Senior Electrical Engineer / Design Delivery Lead
CSG Talent · California, United States · 3 wk ago
On-siteDesignFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with development teams on customer technical requests, including RFP/RFI/RFQ support and engineering clarifications
- Lead electrical services design delivery from concept through construction documentation, coordinating inputs across disciplines and stakeholders
- Provide design governance: respond to RFIs, review/approve technical submittals, and ensure design intent is maintained through delivery
- Conduct detailed design reviews of contractor-led submissions to identify risk, gaps, and non-conformances, and drive resolution
- Evaluate and influence electrical equipment and system selection to meet customer requirements, performance standards, and project constraints
- Provide technical direction on critical infrastructure systems and broader data center basis of design requirements
- Manage external consultants and contractors producing electrical services packages, ensuring quality, pace, and alignment to requirements
- Collaborate with suppliers and vendors to align solutions to technical specifications, performance, resilience, and budget parameters
- Support delivery controls across scope, cost, schedule, documentation, and reporting in partnership with project management resources
- Coordinate with authorities and approval bodies to support design progression, approvals, and compliance requirements
- Post-handover, review performance and identify opportunities for operational optimisation, energy efficiency, and repeatable portfolio improvements
- Contribute to the ongoing evolution of portfolio standards and basis of design as technology and customer expectations advance
- Support feasibility and due diligence activities to validate technical solutions during early-stage development and site selection
- Build senior relationships with customers throughout delivery, maintaining credibility and ensuring expectations are met
- Mentor and support project teams, contributing to capability development and lessons-learned programs
Qualifications
- Degree (or Master’s) in Electrical Engineering
- 10+ years’ experience in electrical/building services design and construction with a strong track record in data center builds
- Strong knowledge of data center electrical infrastructure and delivery requirements, including resilience, constructability, commissioning readiness, and operational performance
- Experience designing or interpreting protection and grading studies, and confidence challenging solutions to reduce risk
- Demonstrable experience leading complex programs: consultant selection, RFP/RFQ processes, budgeting, and coordination across multiple teams
- Vendor and subcontractor management experience, with the ability to drive practical outcomes through external partners
- Commercial strength, including contract awareness, negotiation capability, and disciplined decision-making
- Familiarity with hyper-scale and collocation operator requirements and basis-of-design expectations
- Solid working knowledge of structured reporting and documentation; comfortable working across Excel/Word and presenting to stakeholders