Data Center Facilities Technician

☞ Google

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Update day: 16-11-2025

Location: Saint-Ghislain Hainaut

Category: IT - Software IT - Hardware / Networking Information Technology Executive management Mechanical / Technical Maintenance

Industry: IT

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Associate’s degree, trade school certification, or other verifiable training in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience as a controls/automation technician or in a critical/construction/high-tech environment.
  • Experience in a programming/project management leadership position.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours, including weekends, holidays, and on shift-based schedules.


Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience planning, creating, and implementing complex control system designs for large data center installations.
  • Experience in execution/planning with manufacturers equipment and industry protocols, installation, commissioning, and operations.
  • Experience in negotiations or technical interactions with equipment providers.
  • Understanding of electrical and mechanical systems in data center environments and controls/monitoring systems.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with contractors, engineers, and local/remote management to address issues during normal working hours or when on call.

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). You provide daily assistance to senior technicians as you read blueprints/schematics, conduct tours of systems and assess their working order.

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

  • Take responsibility for the uptime and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, UPS, generators, electrical distribution and Control and Monitoring Systems.
  • Direct the execution of complex controls system programming, starting-up, commissioning, documentation, and full facilities turnover on assigned projects.
  • Produce standards and templates for global control/monitoring system analysis, diagnostic, preventive maintenance, and trend logs for data center critical facilities systems.
  • Create plans/designs autonomously to accomplish business objectives and to fulfill customer requirements for complex troubleshooting and emergency situations at a data center.
  • Perform strategic planning and design for large-scale/complex controls/monitoring upgrades and deployments across all geographical locations.
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.
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Deadline: 31-12-2025

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