Data Center Electrical Design Lead – Project Manager

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

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.