Data Center Electrical Design Manager - EMEA
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About the Role
Eaton seeks a Data Center Electrical Design Manager for the EMEA region to lead electrical design for data center projects. The role involves managing design teams, ensuring quality standards, and providing technical leadership.
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Responsibilities
- Act as Design Manager on data centre projects, leading the electrical design scope from concept through construction support and closeout
- Remain hands on in electrical design, providing technical leadership and ownership of critical design aspects
- Lead and coordinate electrical engineers and SMEs as part of a multidisciplinary design team
- Manage design deliverables, resources, schedules, and quality across assigned projects
- Provide expert technical guidance and mentoring to the DC Design & Engineering team
- Develop, implement, and uphold electrical design quality standards, procedures, and best practices
- Review and approve electrical designs, calculations, reports, and specifications
- Act as a client facing technical lead, attending and contributing to client, contractor, and Eaton internal meetings
- Lead project teams during value engineering, optioneering, and technical decision making stages
- Participate in and lead project site visits to monitor, review, and resolve electrical installation and commissioning matters
- Collaborate with project management, commercial, and construction teams to ensure successful project outcomes
Requirements
- BSc / MSc in Electrical engineering
- 15+ Years of Experience in a similar position
- Proven experience delivering full suite of electrical engineering services for mission critical facilities
- Strong knowledge of relevant electrical codes, standards, and accepted industry best practices
- Experience undertaking value engineering and integrating new technologies
- Fluent Arabic & English required
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Role Overview
- Reporting into the EMEA Director of Engineering DC Segment, the Data Centre Electrical Design Manager will be responsible for managing the design, development, and implementation of innovative data centre solutions.
- This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong technical background in data centre design and a passion for driving innovation.
- This role requires influential technical leader who can drive design innovation, managing engineering teams, lead continuous improvement to enable the delivery of high quality, efficient, and scalable data centre solutions.
- It offers a deep level of engineering support and direction relating to the design, build and operation of large Data Centres.
- Principally, this relates to the electrical infrastructure, but extends into the overall operational technology found in the Data Centre environment.
- The role requires expertise within electromechanical systems such a cooling, building management systems, energy management systems.
- It also requires a full appreciation of various building construction technologies and challenges.
- It also requires experience in the project management and supervision of build projects and the delivery of the various product technologies & services required in the Data Centre environment.
What You’ll Do
- Act as Design Manager on data centre projects, leading the electrical design scope from concept, through detailed design, to construction support and closeout.
- Remain hands on in electrical design, providing technical leadership and ownership of critical design aspects for mission critical facilities.
- Lead and coordinate electrical engineers and SMEs as part of a multidisciplinary design team on both large and small projects.
- Manage design deliverables, resources, schedules, and quality across assigned projects.
- Provide expert technical guidance and mentoring to the DC Design & Engineering team.
- Develop, implement, and uphold electrical design quality standards, procedures, and best practices.
- Review and approve electrical designs, calculations, reports, and specifications, undertaking and facilitating formal peer reviews.
- Act as a client facing technical lead, attending and contributing to client, contractor, and Eaton internal meetings.
- Lead project teams during value engineering, optioneering, and technical decision making stages.
- Participate in and lead project site visits to monitor, review, and resolve electrical installation and commissioning matters.
- Collaborate with project management, commercial, and construction teams to ensure successful project outcomes.
Qualifications
- BSc / MSc in Electrical engineering
- 15+ Years of Experience in a similar position
Skills
- Proven experience delivering the full suite of electrical engineering services for mission critical facilities, including (but not limited to): MV and LV power distribution, Transformers, UPS and standby generation systems.
- Strong knowledge of relevant electrical codes, standards, and accepted industry best practices.
- Experience undertaking value engineering and integrating new technologies to deliver cost effective, resilient client solutions.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD and Revit is advantageous, but not essential.
- Fluent Arabic & English required.
- Familiarity with emerging technologies such as edge computing and AI.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to think strategically and drive long term innovation.
- Proven experience in building teams and supporting processes.
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