Senior Project Engineer (Data Centre Retrofit)

Overview

As a Senior Project Engineer, you will lead electrical retrofit and upgrade projects in live data centre environments across the UK and EMEA, ensuring safe, minimal-disruption upgrades. You’ll work within a specialist retrofit team, collaborating with clients and vendors to deliver high-complexity projects. The role combines design, planning and execution with a focus on resilience and live-system integration. This opportunity offers direction, technical leadership and hands-on delivery in mission-critical settings.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working with a 9-day fortnight
• 25 days annual leave plus statutory entitlements
• Pension scheme and health insurance allowance
• Professional development and chartership support, including fees
• Regular training and funded college courses
• Travel expense reimbursement

Responsibilities

• Lead design, planning and delivery of electrical retrofit projects in operational data centres
• Develop strategies for live system tie-ins, outage planning and resilience
• Conduct or manage technical assessments to unlock additional capacity
• Produce and review technical documentation, schematics and reports
• Manage budgets, timelines and mitigate live-environment risks
• Liaise with clients, contractors and vendors for seamless execution
• Enforce QA processes and compliance
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across the retrofit team

Key requirements

• Demonstrable experience delivering electrical works in live data centre or mission-critical environments
• Strong understanding of LV/MV distribution, UPS systems and standby generator integration
• Skilled with AutoCAD and Revit; experience using Amtech, ETAP or similar tools is preferred
• Degree-qualified in Electrical Engineering or comparable discipline
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in building services engineering, including high-complexity retrofit projects
• In-depth knowledge of IEC, BS and related standards

• Stakeholder liaison and client-facing communication
• Leadership and mentoring
• Problem-solving under live conditions
• AutoCAD
• Revit
• Amtech

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