Electrical Engineer-Data Center-Onsite Nashville, TN

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the electrical power-generation subject-matter expert throughout design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operations support.
• Define electrical system architecture, capacity, redundancy, protection, grounding, controls interfaces, and operational-readiness requirements.
• Lead design and technical reviews for gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generators, alternators, generator step-up transformers, generator breakers, paralleling switchgear, load banks, fuel-system electrical interfaces, and balance-of-plant equipment.
• Develop and validate generator synchronization, load-sharing, paralleling, island-mode, black-start, utility-transfer, and restoration strategies.
• Review electrical one-line diagrams, schematics, cable schedules, protection diagrams, equipment specifications, and vendor submittals.
• Perform or review short-circuit, load-flow, arc-flash, grounding, harmonic, and protective-device coordination studies.
• Coordinate electrical interfaces between generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, automatic transfer switches, utility service, and data center distribution systems.
• Partner with mechanical, I&C, controls, construction, delivery, commissioning, and operations teams to ensure integrated and operable infrastructure.
• Provide technical oversight during construction, including field inspections, quality reviews, installation verification, change management, punch-list resolution, and issue escalation.
• Develop and oversee commissioning plans for generator startup, electrical energization, relay testing, switchgear testing, load-bank testing, integrated systems testing, black-start testing, and utility-transfer testing.
• Lead root-cause analysis for electrical faults, generator trips, protective-relay operations, power-quality events, failed starts, and recurring reliability issues.
• Develop electrical operating procedures, maintenance strategies, emergency-response plans, spare-parts recommendations, and lifecycle replacement plans.
• Ensure complete turnover documentation, including as-built drawings, relay settings, test reports, commissioning records, equipment manuals, training materials, warranty information, and asset records.
• Support operations through periodic testing, outage planning, event analysis, capacity upgrades, equipment replacement, and continuous reliability improvement.

• Ensure compliance with applicable electrical safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• 10years+ of extensive experience with electrical power generation, medium-voltage systems, and mission-critical or industrial electrical infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generation, alternators, generator controls, synchronization, load sharing, and paralleling switchgear.
• Experience with switchgear, transformers, protective relays, power distribution, grounding, and electrical power-system studies.
• Demonstrated experience delivering power infrastructure from design through construction, commissioning, and operational handover.
• Ability to interpret and develop one-line diagrams, electrical schematics, protection diagrams, equipment specifications, and commissioning procedures.
• Strong cross-functional coordination, technical writing, vendor-management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.

• Ability to support 24/7 critical operations, maintenance windows, and emergency events.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hyperscale or enterprise data centers, microgrids, distributed energy resources, or utility-scale generation.
• Familiarity with IEEE, IEC, NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, NEC, NETA, OSHA, and relevant utility/interconnection requirements.
• Experience with SEL, GE, Siemens, ABB/Hitachi Energy, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Caterpillar, Cummins, Wärtsilä, MTU/Rolls-Royce, GE Vernova, or Siemens Energy equipment.
• Professional Engineer license, NETA certification, or equivalent power-systems credential.