Senior Electrical Engineer, Global

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Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Position Overview

Vantage is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to be part of the Innovation Engineering team that owns the standardization of products across Vantage’s companywide portfolio.

In this role you will be responsible for design development of microgrid solutions, on-site power generation, high-voltage electrical systems including substations, switchgear and MV transformers. Develop associated standards and specification, to enable establishing a procurement program.

Regular teamwork and coordination will be required with architects, other engineering fields, procurement, and facility operations team. You will work with the regional design and execution teams to ensure that new standards are established, and existing standards are implemented and coordinate any enhancements required to be incorporated into the standard design and specifications.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead design and engineering efforts for high-voltage electrical systems – substations, switchgear, and transformers.

• Coordinate with internal teams on developing on-site power generation solutions.

• Supervise the development of microgrid solutions – including system level architecture, integration with renewable energy sources that can operate in a grid-connected or island mode.

• Develop, maintain and update – standards, reference designs – electrical block diagrams, single line diagrams, to allow for rapid deployment of these designs with minimal site adaptation.

• Collaborate with mechanical counterparts to develop and optimize central utility plants design and required electrical interface.

• Drive innovation of Vantage’s competitive advantage through implementation of emerging technologies, product developments and patents.

• Visit manufacturing plants for Factory Witness Testing (FWT) of critical equipment.

Duties

• Provide oversight and review of program level design plans, equipment, and system submittals.

• Ensure consistent design execution through coordination and handoff to internal and external project direct resources for site adaptation of program prototype.

• Coordinate heavily with internal engineering team across all fields to ensure products delivered to Operations is streamlined and optimized to meet the needs of the business across all functions.

• Conduct value engineering analyses and provide system …