Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with Mechanical/HVAC systems in mission-critical facility environments (e.g., data centers, hospitals, power plants, or production factories).
- Ability to participate in material handling tasks, including lifting, carrying, or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg ) of equipment, and using safety equipment, ladders, and personal protective equipment (PPE) aligned with guidelines.
- Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts.
- Ability to communicate in English fluently to interact with cross functional stakeholders in this region.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in maintenance of mechanical/cooling distribution systems or construction/technical environments or a related field.
- Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Chillers, Air Handling Units, pumps, and Computer Room Air Conditioning/Computer Room Air Handling (CRAC/CRAH) units).
- Knowledge of meters, devices, and sensors and troubleshooting proficiency using 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.
- Ability to communicate in Bahasa Melayu fluently in order to communicate with local stakeholders.
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.
As a Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for the data centers.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
Responsibilities
- Inspect, maintain, and repair multiple data center systems such as piping and mechanical system components.
- Provide daily assistance to technicians, including interpreting blueprints, schematics, and sequence of operations, conducting system tours, and assessing their working order.
- Manage the uptime and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and control and monitoring systems.
- Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
- Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new mechanical equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
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