Associate Electrical Director: Data Centres

AECOM
Glasgow, London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["Client-facing","Written communication","Verbal communication","Team leadership","Mentoring"]

Lead electrical design and technical delivery for data centre projects across feasibility through handover, while defining power architectures and overseeing power systems studies, protection design, and resilience features. Coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces to deliver fully integrated designs, embed decarbonization and energy-efficiency strategies, and assure compliance with relevant standards. Manage and mentor teams across the UK and support work-winning and client-facing activities, collaborating with global colleagues across EMEA.

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Associate Electrical Director: Data Centres

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Job Summary

Lead electrical design and technical delivery for data centre projects across feasibility through handover, while defining power architectures and overseeing power systems studies, protection design, and resilience features. Coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces to deliver fully integrated designs, embed decarbonization and energy-efficiency strategies, and assure compliance with relevant standards. Manage and mentor teams across the UK and support work-winning and client-facing activities, collaborating with global colleagues across EMEA.
Location: Glasgow, 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 coordinate multi-disciplinary interfaces to deliver fully integrated designs.

Key Requirements

  • •Experience delivering electrical project work across data centres and mission critical environments.
  • •Proven ability to lead data centre (DC) project work streams in the UK and preferably across EMEA.
  • •Demonstrable client-facing and work-winning experience.
  • •Ability to provide strong team leadership and development capability.
  • •Strong commercial acumen, including experience managing project financials.
Experience:Data centresMission critical environmentsFast-trackDesign-build
Skills:Client-facingWritten communicationVerbal communicationTeam leadershipMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ETAPSKMUPSMV/LV distributionSwitchgearPDUsSTSBuswayEarthingLightingBMSEPMSSCADAArc-flashHarmonic analysis

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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