Electrical Lead - Data Centres in London

Electrical Lead (Data Centres)

Location: London

Permanent

Office / Home hybrid working

Do you want to be a part of a growing MEP team? Can you collaborate with colleagues across UK & International projects? Are you experienced in hyperscale data centre design? Then this could be the next adventure in your career.

Grow COWI’s international data centre business
Data centres are a strategic growth area at COWI. As we scale our presence in this market, we are enhancing our multidisciplinary capabilities and working closely with clients to develop reliable, efficient and sustainable data centre solutions. In this role, you will engage closely with clients, colleagues and partners to develop and deliver data centre projects from early concept through design and implementation.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
Thanks to continued expansion we have an opportunity for an Electrical Design Lead to join us. This is a key leadership position, responsible for driving the electrical design strategy and technical delivery of large-scale, mission critical data centre projects from concept through to commissioning.

Working from our new Bishopsgate offices in London (with travel to Scandinavia as required), you’ll liaise closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, clients and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities of the Electrical Lead Engineer

The Electrical Lead Engineer will provide technical leadership for the design and delivery of mission critical electrical infrastructure supporting high-density data centre environments, including liquid-cooled and air-cooled IT deployments. The role will be responsible for ensuring the safe, resilient, efficient, and scalable integration of power systems to support evolving rack densities, advanced cooling technologies, and future capacity expansion requirements, while maintaining compliance with project standards, statutory requirements, and client objectives.

• Lead the design and delivery of MV/LV power distribution systems, including oversight of single line diagrams, load schedules, cable calculations, protection schemes, and equipment specifications.
• Manage the design and coordination of electrical building services systems, including lighting, emergency lighting, fire alarm, security, earthing, bonding, and lightning protection.
• Review and approve electrical designs, calculations, reports, specifications, and technical documentation to ensure compliance with project requirements and applicable standards.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to electrical engineers and designers.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, clients, and stakeholders to deliver integrated design solutions.
• Undertake technical assurance reviews to verify engineering quality, design robustness, and compliance with statutory, client, and company requirements.
• Identify and manage technical risks, design changes, and engineering issues throughout the design process.
• Support procurement activities through technical evaluations, equipment selection, and review of vendor submissions.
• Contribute to commissioning, testing, and handover activities to ensure systems perform in accordance with the design intent.
• Ensure adherence to company quality management systems, governance procedures, and project delivery processes.
• Promote best practice in health, safety, sustainability, resilience, and operational reliability.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• A degree in Electrical Engineering
• Achieved Chartered Engineer status or a similar professional qualification
• Extensive experience in electrical data centre design projects
• The ability to provide technically sound solutions alone and as a discipline lead.
• Experience in using related software including Amtech & other digital design packages.
• Proficiency in working with BIM software such as Revit, Open Buildings Designer or similar.
• Awareness and knowledge of energy reduction methods, carbon calculations, and sustainable design (particularly low energy)
• Familiarity with relevant standards and structured delivery frameworks (e.g. EN 50600, TIA 942, RIBA or equivalent)

A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun, because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays

• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities

• Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents

• Flexible and hybrid working conditions

• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions

• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange

• Life assurance

• Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)

• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)

Optional benefits include:

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Electric vehicle lease

• Corporate gym membership

• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)

Got more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Laura Dobson LADN@cowi.com
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer.
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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