Senior Electrical Operations Engineer - Remote/Travel

PTR Global; Delaware; Remote; USD 250,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K

PTO & sick leave

Job summary

PTR Global is seeking a Principal Operations Engineer, Electrical to act as the senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure across a hyperscale data-center fleet. The role requires leading site assessments, audits, and readiness efforts, ensuring commissioning-to-operations handoffs for new sites with substantial travel.

Key responsibilities include defining and enforcing electrical operational readiness, authoring high-risk MOPs/EOPs/AOPs, and collaborating across

Qualifications

• Extensive experience running mission-critical electrical systems, with a background in trades or field operations.
• Strong knowledge of switchgear, UPS systems, generators, paralleling, ATS/STS, PDUs, and EPMS in live critical environments.
• Proven experience authoring and executing high-risk electrical MOPs.
• Experience leading root-cause analysis for significant electrical events through resolution.
• Ability to assess operational readiness, audit site posture, and raise technical standards.
• Strong technical-readiness and team-development capabilities.
• Preferred experience with hyperscale or large colocation environments operating at hundreds of megawatts.
• Preferred expertise in NETA, NFPA 70E, EPMS platforms, arc-flash and electrical-safety programs, and Uptime Institute standards.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure.
• Lead site assessments, operational audits, and technical-readiness efforts before site activation.
• Review designs and specifications from an operational perspective and provide feedback.
• Own electrical operational readiness and commissioning-to-operations handoffs for new sites.
• Author and approve high-risk electrical MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs.
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant electrical events through closure.
• Collaborate with operations, design, construction, hardware, and EHS teams.
• Act as a technical force multiplier for cluster leads and field engineers.
• Travel approximately 50%-75% across the data-center fleet.

Skills

Electrical systems

Field operations background

Root-cause analysis

Operational readiness

Team development

Tools

Switchgear and UPS

Generators

EPMS platforms

Arc-flash safety

NFPA 70E

Job description

PTR Global is seeking a Principal Operations Engineer, Electrical to act as the senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure across a hyperscale data-center fleet. The role requires leading site assessments, audits, and readiness efforts, ensuring commissioning-to-operations handoffs for new sites with substantial travel.

Key responsibilities include defining and enforcing electrical operational readiness, authoring high-risk MOPs/EOPs/AOPs, and collaborating across