when on-call
- Ability to work non-standard hours and shifts that may include weekends and holidays
About the job
The Data Center team designs and operates electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and HVAC systems. In this role, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions. This includes responsibility for heating and cooling air and water, power supply, generators, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems.
In this role, you will help inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components. You’ll provide daily assistance to executive technicians, reading blueprints/schematics, conducting tours of systems, and assessing working orders. You will develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You’ll ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly in emergency situations or abnormal conditions. You will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures.
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 such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components.
- Provide daily assistance to executive technicians by reading blueprints/schematics, conducting tours of systems, and assessing working orders.
- Be responsible for the uptime and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and ontrol and monitoring systems.
- Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
- Support startup, commission, and integration of equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
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.