Global Design & Planning Engineer

Your role

Core responsibilities

• Partner with regional engineering and leadership teams to enforce global design principles.
• Conduct design audits and governance reviews to improve standardization and quality.
• Lead capacity planning, master planning, infrastructure expansion, budgeting, and ROM cost estimation.
• Forecast future business and infrastructure requirements from capacity trends.
• Direct modernization and regeneration initiatives.
• Develop business cases, expansion models, cost analyses, and investment recommendations.
• Lead engineering due diligence and asset integration for acquisitions.
• Standardize operating models, design processes, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Own the Global Whitespace Design Engineering Guidelines, including updates, training, and documentation.

What you will need

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or a related Engineering discipline.
• Significant mission-critical industry experience and engineering management experience in data centers or global engineering organizations.
• Strong expertise in capacity planning, investment management, infrastructure strategy, and operational support.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts and ambiguous business requirements into practical recommendations and solutions.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, project management, and risk management capabilities.
• Strong commitment to engineering excellence, governance, standards, quality, and attention to detail.
• Project management or data center design certifications are advantageous.