Google Looking For Plant Engineer, Data Center Operations at Columbus, OH Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

7 years of experience in facilities within a critical environment.

Experience supervising or managing a technical team.

Preferred qualifications:
Licensed or certified in one MEP discipline with experience at journeyman level.

Experience with high voltage electrical substations and/or other mission critical facility maintencance.

Operational experience.

Knowledge of the electrical and mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, Air handling units, and CRAC units).

Ability to speak and write English fluently.

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 executive 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 Data Center Operations Plant Engineer, you will advocate excellent environmental practices. You’ll help the Data Center team design and operate sophisticated and efficient electrical and Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. In this role, you will seek different approaches to reducing operational costs while improving efficiencies through the operation and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems.

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

Provide effective leadership for successful critical system troubleshooting, unit commissioning, and repairs/replacements with minimal supervision in quality, quantity, and timeliness as assigned.

Respond to critical data center events and alarms and be responsible for being a point of escalation on operational issues.

Provide input and direction for site teams in DC commissioning processes and procedures, commissioning or retest requirements following replacement or major repairs, and acts as a site lead by collaborating on quality issues or concerns.

Act as the lead for a site by providing technical direction or input on quality or reliability issues, or multiple sites across the globe or region. Provide design input in domain of expertise.

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.