Electrical Engineering Manager

As Electrical Engineering Manager you will be part of our Central Engineering and leading a group of Electrical Engineers. As subject matter experts (SME's) your team and you will be responsible for all electrical systems in your area of responsbibility. You will be acting as an interface to our Data Center Operations, Design teams, OEM's and to our customers. Authoring and deploying Electrical Safety Rules will be part of your remit along ensuring the highest levels of efficiency and reliability and securing the delivery to the highest standard. You will be reporting to the Senior Electrical Engineer - EMEA.

What you will do

• Responsible for the management and development in Electrical Engineering for UK and Western Europe (UK, Netherlands, Spain, France)
• Managing, developing and expanding the Electrical Engineering Team, including workload management
• Ensure time management and quality delivery from different stakeholders
• Client-oriented strong stakeholder management, providing frequent updates (externally, internally) to ensure continuous clarity
• Conduct thorough root-cause analysis and implement lessons learned to drive continuous improvement
• Involvement in training development for electrical systems, ensuring adherence to company standards and regional requirements
• Acting as 2nd and 3rd level escalation for electrical and control issues
• Provide SOP/EOP development, approve drafts, and provide approvals for MOP, SOP, and EOP within the CAB process
• Responsibility for managing and writing electrical safety rules for the area of responsibility, ensuring the electrical safety and harmonization throught the company standards
• Serve as a sparring partner for Design, External Consultants, and OEMs, leveraging strong technical expertise to ensure effective collaboration and innovative solutions

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Proven leadership experience, managing a team of electrical engineers and apprentices
• Experienced in leading a technical function within a mission critical environment and being very customer facing and focussed
• Extensive electrical engineering, maintenance, commissioning and safety standards experience in Data Center or other mission critical sector is essential
• Previous experience as an High Voltage Authorising Engineer (HV AE)
• Detailed technical knowledge of the type of large-scale electrical systems, including HV, LV, UPS, Standby Power and related electrical systems and BMS/EMS and control systems
• Proficient knowledge in discrimination, short circuit and arc flash studies is desirable
• Proven track record of electrical optimization and efficiency improvements, preferably in Data Centers
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to conduct root-cause analysis and implement lessons learned
• Experience in developing and delivering training programs
• Familiarity with SOP/EOP development and the CAB process
• Ability to act as an escalation point for complex electrical and control issues
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to continuous improvement
• CEng Status or being in progress to achieve
• Fluent in English; additional languages relevant to the region (e.g., Dutch, Spanish, French, German) are a plus
• Willingness to travel regularly nationally and internationally (up to 25%)
• To undergo full security checks to BS7858:2019

We look forward to hearing from you!

About the Global Data Centers division of NTT Ltd.

Global Data Centers is a division of NTT Ltd. Our global platform is one of the largest in the world. NTT is ranked as one of the top three leaders worldwide by IDC in their Colocation and Interconnection Services MarketScape, spanning more than 20 countries and regions including North America, Europe, Africa, India and APAC.

As a neutral operator, we offer access to multiple cloud providers, a large variety of Internet Exchanges and telecommunication network providers including our own IPv6 compliant, tier 1 global IP network. Our clients benefit from tailored infrastructure and experience consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our reliable, scalable and customizable data centers.

Working for Global Data Centers EMEA

We are one of the leading and largest data center provider and for more than 20 years we have been supporting our clients from a wide variety of industries with our talented team of nearly 900 people (m/f/d). Today, we are designing and operating 18 data center locations across 160,000 sqm in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, in the Netherlands and in Great Britain and expanding into further markets. Our people come from a variety of industries and work together to find the best solution for every challenge. Due to the diversity of backgrounds our people (m/f/d) come from, the ability to work in teams and good communication skills are very important to us.

As a performance-oriented company, we value expert knowledge and people who want to shape the future. We are growing internationally and offer our people (m/f/d) the opportunity to work worldwide within the NTT Group if they are suitably qualified and interested.