Minimum qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
* Experience in critical facilities management including facility, technical, and team management.
* Experience managing a mission critical facilities portfolio.
Preferred qualifications:
* Master's degree in an Engineering field.
* Experience as a Facilities Manager or Chief Engineer at a data center or a related environment (industrial, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, or military).
* Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and standards.
* Understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in a data center environment.
* Effective people management and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
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. Facility Technicians at Google data centers operate, monitor, and support physical facilities conditions. Some duties will include heating and cooling of air and water, power supply, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, and control and monitoring systems. You will help inspect, maintain, and repair various data center systems such as piping and non-critical electrical or mechanical system components. You'll provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems, and assess their working order. You will develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You will ensure that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying problems and making repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you will manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize recovery time from failures.
Responsibilities:
* Plan and execute campus operational budgets, expense forecasting, and manage established budgets.
* Set strategy and plan deployments across multiple sites.
* Lead efforts to integrate Google-wide strategy and execution with internal and external business partners.
* Create strategy for cost-effective operations, focused on total cost of ownership.
* Demonstrate critical thinking and innovation in approaching traditional data center and emergent challenges.
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