Our client is a global technology giant known for its search engine, innovative software, and digital services. It started as a research project, focusing on organizing information, and has since grown to dominate multiple sectors, including digital advertising, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Its products and platforms are widely used for everyday activities, from browsing the web to managing email and accessing multimedia content. The firm is also a leader in developing smart devices and experimenting with future-forward technologies like autonomous vehicles and quantum computing.
Minimum qualifications:
- Associate’s degree, trade school certification, verifiable training in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of 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 work non-standard hours including, shift-based schedules, weekends, and holidays.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in mechanical maintenance of critical large-scale facilities (e.g., Data Centers, Pharma, Medical, or Electrical installations, etc.) including maintenance of UPS systems, generators, and associated devices.
- Experience investigating failures and performing data analysis.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with contractors who perform maintenance or projects on these systems.
- Full driving license (EU valid).
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 our client’s 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. 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
- Be responsible for the uptime and maintenance of some of the mechanical systems including HVAC, UPS, generators, electrical distribution, and Control and Monitoring Systems.
- Troubleshoot problems, repair infrastructure equipment, and supervise and support contractors to deliver quality service.
- Ensure a safe working environment by adhering to safety standards and doing risk assessments to determine preventive measures.
- Operate, monitor, and maintain data center facilities systems and equipment, and respond to abnormal conditions. Support startup, commissioning, and integration of new equipment and systems into facilities infrastructure.
- Monitor multiple information streams in the control room and make accurate mission-critical decisions.
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Work location: Skien, Norway
Candidates must speak fluently English.
For further information: Contact Sondre Larsen, Talent Gallery AS, mobile +47 9340 5195
