Maintenance and Operations Technician, Mechanical, HVAC (Onderhoudsmonteur)

Minimum qualifications:

• Associate's degree, trade school certification, other verifiable training in a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of Mechanical/HVAC experience in an industrial or commercial environment.
  
• Experience with mechanical maintenance, including fire and safety systems, buildings infrastructure, pumps, tanks, piping, elevators, and cooling systems (e.g., HVAC equipment, chillers, cooling towers).
  
• Ability to communicate in English and Dutch fluently as this is a customer-facing role that requires interactions in English and Dutch to support the client management in the region and local stakeholders.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in the maintenance of mechanical/cooling distribution systems, in a construction/technical environment, or a related field.
  
• Experience in data centers, hospitals, or power plants.
  
• Knowledge of mechanical systems used in a data center environment (e.g., chillers, air handling units, pumps, and CRAC/CRAH units).
  
• Knowledge of meters, devices, sensors, 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.
  

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 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.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions.
  
• Be responsible for the uptime, maintenance, and troubleshooting of various data center systems such as pumps, HVAC, control and monitoring systems, stand-by power generation, and electrical distribution.
  
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and respond to abnormal conditions in the data center facilities systems and equipment.
  
• Lead the execution of complex controls system programming, start-up, commissioning, documentation, and full facilities turnover on assigned projects.
  
• Follow the site’s environmental health and safety policies.
  

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