Data Center Electrical Engineer
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Remote location: Finland.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
- Experience supporting construction projects, within an international working environment.
- Experience working with data center equipment/environments including switchgear, generators, controls, security monitoring systems, fire safety systems.
- Experience in facility electrical systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Understanding of start up/commissioning processes.
- Understanding of standard practices in the design and construction industry.
- Ability to build excellent relationships and deliver on action-orientated tasks.
- Excellent requirement gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to travel up to 15% of the time as needed.
About the job
Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.
The DCS Electrical Engineer will (EE) provide field electrical engineering support and issue resolution for the campus (Finland), supporting the DCS Technical Program Manager (TPM) in the localised design and delivery of the projects in line with the schedule, cost, quality, technical compliance and safety requirements.
In this role, you will be the primary contact between Google, the Project Management Consultancy (PMC), the AE and the Specialist Contractors (SPC), and coordinate with the PMC’s ORs and SPC’s engineers for all electrical field engineer efforts. You will be responsible for overseeing the appointed SPC’s electrical installation activities and ensuring that the construction operations and SPC’s performance is in compliance with project EHS, quality and schedule requirements, whilst maintaining effective relationships when interfacing with project stakeholders. You will be able to identify the workload at all times while consequently engaging/managing specific discipline Owner Representatives (ORs) to support the EE in the delivery of projects as per above mentioned expectations.
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
- Drive project electrical outcomes of issues and scope as a key contributor, integrating feedback from multiple stakeholders when necessary. Provide electrical technical leadership resolving critical field issues.
- Contribute to project electrical scoping and direction, and manage project electrical priorities and allocation of technical resources within the project.
- Provide technical leadership to the projects, support and optimize project design, scope, schedule, quality, commissioning, and safety for electrical discipline. Provide feedback to the central partner teams on possible improvements.
- Troubleshoot advanced electrical system events, and escalate only the most complex issues.
- Contribute to the development of cross-project, cross-functional, and cross-organizational procedures and ensure alignment of the electrical engineer’s work with multiple teams/projects.
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