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X This role is not eligible for U.S. immigration sponsorship.
Minimum qualifications: - Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 9 years of years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical/Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC), or controls experience in an industrial/commercial environment.
- 3 years of experience in a data center or facilities environment.
- Experience managing incident response, troubleshooting, or emergency operations for critical facility infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications: - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, or Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including executives.
- Experience with reliability centered maintenance and in engineering.
- Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data-driven way.
About the jobThe 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 Technical Operations Manager, you will be involved in nearly every aspect of co-location operations for our electrical, cooling, and IT infrastructure. You will partner with the Google data center engineering teams, hardware operations, network infrastructure, and third-party data center vendors and operators with a focus on operability, maintainability, and reliability. You will represent the operations organization, and will be responsible to ensure operability, maintainability, and reliability are critical criteria for Google assets.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $138000 - $200000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits
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Responsibilities - Drive the continuous improvement and certification of critical equipment operations, partnering with third-party vendors to validate and optimize site-level procedures.
- Advocate for global compliance initiatives, analyzing cross-regional data and holding external partners accountable to Google's rigorous design standards and project schedules.
- Oversee critical facility operations and incident response protocols, proactively mitigating operational risks and directing root-cause analyses for any site excursions.
- Direct third-party facility operations to ensure strict adherence to Google's global maintenance programs, actively identifying opportunities to elevate baseline policies.
- Formulate and execute site-level strategies to optimize operational expenditure (OpEx), maximize infrastructure efficiency, and advance Google's environmental sustainability goals.
