Senior Electrical Engineer

General Purpose Of The Position

The purpose of this position is to be part of the Switch Hyperscale Design Engineering Team. The engineering team is responsible for the design, construction support, and standards development for our rapidly expanding data center footprint. The Hyperscale Center Engineering Team at Switch works to design and develop resilient, cost-effective colocation data center buildings on our campuses throughout the United States.

Switch is a fun, fast paced, exciting work environment where employees are valued and expected to grow. We are looking for individuals who understand what it takes to support the hyperscale speed to market, the tradeoffs between cost, speed, and quality, and enjoy a challenge, and have a desire for professional growth. The engineers at Switch are expected to be creative, proactive, vocal, and focused on continuous improvement.

We are looking for Senior Design Engineer with experience in electrical data center facility design. You will supervise the design of our facilities to ensure they comply with our standards while acting as a subject matter expert, leading standards and process development. You will identify areas of opportunity in our designs and create mechanisms to ensure our future designs will evolve as a result.

You will be part of a tight knit team, relied upon to independently finish tasks while providing support for team members. You will be working with other internal teams, external engineering consultants, equipment vendors and manufacturers, utilities, inspectors, and contractors.

This is a remote position, with domestic travel expected to be less than 25%.

This position may require the candidate/employee to undergo additional background checks and drug screenings prior to and during the course of employment in support of customer-specific deployments.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Write and present technical papers to customers, leadership, and peers
• Act as a leader and solve problems while being willing to learn from others
• Independently research new technologies and develop new solutions for data center electrical designs
• Manage multiple concurrent projects designed by external consultants
• Be a leader in the Hyperscale Data Center Design Engineering team, supporting the design and development of data center infrastructure
• Author, review and issue RFP’s for external design consultants
• Work with vendors and manufacturers to specify appropriate electrical equipment
• Ensure designs comply with relevant codes in various jurisdictions
• Lead the development and maintenance of the Hyperscale Basis of Design
• Develop and maintain design standards and specification templates
• Assess engineering calculation assumptions and evaluate engineering design options
• Review campus utility and site layouts during master planning
• Manage our external Design Consultants through all phases of projects
• Collaborate with relevant Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) and Utilities
• Coordinate with internal and external MEP Engineers, Construction Managers, and other related disciplines
• Identify and spearhead initiatives to improve cost, quality, schedule, and consistency across sites
• Travel for site assessments, consultant selection activities, internal design meetings, construction review, interface with AHJs, design consultants, quantity surveyors, and building owners
  
  

Other Duties

• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Required Job Skills

• Have demonstrated knowledge of building and site construction as related to electrical generation and distribution
• Possess knowledge of electrical protection and control systems, grounding, diesel generators, uninterruptible power systems, and current battery technologies, as related to hyperscale data centers
• Experience in the electrical design of large scale greenfield and brownfield data center facilities from conception through handoff
• Be informed of industry design trends
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to interpret electric codes and standards including NEC, NFPA, UL, ANSI, BICSI, as well as utility requirements
  
  

Computer Equipment And Software

• Bluebeam, SKM, ETap, Excel, SmartSheet, MS Office
  
  

Certification

Education and Experience:

• Registered Professional Engineer
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
  
  

Experience

• 8+ years of design experience in the design of data center facilities
  
  

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

If your position requires you to work in the field and/or warehouse, it is mandatory that you wear approved Personal Protective Equipment.

The Company reasonably believes the tasks and/or duties of this position could adversely affect the safety and health of the employee or others.