Data Center Design Manager (Electrical)

Eaton Group; Montbonnot-Saint-Martin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Internal promotion opportunities

Eaton University learning & growth

Wellbeing and safety programs

Job summary

Eaton Corporation is seeking a France-based Data Center Design Manager (Electrical) to lead the electrical design for mission critical facilities. You will oversee the design lifecycle from concept through construction, while guiding a multidisciplinary team and ensuring high-quality, scalable electrical solutions.

The role demands hands-on electrical design, strong leadership, and a strategic mindset to drive innovation, value engineering, and alignment with project goals.

Qualifications

• BSc / MSc in Electrical Engineering. A Master’s degree is preferred.
• 8–10 years of experience in electrical engineering for mission critical facilities.
• Experience delivering full electrical engineering services for mission critical facilities.

Responsibilities

• Act as Design Manager on data centre projects, leading the electrical design scope from concept to construction support.
• Remain hands-on in electrical design, providing technical leadership for critical facilities.
• Lead and coordinate electrical engineers and SMEs within a multidisciplinary design team.
• Manage design deliverables, resources, schedules and quality across projects.
• Provide expert technical guidance and mentoring to the DC Design & Engineering team.
• Develop and uphold electrical design standards, procedures and best practices.
• Review and approve electrical designs, calculations, and specifications; facilitate peer reviews.
• Attend client, contractor and Eaton internal meetings as the technical lead.

Skills

Electrical design leadership

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

MV/LV power distribution

Transformers

UPS and standby gensets

Electrical codes & standards

Value engineering

AutoCAD / Revit

Multilingual (Spanish/Italian/French &

Education

BSc / MSc in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Job description

Eaton Corporation is a diversified energy management company that achieved a revenue of nearly $25 billion in 2024. With energy efficient solutions, we support our customers in more effective, safer, more efficient, and more sustainable management of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical energy. Eaton is committed to improving quality of life and protecting the environment using our energy management technologies and services. The company employs approximately 92,000 people and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries.

Data Center is a complex application and a strategic growth area for Eaton. It has unique characteristics derived from the fact that it straddles IT and facility, and that the Data Center and IT are in the middle of a radical transformation due to the combination of digitization and surge of AI loads driving a fast growth in power needs on the one hand, and de-carbonization and grid saturation on other hand.

For our Data Center Design Engineering Team supporting the South Zone, we are seeking a France-based Data Center Design Manager (Electrical), reporting into the EMEA Director of Engineering - DC Segment - You will be responsible for managing the design, development, and implementation of innovative data center solutions. This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong technical background in data center design and a passion for driving innovation.

What you’ll do:

Reporting into the EMEA Director of Engineering - DC Segment, the Data Centre Electrical Design Manager will be responsible for managing the design, development, and implementation of innovative data centre solutions. This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong technical background in data centre design and a passion for driving innovation.

This role requires influential technical leader who can drive design innovation, managing engineering teams, lead continuous improvement to enable the delivery of high-quality, efficient, and scalable data centre solutions.

It offers a deep level of engineering support and direction relating to the design, build and operation of large Data Centres. Principally, this relates to the electrical infrastructure, but extends into the overall operational technology found in the Data Centre environment.

The role requires expertise within electromechanical systems such a cooling, building management systems, energy management systems. It also requires a full appreciation of various building construction technologies and challenges. It also requires experience in the project management and supervision of build projects and the delivery of the various product technologies & services required in the Data Centre environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as Design Manager on data centre projects, leading the electrical design scope from concept, through detailed design, to construction support and closeout.
• Remain hands on in electrical design, providing technical leadership and ownership of critical design aspects for mission critical facilities.
• Lead and coordinate electrical engineers and SMEs as part of a multidisciplinary design team on both large and small projects.
• Manage design deliverables, resources, schedules, and quality across assigned projects.
• Provide expert technical guidance and mentoring to the DC Design & Engineering team.
• Develop, implement, and uphold electrical design quality standards, procedures, and best practices.
• Review and approve electrical designs, calculations, reports, and specifications, undertaking and facilitating formal peer reviews.
• Act as a client facing technical lead, attending and contributing to client, contractor, and Eaton internal meetings.
• Lead project teams during value engineering, optioneering, and technical decision making stages.
• Participate in and lead project site visits to monitor, review, and resolve electrical installation and commissioning matters.
• Collaborate with project management, commercial, and construction teams to ensure successful project outcomes.

Qualifications:

• BSc / MSc in Electrical Engineering. A Master's degree is preferred.
• 8-10 Years of Experience.

Skills:

• Proven experience delivering the full suite of electrical engineering services for mission critical facilities, including (but not limited to):
• MV and LV power distribution;
• Transformers;
• UPS and standby generation systems.
• Strong knowledge of relevant electrical codes, standards, and accepted industry best practices.
• Experience undertaking value engineering and integrating new technologies to deliver cost effective, resilient client solutions.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD and Revit is advantageous, but not essential.
• Fluent Spanish and/or Italian/French & English required.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies such as edge computing and AI.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to think strategically and drive long-term innovation.
• Proven experience in building teams and supporting processes.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team.
• We make your aspirations matter - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible.
• We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University.
• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies.
• We make your wellbeing matter - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.