Data Center Electrical Engineer

Data Center Electrical Engineer

Google

Groningen, Netherlands

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working with data center equipment/environments including switchgear, generators, controls, security monitoring systems, and fire safety systems.
• Experience managing construction projects, within an international working environment.
• Experience in facility electrical systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Understanding of start up/commissioning processes.
• Understanding of standard practices in the design and construction industry.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Ability to build excellent relationships and deliver on action-orientated tasks.
• Effective skills in requirement gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling, problem-solving, and achieving goals.

About the job:

As an Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for the technical support of the localized design effort (i.e. campus plan through to detailed design) for field engineering through project delivery and commissioning, and for engineering reviews of the close out documentation. In addition, and depending on the campus activities, you will support the electrical design and delivery on Moves, Adds, Retrofits, Changes, Upgrades, and Security projects (MARCUS) within operational data centers. You will liaise with the Data Center Operations team on all electrical warranty issues.

Responsibilities:

• Drive project electrical outcomes of high complexity and scope as a key contributor, integrating feedback from multiple stakeholders when necessary, and provide electrical technical leadership to resolve critical field issues.
• Contribute to project electrical scoping and direction, and manage project electrical priorities and allocation of technical resources within the project.
• Provide technical leadership to the projects, support and optimize project design, scope, schedule, quality, commissioning, and safety for the electrical discipline, and provide feedback to the central partner teams on possible improvements.
• Troubleshoot advanced electrical system events, and escalate only the most complex issues as appropriate.
• Contribute to the development of cross-project, cross-functional, and cross-organizational procedures and ensure alignment of the Electrical Engineers' work with multiple teams/projects.