Electrical Design Lead
Full-time
Spencer Ogden
Role Overview
- Lead the creation and evolution of Reference Designs for hyperscale and retail data centre product tracks, ensuring scalability, resilience, cost efficiency, and compliance with global and regional standards.
- Partner closely with Design Delivery, Construction, Operations, and suppliers to enable high?density, liquid?cooled, hyperscale?ready facilities.
- Act as a subject matter expert across regions, driving innovation in electrical systems, advanced monitoring, and liquid cooling integration.
- Own and maintain electrical Reference Designs for hyperscale and retail data centre offerings.
- Design resilient, scalable electrical distribution and substation systems for high?density environments.
- Ensure compliance with regional electrical codes and internal standards (IEC, NEC, CCC, etc.).
- Conduct engineering analysis, feasibility studies, and value engineering to optimise cost and performance.
- Support localisation of designs alongside Design Delivery and Construction teams.
- Partner with Operations to drive reliability, maintainability, and continuous improvement.
- Review and approve critical equipment submittals, FATs, and acceptance testing.
- Work closely with suppliers and OEMs to specify and qualify electrical equipment.
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for electrical system issues.
- Drive innovation and R&D, including liquid cooling integration and advanced monitoring technologies.
- Produce high?quality technical documentation, specifications, schematics, and white papers.
- Act as a subject matter expert across regions and lead technical forums.
- Champion health, safety, environmental, information security, and regulatory compliance standards.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience, including 5+ years in mission?critical facilities.
- Strong knowledge of data centre electrical systems, including:
- Medium? and high?voltage distribution
- UPS systems, diesel generators, switchgear, PDUs, ATS/STS, VFDs
- High?voltage substations
- Solid understanding of regional electrical codes and standards (IEC, NEC, CCC, etc.).
- Experience with controls systems and system integration.
- Proven ability to take new designs and technologies from concept through deployment.
- Experience managing suppliers, OEMs, and factory acceptance testing.
- Proficiency with tools such as AutoCAD, Revit, and BIM.
Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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