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    Senior Design & Project Engineer - Data Centre

    Strong basic + bonus
     

    Job Description

    Dublin, Ireland

    The Client

    Datacenter People is partnering with a diversified power management company and global technology leader in power, cooling and software infrastructure for multiple industrial sectors including mission critical and data center.

    What The Job Involves

    As a Senior Design & Project Engineer As part of the data centre leadership team. The main function is to help establish, protect, and grow the company's Data Centre, product &services business in EMEA.
    Provide data centre clients, consultants, contractors, and the company's sales & application engineers a deep level of engineering support and direction relating to the design, build and operation of large data centres. Principally this relates to the electrical infrastructure but extends into the overall operational technology found in the data centre environment.
    Electromechanical systems such a cooling, building management systems, energy management systems. It also requires a full appreciation of various building construction technologies and challenges. This covers traditional brick & mortar to modularized systems. It also requires experience in the project management and supervision of build projects and the delivery of the various product technologies & services required in the data centre environment.

    • Provide senior Engineering Leadership & Direction to the data centre extended team. This includes Sales, Marketing, Services, and the associated business units(manufacturing).
    • Build insights and relationships with client organisation(s) with a view to identifying their operational challenges and needs.
    • Oversee the Translation of client requirement (specifications) and needs into product and service remedies
    • Oversee & support company teams to generate high, value added, engineering and commercial proposals to clients.
    • As subject matter expert to support the Sales Key Account team to secure orders which create a profitable, sustainable growth business.
    • To under manage & communicate effectively the business conducted between both organisations.
    • Give regular update/guidance on data centre industry, technology & engineering trends in the marketplace and specific to key accounts.
    • Highest data centre Subject Matter expert in the company and equally expert in the company's Products, Services, General business, structure, strategy, and operations. So that it can be articulated this in terms of value to client’s business.
    • Gain leadership & executive team awareness and support & resources for data centre team & business.
    • Contribute & Support marketing campaigns & activities that can promote the company to Client relations and business.
    • Be the company's principal technical / engineering spokesperson in terms of PR, Media & Marketing activities.
    • Be final escalation point for all data centre related engineering matters.
    • Set the data centre standard for industry engagement and drive excellence in term of engineering proposals, project execution, support, and services at both pre and post sales stages.
    • Ensure the company's operations are aligned to Data Centre Industry norms and are fit for purpose.
    • Maintain a fully up to date brief on data centre electrical designs and standards and be effective at communicating this internally & externally.
    • Oversee the activity and skill set development of the company's solution architects in the data centre team.
    • Ensure all KAM are correctly skilled and knowledgeable to the right level in terms of data centre engineering.
    • Provide oversight and leadership to other cross divisional teams involved with data centres - Design & Bid, Project Management, Services, Site Managers

    We Are Looking For Someone With

    • BSc/ MSc in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
    • 5 to 10 years in a senior technical role in the Data Centre Industry.
    • Electrical or IT technical qualification/certification. Shall have worked directly on data centre critical power infrastructure projects. Shall have significant engineering training / certification
    • Strong Communicator, Team orientated, Leadership

    We regret that due to the high volume of applications we are unable to acknowledge each one. Please bear in mind that if you are selected for interview we will contact you within the next seven days.

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