Senior Data Center Electrical Engineer - Full-time

Position Overview

CBRE is looking for a Senior Data Center Electrical Engineer to assist and augment day-to-day capacity of our client’s Global Data Center – Execution Engineering (ExE) team. You will work on the design and localization of new hyperscale data centers and campuses, support operations staff with engineering solutions, and streamline construction issue resolution along with other internal engineering tasks. This position is remote with travel as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and assist development of electrical systems for hyperscale data centers including campus planning, general layout/arrangements, single line diagrams, SCCAF, and calculations.
• Review technical development of the site primary substation.
• Review internal specifications and vendor compliance statements (CDE).
• Oversee design consultants and provide direction or escalation as per established engineering standards.
• Peer review deliverables from design consultants (drawing sets, specifications, sequence of operations, calculations, models, etc.) and provide comments and resolutions.
• Review and advise on potential value engineering opportunities.
• Develop rapid conceptual sketches using CAD or BIM for visualization and spatial/dimensional validations.
• Occasionally lead projects and provide solutions for electrical issues, outages, and fleet-wide improvements on operational data center campuses as the ExE representative supporting DCOps partners.
• Evaluate post-mortem reports, root cause analyses, and presentations and provide recommendations.
• Generate solution, upgrade, or improvement options to improve reliability and availability of the critical operational infrastructure.
• Review data analytics of operational trends to evaluate equipment health, remaining useful life, and predictive failure models.
• Collaborate with construction, design, and change management partners to compile, prioritize, and process construction-originated engineering issues for standard design/product enhancements.
• Support engineering bulletins for the wide dissemination of design changes when necessary.
• Assist in overall standard design improvement processes between products, design, construction, and operations.
• Operate the client’s “Buganizer” platform to file or close out bugs.
• Produce presentations as the main deliverable to communicate findings, evaluations, and options to internal partners.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 8-10 years of solid experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
• Experience specifying switchgears, switchboards, panel boards, cables, monitoring equipment, generators, VFDs, UPS, Transformers, etc.
• Experience performing power system analysis with common engineering software packages.
• Proficient user of drafting tools like CAD or BIM.
• Experience and knowledge working with cross-discipline teams such as structural, civil, IT/Telecom, security, mechanical, and architectural.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office or gSuite products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Experience with mission critical facilities design and construction is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with an advanced inquisitive mentality.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation: Minimum salary $165,000 annually and maximum salary $190,000 annually; eligible for a discretionary bonus based on Turner & Townsend’s applicable benefit program.
• 401(K)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance