Senior Electrical Engineer - Data Center Construction Design

at CBRE in Augusta, Maine, United States

Senior Electrical Engineer Data Center Construction Design

Job ID

220128

Posted

15-May-2025

Service line

PJM Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Construction, Data Centers, Project Management

Location(s)

Remote US Remote US United States of America

About the role

CBRE is looking for a Senior Data Center Electrical Engineer that will assist and augment day-to-day capacity of our clients Global Data Center Execution Engineering (ExE) team. This shall include the design & localization of new hyperscale data centers and campuses, supporting operations staff with engineering solutions, streamlining construction issue resolution and other internal engineering tasks.

This position is remote with travel as needed

What youll do

+ Review and assist development of electrical systems for hyperscale data centers including campus planning, general layout/arrangements, Single line diagrams, SCCAF , calculations, etc.

+ Review technical development of site primary substation.

+ Review internal specifications and vendor compliance statements ( CDE ).

+ Oversee design consultants and provide direction or escalation in accordance with established engineering standards.

+ Peer review design consultants deliverables including drawing sets, specifications, sequence of operations, calculations, models, etc. and provide comments & resolutions

+ Review and advise on potential value engineering opportunities.

+ Develop rapid conceptual sketches using CAD or BIM for visualization and spatial/dimensional validations (e.g., for conveying ideas, streamlining communication, etc.).

+ Occasionally lead projects and solutioning of electrical issues, outages, fleet wide improvements and other needs arising from existing, operational data center campuses as ExE representative in direct support of DCOps partners.

+ Evaluate post-mortem reports, root cause analyses and presentations and make comments and recommendations.

+ Generate solution/upgrade/improvement options that have a fleetwide impact to improve reliability and availability of critical operational infrastructure.

+ Review data analytics of operational trends (historian trend logs) to evaluate equipment health, remaining useful life and predictive failure models.

+ Work with partners in construction, design and change management to compile, prioritize/triage and process construction originated engineering issues for standard design/product improvements.

+ When necessary, sup