Data Center Design Project Manager - Electrical

Kent Data Centres; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent Data Centres is seeking a Data Center Design Project Manager / Electrical SME to lead engagements across the Americas. You will coordinate engineers, review designs, and guide narratives and specifications for critical electrical infrastructure in data centers.

Based in Houston or Dallas with travel, you will manage scope, budgets, and change while ensuring alignment with client standards and industry reliability frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or closely related discipline.
• 7+ years of electrical design/engineering experience in data center sector.
• Experience in engineering consultancy or data center design consultancy.
• Strong hands-on understanding of data center electrical design beyond trades.
• Experience delivering electrical design through multiple project stages (concept to construction).
• Knowledge of critical power systems, resilience and maintainability in data centers.
• Ability to review electrical designs, one-line diagrams, calculations, specs.

Responsibilities

• Own client relationships and act as the primary technical contact across data center design engagements.
• Lead electrical design and technical delivery from feasibility through handover.
• Coordinate internal and external engineering specialists to deliver integrated designs.
• Lead development and review of Basis of Design, design criteria, narratives, specs, deliverables.
• Provide guidance on reliability, redundancy, and maintainability, including N, N+1, 2N.

Skills

Electrical design

Client facing

Project leadership

Data center knowledge

Design coordination

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Team management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

PE advantageous

PMP

ATD/CDCDP

Job description

Data Center Design Project Manager - Electrical

Kent Data Centres is built on more than a century of engineering expertise within Kent, a global leader in integrated energy services.

We operate exclusively in data center and critical environments, acting as lead consultants, technical advisors, and commissioning partners while supporting clients from feasibility through design, delivery, and operational handover.

To support our continued growth in the Americas, we're looking for client-facing Technical Project Managers / Data Centre SMEs to lead engagements across the region.

ABOUT YOU:

Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

OUR PURPOSE AND BELIEFS:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG

We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY

We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE

We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us: https://kentplc.com/who-we-are/purpose-beliefs

OUR VISION FOR DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING:

We recognize that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

• Own client relationships and act as the primary technical point of contact across data center design and consultancy engagements.
• Lead the electrical design and technical delivery of data center projects from early feasibility and concept through detailed design, construction support, commissioning and operational handover.
• Act as Design Project Manager / Electrical SME, coordinating internal and external engineering specialists to deliver integrated, high-quality designs.
• Lead development and review of Basis of Design, design criteria, technical narratives, specifications and stage deliverables.
• Provide technical leadership across critical electrical infrastructure including utility interfaces, MV/LV distribution, transformers, generators, UPS systems, switchgear, power distribution, grounding, redundancy and resilience strategies.
• Provide guidance on data center reliability, redundancy and maintainability requirements, including N, N+1, 2N and concurrently maintainable design principles.
• Lead design reviews, technical workshops, value-engineering sessions and client presentations.
• Review electrical drawings, single-line diagrams, calculations, specifications and technical submissions for completeness, compliance and design intent.
• Coordinate electrical design requirements with mechanical, controls, ICT/ELV, civil, structural, architectural and commissioning disciplines.
• Ensure designs comply with applicable US codes, local AHJ requirements, client standards and recognized data center design standards.
• Manage design risks, interfaces, assumptions, technical decisions and change throughout the project lifecycle.
• Challenge designs where appropriate and provide independent technical advice to protect client outcomes around resilience, maintainability, efficiency, cost and program.
• Manage external design consultants and engineering partners, including scope, deliverables, quality and schedule.
• Own the quality and technical assurance of project deliverables before issue to the client.
• Support construction-phase technical queries, RFIs, submittal reviews and design clarifications while maintaining responsibility for design intent.
• Work closely with commissioning teams to ensure the electrical design supports testing, commissioning, integrated systems testing and operational readiness.
• Interface directly with clients, owners, developers, contractors, vendors and consultants throughout bidding, design, delivery and closeout.
• Support technical proposals, scopes of work, fee development, bids and client presentations.
• Take commercial responsibility for assigned consultancy engagements, including scope, budget, margin, resource planning and change control.
• Identify project risks and opportunities and communicate them clearly to clients and senior leadership.
• Support the continued growth of Kent Data Centres in the Americas through strong client relationships, repeat business and technically excellent delivery.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
• 7+ years of electrical design / engineering experience, with significant experience within the data center sector.
• Demonstrable experience working within an engineering consultancy, A/E practice or specialist data center design consultancy.
• Strong hands‑on understanding of data center electrical design rather than solely construction, installation or trade‑package management.
• Experience delivering electrical design through multiple project stages, ideally from concept / schematic design through detailed design and construction support.
• Strong knowledge of critical power systems, resilience, redundancy and maintainability within data center environments.
• Ability to review and challenge electrical designs, one-line diagrams, technical calculations, specifications and equipment selections.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary design coordination and the interfaces between electrical, mechanical, controls, ICT and commissioning systems.
• Knowledge of relevant US electrical codes and standards and experience working with local code / AHJ requirements.
• Familiarity with data center standards and reliability frameworks such as Uptime Institute Tier requirements and TIA‑942.
• Proven experience leading client workshops, technical meetings and design reviews.
• Strong client‑facing and advisory presence with the credibility to challenge consultants and guide senior client stakeholders.
• Experience managing engineering teams, SMEs and external design consultants.
• Commercially minded with experience managing project scope, fees, budgets, resources and change.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to translate complex engineering issues into clear client recommendations.
• Experience interfacing with commissioning teams and understanding the relationship between design intent, commissioning and operational readiness.
• PE strongly advantageous; ATD, PMP, CDCDP or equivalent data center qualifications also beneficial.
• Based in, or willing to relocate to, Houston or Dallas, Texas, with willingness to travel across the Americas as required.

About Kent Data Centres

Kent Data Centres operates within Kent's group-wide governance framework, applying consistent standards for safety, quality, technical assurance, and commercial control.

Kent Data Centres teams are experienced in delivering work within live, high-risk, and operationally critical environments, with a clear focus on continuity of service and predictable outcomes across the full asset lifecycle - from early strategy through delivery, commissioning, and operational readiness.