Senior Electrical Engineer - Critical Infrastructure Facilities

Senior Electrical Engineer - Critical Infrastructure Facilities

Location: Hemel Hempstead, with occasional UK and international travel
Salary: £85,000 + £6,750 car allowance + 15% bonus
Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to join a leading global data centre operator.

Predominantly based at a major site in Hemel Hempstead, you will support regional engineering and critical facilities operations teams across the construction, testing, commissioning, management and operation of complex electrical infrastructure. You will play an important role in maintaining reliability, improving efficiency and ensuring consistently high engineering standards.

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior electrical professional with strong critical-environment experience to take ownership of large-scale systems and influence technical standards across a wider regional portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Help define and implement technical operations standards across the regional portfolio.
• Ensure electrical infrastructure is effectively maintained, optimised and operated safely.
• Support the development of energy-related business cases for infrastructure improvements.
• Conduct routine site tours and ad hoc inspections of critical facilities.
• Attend internal and external engineering and quality audits.
• Review and develop commissioning procedures, including processes involving specialist subcontractors.
• Lead post-handover lessons-learned meetings to support continuous improvement.
• Review the operational performance of electrical infrastructure and provide regular stakeholder updates.
• Work with the training department to develop the technical capability of regional personnel.
• Undertake project management duties, including planning, costing, procurement, subcontractor selection, supervision and delivery.
• Participate in the regional call-out and escalation team when required.

About You

You will be an experienced electrical engineering professional with a strong background in critical infrastructure and high-availability environments.

Ideally, you will have:

• A bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Several years' experience working with electrical systems in a large-scale critical environment.
• Experience within data centres, telecommunications, power generation, IT infrastructure or a comparable technical sector.
• Excellent technical knowledge of HV, LV, UPS, standby power, BMS, EMS and associated control systems.
• Experience leading HV switching operations and acting as a subject-matter expert or Authorising Engineer.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders in a technical critical-infrastructure function.
• A strong understanding of operational and maintenance governance principles.
• Familiarity with SOP and EOP development and the Change Advisory Board process.
• Knowledge of discrimination, short-circuit and arc-flash studies.
• Experience operating in a European or multicultural environment.
• Knowledge of the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle and Root Cause Analysis frameworks.
• A recognised European health and safety qualification, although this is desirable rather than essential.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Knowledge of EN 50110, REBT-2002 or a comparable electrical safety standard.
• Flexibility to travel nationally and internationally, potentially up to 30%.

Salary and Benefits

The package includes:

• £85,000 basic salary
• £6,750 car allowance
• 15% Annual Bonus
• Private healthcare
• Pension contributions matched up to 5%
• Daily meal allowance for qualifying working days
• Fitness membership contribution
• Bike leasing scheme
• Optical allowance
• Birthday and new-parent vouchers
• Team and company events
• Employee discount platform and Tastecard
• Four times salary life assurance

Apply

If you are an experienced electrical engineer with a background in critical infrastructure and would like to take on a senior, technically influential position within the data centre sector, please apply with your latest CV to [email removed] or call [phone removed]

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