Data Center Facilities Technician - Mechanical

• Responsible for the uptime, maintenance, operation, troubleshooting, and repair of mechanical equipment in a data center environment. Provide root cause analysis (RCA), recovery and prevention actions for service failure.
• Prepare and execute operation procedures, respond to work request/service failure and provide operational and technical expertise in required areas.
• Lead/support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure, and coordinate vendor support for repairs and project implementation. 
• Improve site water usage effectiveness (WUE) and power usage effectiveness (PUE), operational efficiency, and minimize environmental impact.
• Ensure compliance with all site environmental health and safety policies.

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of Mechanical/HVAC experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Experience with data center equipment/environments (e.g., chillers, cooling tower, fire system, air handling units).
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, 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 differing work rotations/shifts.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in maintenance of mechanical/cooling distribution systems or construction/technical environment or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in operating and maintaining mission critical facilities (data centers, hospitals, pharma, semiconductor, refineries, power plants, etc.).
• Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., chillers, air handling units, pumps and CRAC/CRAH units).
• Ability to perform maintenance on mechanical or MEP systems and capable of independently resolving common system failures.
• Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.

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 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.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of Mechanical/HVAC experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
• Experience with data center equipment/environments (e.g., chillers, cooling tower, fire system, air handling units).
• Ability to participate in material handling tasks such as lifting, carrying or moving up to 50 lbs (23 kg) of equipment, 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 differing work rotations/shifts.