Lead Engineer - Cooling Technologies

Schneider Electric; Alice Springs; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric's One Solution Centre in Australia is seeking a Lead Engineer, Cooling Technologies to drive technical delivery of cooling solutions for large-scale data centre projects. You will own the cooling scope from tender through execution, collaborate with sales, factories, and partners, ensure compliant, reliable and sustainable designs, and lead cross-functional engineering teams.

The role demands strong leadership, deep HVAC and thermal expertise, and excellence in communication

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience leading technical scopes and engineering work packages.
• Experience delivering data centre, cloud, or mission-critical projects.
• Proven ability to develop technical proposals and support complex cooling infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in datacentre cooling, liquid cooling, HVAC, and thermal management.
• Solid understanding of ASHRAE guidelines and industry best practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of cooling solutions for major data centre opportunities.
• Analyse customer requirements to develop compliant cooling architectures.
• Support tender development through technical reviews, customer presentations, risk assessments, and solution validation.
• Act as technical owner for cooling systems across the project lifecycle, from handover to project completion.
• Coordinate engineering activities across factories, suppliers, engineering centres, project teams, and technology partners.
• Reviewing and approving detailed engineering deliverables to ensure compliance with customer requirements and Schneider Electric standards.
• Providing technical leadership during manufacturing, testing, commissioning, FAT, SAT, and project closeout activities.
• Supporting design change management, technical risk mitigation, and issue resolution throughout project delivery.

Skills

Technical leadership

Engineering packages

Data centre cooling

ASHRAE standards

Technical proposals

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Mechanical Engineering degree

Job description

About the One Solution Centre

You will become part of the One Solution Centre (OSC), Schneider Electric's premier engineering hub for bespoke power infrastructure across the Pacific.

The OSC designs and delivers integrated Low and Medium Voltage solutions, including switchgear, switchboards, prefabricated switchrooms, busway systems, kiosks, transformers, and modular substations. By combining global innovation with disciplined local execution, the team strengthens grid resilience and supports customers in achieving their sustainability and performance goals.

About the Role

We're looking for a Lead Engineer, Cooling Technologies to join our One Solutions team and lead the technical delivery of cooling solutions across some of the world's largest data centre, cloud, AI, and mission-critical infrastructure projects.

This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys combining technical leadership, project execution, and customer engagement. Working closely with sales teams, project managers, factories, suppliers, and engineering centres, you will take ownership of the cooling technical scope from tender development through project execution and handover, ensuring solutions are compliant, reliable, sustainable, and aligned with customer expectations.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading the development of cooling solutions for major data centre and mission-critical project opportunities.
• Analysing customer requirements and technical specifications to develop compliant and optimised cooling architectures.
• Supporting tender development through technical reviews, customer presentations, risk assessments, and solution validation.
• Acting as the technical owner for cooling systems throughout the project lifecycle, from handover to project completion.
• Coordinating engineering activities across factories, suppliers, engineering centres, project teams, and technology partners.
• Reviewing and approving detailed engineering deliverables to ensure compliance with customer requirements and Schneider Electric standards.
• Providing technical leadership during manufacturing, testing, commissioning, FAT, SAT, and project closeout activities.
• Supporting design change management, technical risk mitigation, and issue resolution throughout project delivery.
• Ensuring seamless integration of cooling systems with electrical, controls, monitoring, and prefabricated infrastructure solutions.
• Acting as the primary technical interface for cooling-related discussions with customers, partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For

• Degree-qualified Mechanical Engineer, HVAC Engineer, Thermal Engineer, or similar.
• 7+ years' experience leading technical scopes, engineering work packages, or major customer projects.
• Experience delivering projects within data centres, cloud and service providers, hyperscale, colocation, or other mission-critical environments.
• Proven experience developing technical proposals and supporting the execution of complex cooling infrastructure projects.
• Strong expertise in datacentre cooling systems, chilled water and air-cooled technologies, liquid cooling solutions, HVAC systems, thermal management, and cooling architectures supporting AI, HPC, and mission critical environments.
• Strong understanding of ASHRAE guidelines, HVAC standards, and industry best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to review, challenge, and approve complex engineering designs and technical solutions.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership capabilities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work effectively across multicultural, matrixed organisations and manage multiple technical interfaces simultaneously.

Why Schneider Electric?

We empower our people to make an impact and innovate for a sustainable future. Join us and be part of a global leader committed to energy efficiency, sustainability, and digital transformation.

• Work on some of the world's largest hyperscale, AI, and mission-critical datacentre projects.
• Lead the technical delivery of advanced cooling and thermal management solutions.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams, factories, technology partners, and industry-leading customers.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies including liquid cooling, high-density cooling architectures, and sustainable thermal management solutions.
• Be part of a strong global technical community focused on innovation and engineering excellence.
• Build your career in a fast-growing and rapidly evolving data centre industry.

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering next-generation cooling and thermal management solutions for some of the world's most advanced digital infrastructure projects.

If you're passionate about technical excellence, innovation, and delivering complex engineering solutions that support the future of AI, cloud, and mission-critical infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.