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Google Hiring for Data Center Facilities Technician, Controls at Papillion, NE Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Associate’s degree, trade school certification, verifiable training in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience at journeyman or technician level.
- Experience with electrical, mechanical, and controls systems.
- Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations as required (including working on weekends/holidays and shift rotations).
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in direct controls/automation or the equivalent in a critical/construction/high technology environment.
- 2 years of experience in a programming/project management position, working with building automation systems or power monitoring systems.
- Experience working in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
- Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
- Ability to communicate effectively with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on these systems.
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.
In this role, you will develop creative approaches to reduce operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency, ensuring that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems, and making repairs quickly. Additionally, 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
- Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in facilities systems, electrical, mechanical, building monitoring, and controls.
- Track and trend operational characteristics.
- Manage the uptime and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and Control and Monitoring Systems.
- Provide daily assistance to executive technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
- Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new 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.