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You will lead electrical design teams, act as a key technical interface with clients and partners, and have the opportunity to shape how COWI develops and delivers electrical design for data centres across the Nordics and internationally.\nGrow COWI’s international data centre business\nData centres are a strategic growth area at COWI, and we are continuing to strengthen our capabilities and position in this market. As Electrical Lead, you will combine technical leadership on major projects with significant influence on how we approach electrical design and develop consistent ways of working across our data centre business.\nYou will work closely with clients, Senior Project Managers, Project Directors, Design Managers and multidisciplinary engineering teams across different project stages. You will work in an English-speaking environment alongside colleagues across the Nordics and the UK.\nYour key responsibilities will be to:\nAct as the technical electrical lead towards clients, partners and other external stakeholders, translating project requirements into appropriate technical solutions\nLead electrical design teams on large-scale data centre projects, with overall responsibility for the electrical design delivery.\nPlan and manage the electrical design process, coordinating resources, activities, interfaces and deliverables across project stages and delivery teams.\nLead the technical development of data centre electrical power systems and technical architecture, covering critical power, MV/LV distribution, UPS, generators, redundancy and resilience, as well as ICC, BMS and ELV systems and their interfaces with other technical disciplines.\nEnsure technical quality and consistency of the electrical design, providing senior technical direction and supporting key design decisions and complex interfaces.\nContribute to the continued development of COWI’s data centre capabilities, helping shape our technical approaches and ways of working across projects and international delivery teams.\nYour skills. 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You communicate clearly, work effectively across disciplines and bring a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach to complex engineering challenges.\nTo be considered for this role, you should have:\nA degree in Electrical Engineering or similar.\nDirect experience from large-scale data centre projects.\nProven experience leading or taking significant technical responsibility for electrical design and engineering in complex projects.\nStrong understanding of data centre electrical design and sufficient technical breadth to lead the wider electrical scope and its key technical interfaces.\nExperience leading engineers or technical teams, combined with the confidence and communication skills to represent the electrical discipline towards clients and senior project stakeholders.\nStrong communication skills in English and the ability to work effectively in international project teams.\nFamiliarity with relevant data centre standards and structured delivery frameworks such as EN 50600, TIA-942, RIBA or equivalent is an advantage.\nData centre experience is a requirement for this position.\nSome projects may be subject to specific security requirements, and the ability to obtain relevant security clearance may be required.\nWork location\nThe role can be based in any of our offices across Norway. This includes offices in:\nBergen, Bodø, Drammen, Fredrikstad, Hamar, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Oslo, Stavanger, Tromsø and Trondheim.\nWe work in international and multidisciplinary teams, and many of our projects are delivered across offices and borders.\nDo you have more questions?\nIf you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Sophia Walfridsson Haugen at . Get to know our work with data centre projects even better here: Can you make tomorrow’s digital infrastructure feel at home?\nA place to work and so much more\nAt COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity - and sometimes even our courage - to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.\nWe value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.\nBefore you apply\nAll you need to include in your application is your CV - no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining COWI. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture. 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