Job Description

Job Title:  Electrical Engineer

Location/s: Hybrid with up to 25% Travel to Client site locations

About Us

As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

Play a key role delivering tech sector mega-projects.

Reporting to the DCE Program Director, the Electrical Engineer will drive reviews, coordinate and provide key technical input during site due diligence, detailed design and/or construction administration phases of the data centre project.

This position will collaborate and manage internal and external resources for the design review, coordination ensuring compliant delivery of discipline-specific systems aligning with Client and site-specific requirements.

Role Accountabilities

As the Electrical Engineer, the candidate provides key input to the Client, organizations and stakeholders and is responsible for leading and/or contributing to workgroups with representatives from AE firms, other disciplines and other key stakeholders within the Client. This position requires a detailed understanding of data centre electrical design, controls and operational experience.

The Electrical Engineer will be responsible for:

• Lead and direct consultants in the design review and coordination of the electrical systems with other disciplines, associated power and overall electrical topology for our datacenter builds.
• Responsible for leading and/or contributing to electrical workgroups with representatives from consulting firms along with key stakeholders within the Client.
• Review all power system designs during the design stages, equipment procurement, bidding, manufacturing, delivery, and installation on site to ensure compliance.
• Support resolution of issues raised by the construction teams and various stakeholders.
• Interface closely with procurement team, the manufacturers, and the global and local engineering teams to deliver the electrical solutions needed for each project.
• Responsible for review of specification and design review, detailing the sequence of operation for the electrical systems and overall drawings and specifications for our electrical topology.
• Technical review and analysis of the lease and colocation datacenter space from external providers for compliance with Microsoft requirements.
• Lead technical reviews with utility provider to complete reliability study and support Energy team with feasibility studies to ensure compliance.
• Support the Energy team is energy application by providing requirement in power demand, power resiliency and physical diversity.
• Support the Site Selection team by validating electrical infrastructure arrangement, substation footprint and identify power availability risk during site due diligence and test fit.
• Assist partner teams to review the electrical infrastructure upgrading scope to raise site utilization.
• Assist in commissioning validating performance, quality, and reliability.
• Working to continually improve services and drive innovation

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering field.
• Chartered Engineer or working towards Chartership is preferable but not essential
• 5-7 years experience in data centres or related industry.
• Technical understanding of mission critical environments.
• The ideal candidate will be an electrical Professional Engineer with expertise in datacenter electrical power engineering.
• A team player able to work in a multi-disciplined engineering team designing the Client Datacenters globally and possesses the skills to work in a fast-paced multi project environment.
• Ideal candidate is knowledgeable in power generation and transmission topologies. Having a firm understanding of the electrical distribution system design and monitoring requirements for mission critical applications, along sequence of operation requirements and monitoring of all datacenter electrical control systems.
• Ability to advise a team of engineers in advanced engineering and operational processes and procedures as they relate to large data centre environments.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.