Electrical Lead - Data Centres

COWI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days' holiday

Private health care

Flexible/hybrid working

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Maternity Leave

Paternity Leave

Electric vehicle lease

Annual Rail card

Job summary

COWI is seeking an Electrical Design Lead to drive the electrical design strategy for large-scale data centre projects. Based in London, the role involves leading MV/LV power distribution design, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, and delivering clean, reliable electrical infrastructure from concept through commissioning.

You will mentor engineers, supervise design work, and ensure quality and compliance with standards while supporting procurement and commissioning activities.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience delivering technically sound solutions as a discipline lead.
• Proficient with Amtech and digital design tools; BIM experience with Revit/OpenBuildings.
• Familiarity with energy reduction methods and sustainable design.
• Awareness of EN 50600, TIA 942 and related standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of MV/LV power distribution for data centres.
• Coordinate electrical building services including lighting, fire, security, earthing.
• Review designs, calculations, reports and documentation for compliance.
• Mentor electrical engineers and designers within the discipline.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and clients to deliver integrated solutions.
• Conduct technical assurance reviews and manage design risks and changes.
• Support procurement with evaluations and vendor submissions.
• Participate in commissioning, testing and handover activities.
• Ensure adherence to quality management and project delivery processes.
• Promote health, safety, sustainability and resilience best practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Problem solving

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Chartered Engineer or equivalent

Tools

Amtech

Revit

OpenBuildings Designer

Job description

Do you want to be a part of a growing MEP team? Can you collaborate with colleagues across UK & International projects? Are you experienced in hyperscale data centre design? Then this could be the next adventure in your career.

Grow COWI’s international data centre business

Data centres are a strategic growth area at COWI. As we scale our presence in this market, we are enhancing our multidisciplinary capabilities and working closely with clients to develop reliable, efficient and sustainable data centre solutions. In this role, you will engage closely with clients, colleagues and partners to develop and deliver data centre projects from early concept through design and implementation.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

Thanks to continued expansion we have an opportunity for an Electrical Design Lead to join us. This is a key leadership position, responsible for driving the electrical design strategy and technical delivery of large-scale, mission critical data centre projects from concept through to commissioning.

Working from our new Bishopsgate offices in London (with travel to Scandinavia as required), you’ll liaise closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams, clients and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities of the Electrical Lead Engineer

The Electrical Lead Engineer will provide technical leadership for the design and delivery of mission critical electrical infrastructure supporting high-density data centre environments, including liquid-cooled and air-cooled IT deployments. The role will be responsible for ensuring the safe, resilient, efficient, and scalable integration of power systems to support evolving rack densities, advanced cooling technologies, and future capacity expansion requirements, while maintaining compliance with project standards, statutory requirements, and client objectives.

• Lead the design and delivery of MV/LV power distribution systems, including oversight of single line diagrams, load schedules, cable calculations, protection schemes, and equipment specifications.
• Manage the design and coordination of electrical building services systems, including lighting, emergency lighting, fire alarm, security, earthing, bonding, and lightning protection.
• Review and approve electrical designs, calculations, reports, specifications, and technical documentation to ensure compliance with project requirements and applicable standards.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to electrical engineers and designers.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, clients, and stakeholders to deliver integrated design solutions.
• Undertake technical assurance reviews to verify engineering quality, design robustness, and compliance with statutory, client, and company requirements.
• Identify and manage technical risks, design changes, and engineering issues throughout the design process.
• Support procurement activities through technical evaluations, equipment selection, and review of vendor submissions.
• Contribute to commissioning, testing, and handover activities to ensure systems perform in accordance with the design intent.
• Ensure adherence to company quality management systems, governance procedures, and project delivery processes.
• Promote best practice in health, safety, sustainability, resilience, and operational reliability.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• A degree in Electrical Engineering
• Achieved Chartered Engineer status or a similar professional qualification
• The ability to provide technically sound solutions alone and as a discipline lead.
• Experience in using related software including Amtech & other digital design packages.
• Proficiency in working with BIM software such as Revit, Open Buildings Designer or similar.
• Awareness and knowledge of energy reduction methods, carbon calculations, and sustainable design (particularly low energy)
• Familiarity with relevant standards and structured delivery frameworks (e.g. EN 50600, TIA 942, RIBA or equivalent)

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun, because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

• 28days' holidayplus all UKbank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you anda contribution from you foryour immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance
• Maternity Leave: 1-20weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)

Optional benefits include

• Electric vehicle lease
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)

Got more questions

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Laura Dobson [e-mail] Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com , where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.