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Google Data Center Facilities Technician, Electrical in Changhua County, Taiwan
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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 in electrical (e.g., electrical testing equipment or electrical distribution) in an industrial or commercial environment.
2 years of experience in operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting facility electrical systems.
Ability to work non-standard hours and differing work rotations/shifts.
Preferred qualifications:
Electrical Technician's License.
Experience working in complex mission-critical facility environments, including data centers, hospitals, power plants, or production factories, etc.
Experience performing maintenance on critical electrical systems (e.g., generators, UPS systems, ATS/STS units).
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 communicate effectively with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on these systems.
Ability to communicate in English and Mandarin fluently with local and cross-regional vendors.
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 operate, monitor, and support facilities conditions with a exceptional safety and 24x7 availability, include heating and cooling, air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, and control, and monitoring systems. You will help inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems, read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order. 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.
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.
Regularly inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components.
Provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order.
Be responsible for the uptime and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, UPS, generators, electrical distribution, 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 equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
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