Senior Electrical Design Lead for Hyperscale Data Centre

Zerra DC; Brisbane; Vor Ort; AUD 190.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Zerra DC is seeking a Design Manager – Electrical to lead electrical design assurance for the Western Downs Digital Park project in Brisbane, Queensland, with regular travel to Dalby. You will translate project requirements into coordinated, buildable electrical designs and act as the subject-matter expert through design reviews, QA/QC and delivery-stage resolution.

You will work with Zerra DC's multidisciplinary team and external consultants to uphold technical standards, manage interfaces, and

Qualifikationen

• At least 10 years of electrical design or design-management experience.
• Experience in data centres, mission-critical facilities or comparable large-scale industrial infrastructure.
• Chartership and professional registration preferred.

Aufgaben

• Lead electrical design management and QA/QC assurance for the Western Downs Digital Park programme.
• Conduct design reviews, technical audits and close-out of discrepancies and interface risks.
• Coordinate with mechanical, HV, controls, energy storage, civil, structural, architectural and life-safety disciplines.
• Provide electrical input into project gates, design maturity reviews, technical decisions and risk management.

Kenntnisse

Electrical design management

QA/QC

Design reviews

Stakeholder management

Power distribution

Building-services interfaces

Ausbildung

Electrical Engineering degree

Jobbeschreibung

Lead the electrical design assurance behind a major new hyperscale and AI-ready data centre campus.

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, with regular travel to Dalby

Reports to: Technical Director

About Zerra DC

Zerra DC develops and operates hyperscale data centre campuses across Australia, Japan and India, delivering capacity at scale into markets being reshaped by the growth of cloud and AI.

Zerra DC is part of AGP Sustainable Real Assets, a global infrastructure and real assets business with more than 800 professionals across 15 offices.

Western Downs Digital Park

Western Downs Digital Park is a major new hyperscale data centre campus at Kogan in Queensland. Planned across multiple delivery phases, it brings together AI-ready data centres, energy infrastructure and a purpose-built campus environment. This is an opportunity to help shape the technical foundations of a critical new digital infrastructure asset from the ground up.

The role

The Design Manager – Electrical will lead electrical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, translating project requirements into coordinated, compliant and buildable electrical design outcomes. You will act as the electrical subject matter expert through design reviews, technical assurance and delivery-stage resolution.

Working across Zerra DC's multidisciplinary engineering team and external consultants, you will maintain technical standards, manage critical interfaces and help improve electrical performance, resilience, constructability and whole-of-life value.

What you will lead

• Electrical design management and QA/QC assurance across the WDDP programme.
• Design reviews, technical audits and the close-out of discrepancies, missing information and interface risks.
• Coordination with mechanical, high-voltage, controls, energy storage, civil, structural, architectural and life-safety disciplines.
• Electrical input into project gates, design maturity reviews, technical decisions and risk management.
• Engagement with electrical consultants, contractors, suppliers and internal delivery workstreams.
• Evaluation of design, product and vendor improvements that enhance resilience, buildability and whole-of-life cost.

What you will bring

You will be an experienced electrical engineer or design manager with the technical depth to challenge designs and the practical judgement to drive issues to resolution. Experience in data centres, mission-critical facilities or comparable large-scale industrial infrastructure will be important.

• At least 10 years of electrical design or design-management experience.
• Strong capability across power distribution, resilience, redundancy, protection, earthing, standby power and building-services interfaces.
• Working knowledge of relevant Australian codes, standards and grid-connection requirements.
• Strong design-assurance, problem-solving and stakeholder-management capability.
• Commercial awareness of electrical vendors, major cost drivers and the Australian construction market.
• An Electrical Engineering qualification; chartership and professional registration are preferred.

The opportunity

You will join WDDP early enough to shape its electrical design standards and influence decisions that will carry through multiple delivery phases. It is a hands-on client-side role at the centre of a technically complex, high-profile Queensland development.

Apply

North Search is Zerra DC's recruitment partner for the Western Downs Digital Park. Apply via LinkedIn or contact [e-mail] for a confidential discussion.