**Please submit your resume in English \- we can only consider applications submitted in this language.** ### **Minimum qualifications:** * Associate's degree, trade school certification, or other certified training in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. * 7 years of experience in Electrical, Mechanical/HVAC, or Controls/Automation experience in an industrial/commercial environment. * 3 years of experience in a data center or facilities environment. * Ability to work non\-standard hours and work rotations/shifts. ### **Preferred qualifications:** * Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, or Reliability Engineering, or a related field. * 7 years of experience in controls/automation, or construction/technical environment or a related field. * Experience with reliability centered maintenance and engineering. * Experience communicating effectively with all levels of the organization, including executives. * Ability to forecast resource requirements in a data\-driven way. **About the job** ----------------- The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (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 Technical Operations Manager, you will be involved in nearly every aspect of colocation operations of electrical, cooling, and IT infrastructure. You will partner with the Google data center engineering team, hardware operations, network infrastructure and third\-party data center vendors and operators with a focus on operability, maintainability and reliability.The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are various, upbeat, creative, team\-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.**Responsibilities** -------------------- * Demonstrate understanding of best practices, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), efficiency improvements, and site reliability. * Maintain broad understanding of data center infrastructure, including power systems (Electrical), cooling systems (Mechanical), control systems (BMS, PMS), network infrastructure fundamentals and hardware/server operations. * Manage on\-site incidents and emergencies, ensuring a safe working environment. * Identify and implement improvements in operations, working with various teams (GSO, DCOps, NetOps, Security, etc.) and external vendors. * Implement changes effectively within an operational environment, clearly conveying technical and operational information. 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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.