Global Electrical Design Manager

About The Role

The Global Electrical Design Manager owns electrical design standards across the Volta fleet — from utility interconnection and switchgear through to the distribution architecture that gets power reliably to every rack. You will set the reference designs every project builds from, and act as the technical authority when projects need to deviate from standard.

Working closely with front-end planning, the DSX team and project design leads, you will make sure electrical design decisions make sense at fleet scale, not just on a single site — balancing cost, constructability, lead times and long-term reliability across every project in the pipeline.

What You Will Be Doing

• Own Volta's electrical design standards and reference architectures across the fleet

• Review and approve project-level electrical design deliverables against fleet standards

• Lead technical decisions on utility interconnection, switchgear, distribution and backup power strategy

• Partner with the Precon / FEP function to shape electrical scope and strategy during front-end planning

• Coordinate with equipment vendors on electrical equipment selection, lead times and standardisation

• Support commissioning and the DSX team with electrical design input for turn-up readiness

• Manage electrical design consultants and review their deliverables for quality and consistency

• Feed lessons learned from live projects back into fleet-wide reference designs

• Ensure electrical designs meet applicable codes and utility requirements across jurisdictions

What You Bring

• Significant electrical design experience on data centre or mission-critical facility projects is essential

• Deep technical knowledge of medium- and low-voltage distribution, switchgear, and backup power systems

• Experience setting or working within standardised design programmes across multiple projects

• A track record managing design consultants and reviewing engineering deliverables

• Strong understanding of how electrical design decisions affect cost, schedule and constructability

• Chartered engineer status or equivalent professional qualification is an advantage

• Willingness to travel across the fleet as needed