Data Center Plant Engineer

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in electrical or mechanical (e.g., electrical testing equipment or electrical distribution or HVAC or Air handling Units) in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Experience working on projects in a data center environment or similar mission critical environment and working with various stakeholders to achieve common goals.
• Experience in electrical or mechanical maintenance and operations of a data center or equivalent environment.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or transmission operations.
• Experience with high voltage electrical substations, or other mission critical facility maintenance and operational.
• Knowledge of the electrical and mechanical systems used in a data center environment (for instance, Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, UPS systems, ATS/STS units, PDU/PMM units, Chillers, Air handling units, and CRAC units).
• Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.
• Ability to support the team with technical problem-solving during non-office hours (via phone or onsite).
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
  
  

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).

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.

The Data Center team operates some of the most sophisticated server, storage and networking systems on the planet. The exceptional teams ensure that the customer service level agreements and availability targets are met while maintaining environmental and safety standards, at scale. We manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures, identifying problems while making repairs quickly in emergency situations.

In this role, you will approach complex topics like how we manage the lifecycle of the computing, network, and storage infrastructure in state of the art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You are a visionary who optimizes for efficiency, seeks continuous improvements, communicates recommendations to executive-level and drives implementation alongside peers.

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

• Monitor data center plant efficiency (PUE/WUE) and act as the technical lead to drive site-level efficiency programs with technicians and managers and provide design input and technical expertise for Electrical, Mechanical, and Control systems.
• Drive a strategic approach to Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS), operations, and maintenance programs to ensure strict compliance with requirements.
• Serve as a mentor and resource for facility technicians (FTs) to facilitate feedback and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead organizational change processes by providing site-level feedback, engage Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and coordinate with cross-functional teams to execute decisions and resolve technical bugs.
• Direct site teams regarding data center commissioning, retesting protocols, and major repairs, act as the primary liaison for quality concerns.
  
  
  

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