Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical

Job Title : Data Center Facilities Technician, Mechanical

Location : Eemshaven, Netherlands

Experience Level : Early

Minimum Qualifications :

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of Mechanical / HVAC experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, with the required use of safety equipment such as limited weight-bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools, and personal protective equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses in accordance with safety and ergonomic guidelines and assessments.
• Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations / shifts.

Preferred Qualifications :

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 include the heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems. You will 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 will 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 will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.

The Data Center team operates server, storage, and networking systems. Our teams ensure that our customer service level agreements and availability goals are met while maintaining environmental and safety standards, at scale. We manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures, identifying issues while making repairs in emergency situations. In this role, you will approach complex topics like how we manage the life cycle of our computing, network, and storage infrastructure and environmentally-friendly facilities.

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.

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