Grid Interconnection & Power Delivery Lead

Iron Mountain Incorporated; Haarlem; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible work options

Health, wellness & retirement plans

Learning & growth opportunities

Job summary

Iron Mountain Incorporated is seeking a senior role focused on coordinating European grid connections for new and existing data center facilities. You will lead negotiations with European TSOs/DSOs, translate technical requirements into commercial plans, and manage delivery timelines across internal teams and external partners.

The position requires extensive cross-functional collaboration and deep knowledge of energy procurement.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of electrical system components and voltages to ensure contracts deliver power per facility needs.
• Meticulous process manager with strong commercial negotiating skills.
• Ability to coordinate across engineering, commercial sales, and external utilities.
• Experience negotiating grid connection contracts with European TSOs and DSOs.
• Willingness to travel across Europe to active project sites and utility offices.

Responsibilities

• Determine the pathway to power: understand system connection processes, parties, and criteria for site needs.
• Lead the negotiation of grid connection agreements with European TSOs and DSOs; translate constraints into operational realities.
• Own the master timeline for power delivery and coordinate project milestones.
• Manage lifecycle of grid access contracts, ensuring utilization thresholds, risk control, and compliance.
• Act as central node between external consultants, utilities, sales, and construction teams.
• Monitor utility requirements against reality to align capacity with customer deployment.

Skills

Technical understanding

Commercial negotiation

Cross-functional teamwork

Energy procurement

Contractual fluency

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, electrical engineering, project management, or energy-related discipline

Job description

At Iron Mountain we know that work, when done well, makes a positive impact for our customers, our employees, and our planet.

We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Determine the Pathway to Power: Know the system connection process for target markets, the responsible parties and the technical criteria for meeting new site needs. This includes a general understanding of system upgrade processes, power redundancy practices, system voltages and components necessary to delivery power.
• Commercial Negotiation & Translation: Lead the negotiation of grid connection agreements (ESAs) with European TSOs and DSOs. You will translate these complex utility contracts and grid constraints into clear operational and commercial realities for IMDC projects and our end customers. This includes validating the technical aspects of power design and delivery to the site, including upstream system resources.
• Process Orchestration: Own the master timeline for power delivery. You will dictate who does what and when, ensuring that local Project Managers for new and existing data center locations hit critical verification, submission, and operational milestones at exactly the right moment.
• Contract Lifecycle Management: Deeply understand the ongoing requirements of our grid access contracts. You will manage the lifetime of the contract, ensuring we meet utilization thresholds, mitigate commercial risk, and maintain compliance long after the initial agreement is signed.
• Cross-Functional & 3rd Party Leadership: Act as the central node between our external technical consultants, utilities, sales teams, and construction teams. You will ensure technical data is seamlessly handed off and applied to the commercial strategy.
• Risk & Timeline Alignment: Actively monitor utility requirements against reality. You will track critical thresholds (such as underutilization clauses or customer ramp-up timelines) to ensure our capacity commitments align with actual customer deployment.

What You’ll Bring (Skills & Qualifications)

• Technical Understanding: Knowledge of electrical system components and voltages sufficient to ensure contracts deliver power aligned to the needs of our new facilities.
• Commercial & Operational Rigor: You are a meticulous process manager and a strong commercial negotiator. You know how to hold cross-functional teams and external utilities accountable to strict timelines.
• Cross-Functional Teamwork: You are highly comfortable and effective at working across different teams. You build solid relationships naturally and can bridge the communication gaps between technical engineers, commercial sales teams, and external utility partners.
• Industry & Utility Expertise: Demonstrable experience in energy procurement, utility relations, or infrastructure project management for energy-intensive consumers. You must have a track record of negotiating directly with European TSOs and DSOs.
• Contractual Fluency: You must be able to read a complex grid connection contract and immediately understand what it means for the project’s construction timeline and the customer’s ramp-up schedule.
• Location: Must be based in the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, or Spain.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, electrical engineering, project management, or an energy-related discipline.
• Pan-European Presence: Willingness and ability to travel as needed to active project sites and utility offices across Europe to ensure critical infrastructure milestones are met and local relationships are maintained.

What We Offer (Benefits)

• Competitive compensation and benefits aligned with the experience.
• Flexible work options to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth.

Category: Real Estate & Facilities

Iron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers’ assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts.

Take a look at our history here.

Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics.

Please see our Values and Code of Ethics for a look at our principles and aspirations in elevating the power of our work together.

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