Electrical Design Engineer (Data Center)

The IDC Engineering team provides various services to support the Alibaba global business growth. The team works with different project delivery teams to achieve that. The project team is typically composed of internal teams, which include the procurement team, TPM team, and operations team. Together, we work with outside vendors to meet the business's global needs.

Job Description

• Collaborate with internal stake-holders to define project design criteria and develop Basis of Design
• Technical leader managing the consultants to implement the project through schematic design, design development, to construction documents
• Technical leader managing the design build contractor to ensure the project meets the business and technical needs defined in the BOD
• Provide construction administrative support to the project manager during construction. Task include but not limited to, responding to RFI’s, issuance of technical bulletins, review submittals and shop-drawings, conducting source inspections at vendor factories and participating in the data center construction commissioning process
• Provide and analyze energy efficient solutions to minimize power losses
• Review and develop detailed scripts for change management request (CMR) activities
• Travel to data center sites for engineering studies, electrical systems audits, startup testing, and full commissioning, as required
• Provide electrical mission critical system review services to local data center operations teams
• Participate in equipment failure or power outage related incident Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA)
• Provide instructions to design consultants, installation contractors and validate quality of installed works
• Respond on an as-needed basis to emergencies

Job Requirement

• BS in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of seven (7) years professional experience in building design and construction
• Knowledge of high voltage (115kV, 12kV) substation design and mission critical power distribution systems (data center topologies, PLC based transfer controllers, generators, UPS, PDU, and Building Management System)
• Knowledge of industry standards, building codes and safety standards including NFPA, UFC and UBC
• Experience with the construction and cost estimating process
• Cross-discipline knowledge of complete critical facility systems
• Trouble shooting and analytical skills
• Ability to provide solutions to projects under pressure
• Experience with AutoCAD, Visio, Bluebeam and SKM software
• Ability to travel regionally and overseas (up to 30%)
• Bilingual in Mandarin Chinese is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Electrical Professional Engineer registration
• Data center or mission critical design, construction and operations

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