Engineering Team Lead, Electrical

About the role

Positions are available in our Mission Critical Department, which focuses primarily on hyperscale data centers and related mission critical facilities. The Engineering Team Lead – Electrical is a people-first leadership role within our Mission Critical Department. This person is responsible for developing, guiding, and elevating a team of electrical engineers while maintaining technical credibility on complex data center and mission critical projects.

Essential Functions

• Team Leadership & Personnel Development (60%):

  • Act as the day-to-day technical resource / mentor for assigned project teams, including coordination of engineering and BIM resources
  • Support onboarding and technical ramp-up of newly hired engineers and designers
  • Provide mentorship and development guidance to L3/L4 engineers through regular communication, technical reviews, and direct project involvement
  • Aid in candidate interviews with focus on technical capability, communication skills, and team fit
  • Coordinate workload forecasting, staffing coordination, and resource planning
  • Promote standardized workflows, design practices, and QA/QC expectations across assigned teams
  • Escalate project, staffing, technical, or performance concerns proactively and provide recommended paths forward
  • Build a culture of accountability, responsiveness, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing within the department
  • Lead by example in communication, ownership, collaboration, and execution in a fast-paced remote environment
  • Delegate design tasks, calculations, and deliverable ownership to team members commensurate with their capability
  • Model and reinforce desired company communication and operating system
  • Facilitate structured team learning sessions, technical discussion forums, and lessons-learned reviews

• Electrical Engineering Design Activities (20%):

  • Independently perform intermediate to advanced engineering work
  • Perform intermediate to advanced electrical design tasks including development of electrical distribution systems and topologies, infrastructure and equipment layouts and selection / sizing of equipment
  • Utilize AutoCAD and Revit software to prepare drawings and visual aids (as applicable)
  • Review and / or prepare book or sheet specifications for electrical systems
  • Develop and / or review sequences of operations
  • Aid in proposal development including project scope, schedule and budget
  • Timely and effectively manage project design team including resource forecasting and coordination
  • Identify potential project scope changes and aid in development of strategies to minimize impact and control deviations from estimated costs and project deadlines
  • Define and communicate clear technical direction and design basis to project teams, particularly under conditions of client ambiguity or late-binding decisions

• Pre-Construction & Construction Activities (10%):

  • Survey existing building conditions and prepare technical reports of findings
  • Collect data and other information for construction documents
  • Prepare project design and construction documents
  • Work as part of the engineering team and interact closely with the project management team
  • Review shop drawings and submittals
  • Review and respond to RFIs
  • Review and complete punch lists and project closeout documents

• Reporting (10%):

  • Maintain 30/60/90-day onboarding documentation for all new hires in purview, flagging milestone gaps before the next PDP gate
  • Complete and submit performance development check-ins at defined intervals with written progress assessments, identified gaps, and recommended next steps for each direct report
  • Proactively escalate performance or development concerns to department leadership prior to formal review cycles, with a proposed path forward
  • Track and report team capability and readiness levels, including advancement candidates and identified resource gaps
  • Report on workload distribution across assigned engineers, flagging capacity imbalances that risk compressing development time

Position Requirements

• Knowledge of electrical systems found in buildings including single/three phase power distribution, lighting and lighting controls, grounding and life safety systems
• Knowledge of codes and specifications for the design of electrical systems including National Electric Code, Life Safety and Energy Conservation Codes
• Knowledge of technical / design software including short circuit coordination and arc flash studies, equipment sizing, underground feeder calculations and lighting calculations
• Knowledge of various electrical topologies and distribution systems
• Skilled at producing drawings and visual aids using AutoCAD and Revit
• Skilled at using MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams), along with exceptional organizational skills for file management
• Skilled in performing code analysis including selection of equipment, wiring, etc. to meet code requirements
• Skilled in completing assignments accurately and with attention to detail
• Leverage AI and emerging technologies to streamline workflows, optimize operational processes, and contribute to company-wide innovation
• Work successfully in a remote environment thru effective communication and organizational skills, self-motivation, proactiveness and resourcefulness in a distraction free workspace
• Follow company and site safety requirements
• Analyze and prepare documents, reports and correspondence
• Communicate effectively in both oral and written form (technical and non-technical information)
• Work successfully as a member of a team and independently with moderate supervision
• Work under pressure and meet close deadlines
• Manage multiple tasks simultaneously