Power and Digital Senior Engineer

Schneider Electric; Italia; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance

Paid time off

Flexible work options

Parental and care leave

Job summary

Schneider Electric in Italy seeks a Senior Innovation Experts Manager to join a global team. The role focuses on Power and Digital domains within cooling data center architectures, collaborating with professionals across borders.

You will drive innovation projects from incubation to feasibility, define roadmaps, and mentor teams while ensuring alignment with global strategies. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in multinational environments, strong engineering background, and proven ability to

Qualifications

• Engineering degree and 5 years in multinational data center or related industries.
• Subject matter expert in Power and Digital domains for cooling/data center.
• Proven ability to translate innovation ideas into actionable projects.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Power and Digital innovation initiatives within the cooling/data center domain.
• Collaborate with global teams to explore technologies, trends and roadmaps.
• Lead some innovation challenges and coordinate others; mentor others.
• Prepare educational content on Digital & Power for cooling applications.

Skills

Power domain expertise

Digital domain expertise

English language (B2)

Innovation project leadership

Data center cooling basics

Education

Engineering degree (Electrical/Electronics/Control, Aerospace, Automation, Energy, Software or similar)

Tools

BMS architectures

Power control systems knowledge

SE digital platforms (Teams, SharePoint, Office365)

Job description

Role

This role reports to the Innovation Experts Manager and operates in a global team. The team conists of other professionals each one with the following structure of skills and competencies:

• One (or more than one) major vertical expertise. In the team the person is identified as the matter expert
• Some other lighter expertises that can be extended and developed to become a matter expert
• A broad understanding of the fundamentals of cooling technologies and architectures for data center

The team is globally responsible for:

• understanding technologies and market trends
• investigating innovative technologies and processes
• generating innovation ideas
• supporting the innovation roadmap creation
• developing innovation projects/challenges (H3, H2, H1) – (incubation – investigation – feasibility)
• providing domain expert level support to the organization on the following areas:
  • Thermodynamics & Refrigerants
  • Mechanical & Electrical units pre-design
  • Power and Digital (BSM, Controls, Software)
  • Simulations (CFDs, steady state, transient)
  • Cooling Technologies
  • Cooling Architectures (at system level)
• Ensuring collaboration, connection and alignment with other innovation efforts within the Cooling LoB, across SP and outside SP (Digital & Service Division)
• Providing deep expertise in the above domains to (but not only to)
  • Internal and external training
  • SE white papers technical writers
  • SE events (writing technical content or as a speaker)
  • SE Venture or executives asking for technical assesments
  • To other SE teams
• Collaborating with Offer Creation and R&D in supporting roadmap development when needed
• Acting as a consultant on the specific domain whenever required

This role is involved in all the activities above with a specific focus on Power (cooling units power architecture and power train for cooling) and nice to have on Digital (BMS, controls and software).

Activities and Responsibilities

Domains definition

• « Power » means the electrical subsytstems of cooling units and distribution architecture at data center level (from grid to chip)

  • AC and 800VDC Fundamentals
  • AC and 800VDC Regulations, compliances and safety
  • AC and 800 VDC Distribution and architectures

• « Digital » includes:

  • BMS architectures in general and on data centers
  • Controls logic and behaviour of thermal/cooling systems
  • Fundamentals of cooling unit software architectures
  • Fundamentals of power control logic
  • SE digital platforms and services offering
  • SE software offering related to cooling or connected to cooling

This role has the following main responsibilities and activities:

• Being expert and updated on the state of the art on his/her vertical domain(s) at least on more than one topic of the above defined domains – 800 VDC is preferred
• Has a more than basic understanding for the remaining vertical domains (e.g. at least two on Digital and one on Power)
• Being aware of the cooling fundamentals for data center
• Knowledge of the current market trends on the Digital&Power for data center
• Ensure broad knowledge sharing and support fruitful collaboration across and outside the teams
• Being autonomous, organized and proactive in planning and execution
• Understand, evaluate and define technologies and market trends on cooling business with focus on Digital&Power
• Drive the effort to translate approved innovation ideas on Digital&Power domains in actionable innovation challenges
• Lead directly some innovation challenges and projects on the Digital&Power domains, coordinate and monitor the others
• Animate the Innovation Community (Core and Extended Teams) on ideas generation through questions, interviews and unofficial networkin
• Join innovation/investigation projects lead by other team as cooling expert on Digital&Power (e.g. Cooling Sequencer for Chillers)
• Keep alignment and consistency across Cooling, Power and Digital Innovation roadmaps
• Elaborate and prepare educational content on Digital&Power for Cooling in data center applications (e.g. 800 V dc landscape and adoption)
• Aligment with the Control Platform Strategy Team with regular updates

KPI: Defined by specific goals, yearly adjusted according to project evolution.

Mandatory Requirements

• Degrees on Engineering (Electrical, Electronics, Control, Aerospace, Automation, Energy, Software or similar).
• 5 year of experiences on multinational companies active on Data Center market, in departments like: Innovation, R&D, Laboratory (validation and testing). Data Center Cooling experiences is a plus
• We evaluate same skill set based on previous experience on industries and market such as: EV vehicles power architecture, charging station, BESS, photovoltaic
• Proven experience on one or more than one vertical domains defined as below:

Power

• 800V DC fundamentals
• 800V DC regulations, compliance and safety
• Electrical subsytstems of a cooling units
• Distribution architecture at data center level (from grid to chip) both AC and 800VDC

Digital

• BMS architectures on data centers
• Knowledge of common used protocols
• Controls logic and behaviour of thermal/cooling systems
• Fundamentals of cooling unit software architectures
• Fundamentals of power control logic
• SE digital platforms and services offering (plus)
• SE software offering related to cooling or connected to cooling (plus)
• Proven more than basic experiences on the remaining domains
• English B2
• Knowledge of Microsoft Collaboration Tools (Teams, Sharepoint, Outlook, Office365).

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