Data Center Plant Engineer, Mechanical
Google · Texas, United States · $138K–$201K/yr
Software Development · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Operate, monitor, and support physical data center facilities, including HVAC, power supply, and cooling systems. Develop strategies to reduce operational costs and improve efficiency while ensuring global compliance and safety standards.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires an associate's degree or trade certification with at least 9 years of experience in HVAC, electrical, or mechanical domains. Must be physically capable of lifting 50 lbs and working in constrained data center environments.
Benefits
Full description
Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 9 years of experience in Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC), electrical, controls, water chemistry, generators, mechanical, or other similar technical domains.
- Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment, and work on platforms, ladders, and under raised floors.
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or advanced education in a related field.
- Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment.
- Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, and troubleshooting utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment.
- Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center 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 a master of exceptional 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.
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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $138000 - $201000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities:
- Deliver efforts to test, validate, improve, and certify new processes and procedures for equipment operation for data center domain of expertise.
- Guide efforts to perform compliance activities for a data center and analyze compliance results for data centers globally. Ensure regional and global teams are complying with project/schedule guidelines and Google design standards.
- Deliver efforts to monitor data center systems operations, control site activities to minimize risk, and to ensure response to any excursions.
- Deliver efforts to ensure sites are following facility, maintenance, and standard programs globally while exhibiting improvement to said policies and programs.
- Guide the development of strategies to keep operational costs to a minimum, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact at a site, along with delivering site-level development of programs and initiatives.
