Data Center Plant Engineer, Electrical
Council Bluffs, IA
Minimum qualifications:
- Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience with electrical and mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., Feeders, Transformers, Generators, Switchgear, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems, Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS)/Static Transfer Switch (STS) units, Power Distribution Unit (PDU)/Power Management Module (PMM) units, Chillers, Air handling units, and CRAC units).
- 10 years of experience with electrical substations, and other mission critical facility maintenance and operational experience.
- 10 years of experience working in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or transmission operations.
Preferred qualifications:
- Ability to communicate with contractors who perform maintenance or upgrade work on the data center systems.
- Ability to adapt along with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work non-standard hours, including working weekends, holidays, and on shift-based schedules.
About the job
The Data Center team operates some of the most sophisticated server, storage and networking systems on the planet. Our teams ensure that our customer service level agreements and availability goals are met while maintaining environmental and safety standards. We manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures, identifying problems while making repairs quickly in emergency situations.You will approach complex topics like how we manage the life cycle of our computing, network, and storage infrastructure, environmentally-friendly facilities. You optimize for efficiency, seeks continuous improvements, communicate recommendations to the executives and drive implementation alongside peers.
Responsibilities
- Monitor Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)/Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) and act as technical lead to drive site-level efficiency programs in collaboration with technicians and management.
- Lead EHS, operations, and maintenance programs with a focus on compliance, mentor Facility Technicians (FTs) to drive continuous program improvements.
- Navigate organizational change by providing site-level feedback, coordinating with subject-matter expert (SME), and managing the execution and closure of technical bugs.
- Direct site teams through Data Center (DC) commissioning and retesting processes, collaborate with Quality teams to resolve site-specific or regional concerns.
- Serve as the regional lead for quality and reliability issues, providing expert design input and technical direction across multiple global sites.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.