Senior Electric Engineer

Schneider Electric Corp; España; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead design of power systems for data centers and customer projects. You will develop proposals, drawings, and specifications, ensuring cost-effective and compliant solutions while coordinating with customers, sub-consultants, and internal teams.

Responsibilities span tender, design, and construction phases, including code analyses, basis of design, system diagrams, and on-site support.

Qualifications

• Good English speaking, written and verbal skills.
• Good communication and teamwork in a multi-discipline engineering environment.
• Strong knowledge of Schneider portfolio and Microsoft tools.
• 5 years of experience in Power Systems Design.
• Data Center design experience.
• Experience with SKM, ETAP or Easypower.
• Experience with Generators, UPSs, and Schneider/APC products.
• Electrical panel design experience Prisma, Okken, Blockset.
• MV design experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Tender Phase activities to document project requirements.
• Develop design documents, bid specs, and systems diagrams.
• Perform code analyses and basis of design for the project.
• Provide engineering support to other teams and on-site personnel.
• Produce as-builts and assist with change orders.
• Attend construction meetings and support with RFIs.

Skills

Power Systems Design

Data Center Design

Generators & UPS

Schneider Portfolio Knowledge

REVIT and CAD

Microsoft Office / tools

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Electrical safety codes knowledge

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Power Systems Experience

Data Center design experience

Tools

SKM

ETAP

Easypower

Schneider Electric/APC products knowledge

Job description

Role purpose

Senior Electrical Engineer (SEE) is responsible for:

• Developing design proposals, specifications, drawings, and other data to evaluate the feasibility, cost implications, and maintenance requirements of designs or applications.

SEE will identify the project requirements, provide design solutions to meet the customer and site requirements, and ensure the customer’s best interests are protected during the project.

SEE will provide design solutions to meet the customer and site requirements, and ensure the customer’s best interests are protected during the project. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Facilitate meetings and interviews with customer and sub-consultants.

Able to handle different type of projects, customer projects, R&D projects and quick efforts, quality support, services support.

Responsibilities

Tender Phase

• Participates in the programming of the project with the customer or customer representative to understand and document the owner’s project requirements. Influence on solution to drive.
• Understand the codes and ordinances local to the opportunity/project.
• Solutions Development: Provide appropriate design documents to support the proposal and allow the estimating team to assemble cost for the proposal. These design documents should identify at a minimum the following as applicable:
• Identification of major infrastructure equipment
• Bid specifications for the major/long lead equipments.
• Sapace and site layout.
• Systems diagrams (SLDs), load calculations.
• Provide review of major equipment quotes for technical compliance from vendors. (Estimating team shall be responsible for soliciting and gathering the quotes)
• Provide estimate to develop the final design documents and construction administration as appropriate for the project.
• Solicit, review, and approve sub-consultant proposals to provide a complete set of design documents for the project.
• Provide the technical narrative for the critical infrastructure to be incorporated into the proposal.

Design Phase

• Perform code analysis for the project.
• Take the lead for the basis of design for the project, including redundancy requirements, detailed design, detailed calculations, validate product selection, etc.
• Engineering support function, supporting requests from other engineering teams, factory, commisiong, sub-contractors, services, site support.
• Support on System sequence of operation (SOO)
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Construction Phase

• Provide support and response to request for information and factories support.
• Validate internal and external factories & subcontractors design, i.e. approval for multiwiring diagrams.
• Participate in recurring construction meeting as required.
• Assist the construction team during construction team for clarification, changes, corrections, value engineering, etc.
• Provide assistance to the construction team for change order requests
• Provide as-builts drawings at the end of the project from redlines provided by the construction team and site verification

SKILLS & CAPABILITIES

• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Attend new products trainings and events to improve knowledge and capabilities.
• Prepare and schedule trainings as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) to other engineers
• Social media, internal networking, ability to work in internations environment. Teamwork skills.
• Being familiar with a variety of the field´s concepts, practices and procedures.

SECONDARY FUNCTIONS

• Travel to customer sites experiencing issues to support the technical resolution .
• Participate in Offer Safety related meetings.

EDUCATION, EXPERINCE & SKILLS

• Good English speaking, written and verbal skills
• Good Communication skills
• Good capability to work in a Multi Discipline Engineering team
• Good acknowledge on Schneider portfolio.
• Good capability to work with Microsoft tools, REVIT & CAD.
• 5 years of experience in Power Systems Design.
• Data Center design experience.
• Experience on simulation tools such as SKM, ETAP or Easypower.
• Experience with Generators, UPSs, Schneider Electric & APC products background, desired.
• Electrical panel design experience Prisma, Okken, Blockset background.
• Grounding designs as per IEC, IEEE & TIA 607-B standards.
• Background in MV designs is a plus.

What's in it for me?

• Work on high-visibility projects where your designs shape critical infrastructure and customer success
• Grow your technical depth while building leadership and mentoring capabilities
• Join a team that champions innovation, quality, and collaborative problem-solving
• Gain exposure to diverse electrical systems and cutting-edge technologies across global markets

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