Data Center Design Manager (Electrical)

Eaton Corporation is a diversified energy management company that achieved a revenue of nearly $25 billion in 2024. With energy efficient solutions, we support our customers in more effective, safer, more efficient, and more sustainable management of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical energy. Eaton is committed to improving quality of life and protecting the environment using our energy management technologies and services. The company employs approximately 92,000 people and sells products to customers in more than 175 countries.\n\nData Center is a complex application and a strategic growth area for Eaton. It has unique characteristics derived from the fact that it straddles IT and facility, and that the Data Center and IT are in the middle of a radical transformation due to the combination of digitization and surge of AI loads driving a fast growth in power needs on the one hand, and de-carbonization and grid saturation on other hand.\n\nFor our Data Center Design Engineering Team supporting the South Zone, we are seeking a Spain\u2011based Data Center Design Manager (Electrical), reporting into the EMEA Director of Engineering - DC Segment \\- You will be responsible for managing the design, development, and implementation of innovative data center solutions. This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong technical background in data center design and a passion for driving innovation.\n\n## What you\u2019ll do:\n\n * Act as Design Manager on data center projects, leading the electrical design scope from concept, through detailed design, to construction support and closeout.\n * Remain hands on in electrical design, providing technical leadership and ownership of critical design aspects for mission critical facilities.\n * Lead and coordinate electrical engineers and SMEs as part of a multidisciplinary design team on both large and small projects.\n * Manage design deliverables, resources, schedules, and quality across assigned projects.\n * Provide expert technical guidance and mentoring to the DC Design \u0026 Engineering team.\n * Develop, implement, and uphold electrical design quality standards, procedures, and best practices.\n * Review and approve electrical designs, calculations, reports, and specifications, undertaking and facilitating formal peer reviews.\n * Act as a client facing technical lead, attending and contributing to client, contractor, and Eaton internal meetings.\n * Lead project teams during value engineering, optioneering, and technical decision-making stages.\n * Participate in and lead project site visits to monitor, review, and resolve electrical installation and commissioning matters.\n * Collaborate with project management, commercial, and construction teams to ensure successful project outcomes.\n\n\n\n## Qualifications:\n\n * BSc / MSc in Electrical Engineering. A Master\u2019s degree is preferred.\n * 8-10 Years of Experience.\n\n\n\n## Skills:\n\n * Proven experience delivering the full suite of electrical engineering services for mission critical facilities, including (but not limited to): MV and LV power distribution/Transformers/UPS and standby generation systems.\n * Strong knowledge of relevant electrical codes, standards, and accepted industry best practices.\n * Experience undertaking value engineering and integrating new technologies to deliver cost effective, resilient client solutions.\n * Working knowledge of AutoCAD and Revit is advantageous.\n * Familiarity with emerging technologies such as edge computing and AI.\n * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.\n * Ability to think strategically and drive long-term innovation.\n\n\n\n## What we offer:\n\n * Competitive compensation and benefits package\n * Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team\n * We make your aspirations matter \u2013 Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible\n * We make your growth matter \\- We invest in our employees for the long term \u2013 not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University\n * We make your contributions matter \\- reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people\u2019s lives and the environment through power management technologies.\n * We make your wellbeing matter \u2013 We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it\u2019s about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen.\n\n\n\n#LI-AM7\n\nWe are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.\n