Minimum qualifications: - Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of experience in Controls/Automation in an industrial or commercial environment. - Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts. - Ability to lift and move 50 lbs of equipment under raised floors, and the required use of OSHA standard safety equipment such as limited weight bearing work platforms, ladders, step stools and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) like safety harnesses. Preferred qualifications: - Industry standard certifications related to system administration (e.g., CompTIA A, CompTIA Network, CompTIA Security, Certified Windows or Linux system administrator). - 5 years of experience in controls/automation, construction/technical environment, or a related field. - Experience in data centers, hospitals, power plants, or laboratories. - Experience in scripting language. - Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, relays and troubleshooting, utilizing standard hand tools, digital metering, or calibration/diagnostic equipment. - 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. As a Data Center Facilities Technician, you will operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions for our data centers. 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. - Inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as servers, network equipment, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), system administration, access control, alarm investigation, and SCADA management. - Provide daily assistance to technicians as you read blueprints/schematics/ladder logic/sequence of operations, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order. - Control, monitor, log, and alarm systems. - Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment. - Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new controls equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.