Associate Electrical Director: Data Centres

AECOM
Leeds, London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["Team leadership","Client communication","Work winning","Mentoring","Commercial acumen"]

Lead electrical technical delivery for data centre projects across feasibility through handover, driving power architectures, studies, and protection design for mission-critical environments. Mentor and manage a team of electrical experts across the UK, coordinating multidisciplinary interfaces to deliver resilient, efficient, and low-carbon outcomes. Shape strategy and win work, ensuring compliance with relevant standards while integrating monitoring, controls, resilience, and decarbonization features.

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Associate Electrical Director: Data Centres

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Job Summary

Lead electrical technical delivery for data centre projects across feasibility through handover, driving power architectures, studies, and protection design for mission-critical environments. Mentor and manage a team of electrical experts across the UK, coordinating multidisciplinary interfaces to deliver resilient, efficient, and low-carbon outcomes. Shape strategy and win work, ensuring compliance with relevant standards while integrating monitoring, controls, resilience, and decarbonization features.
Location: Leeds, London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own electrical design across feasibility, concept, scheme, and detailed design through procurement support, construction, commissioning, and handover.
  • •Define and validate power architectures including utility intake, MV/LV distribution, UPS topologies, generators, switchgear, PDUs, STS, busway, earthing, and lighting.
  • •Lead power systems studies and protection design (load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, arc-flash, harmonic analysis) using tools such as ETAP/SKM.
  • •Integrate monitoring and controls (BMS/EPMS/SCADA), metering strategies, and resilience features aligned to availability objectives (e.g., Tier II–IV).
  • •Assure compliance with applicable standards and codes (IEC/BS/EN and/or NEC/NFPA) and coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces to deliver fully integrated designs.

Key Requirements

  • •Hyperscale and/or multi-site program experience, including fast-track and design-build environments.
  • •Strong delivery background in electrical project work across data centres and mission-critical environments.
  • •Proven experience leading data centre (DC) project work streams in the UK and preferably across EMEA.
  • •Demonstrable client-facing and work-winning experience, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • •Ability to lead and develop teams, with strong commercial acumen and experience managing project financials.
Skills:Team leadershipClient communicationWork winningMentoringCommercial acumen
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ETAPSKMBMSEPMSSCADAUPSMV/LV distributionGeneratorsSwitchgearPDUsSTSBuswayEarthingLighting

Company Brief

AECOM
AECOM is a global infrastructure firm providing design, consulting, construction, and management services across transportation, buildings, water, environment, and energy sectors, delivering large-scale projects for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.
Industry: Civil Engineering
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 1990
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