Director Electrical Engineering

Integra•Dallas, TX

16h

About The Position

The Director of Electrical Engineering leads the design, development, implementation, operation, and optimization of electrical infrastructure for hyperscale, colocation, and AI-focused data center projects. The role provides strategic and technical leadership for mission-critical systems supporting high-density computing, GPU clusters, artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads, cloud infrastructure, and other digital technologies. It oversees engineering teams responsible for medium- and high-voltage systems, power generation, substations, switchgear, UPS systems, battery energy storage, renewable energy integration, power distribution, energy efficiency, and electrical reliability. The Director ensures infrastructure meets resiliency, scalability, sustainability, safety, and operational excellence standards, including Tier III and Tier IV uptime requirements. The Director serves as the subject matter expert for mission-critical electrical infrastructure and partners with operations, construction, commissioning, development, sustainability, and executive leadership teams. The role develops electrical engineering strategies and long-term infrastructure roadmaps for AI, hyperscale, cloud, and data center operations; evaluates emerging technologies; advises executive leadership on investment, capacity planning, scalability, and risk; and establishes engineering standards, policies, procedures, and design guidelines. The Director leads and mentors engineering teams and manages electrical design and operations, reliability, sustainability, utility integration, commissioning, construction support, staffing, performance management, and succession planning. Integra is a vertically integrated data center solutions company that manages work from site selection and design through manufacturing, procurement, commissioning, and warranty. Its culture emphasizes collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, an MBA, or a master's degree in Power Systems Engineering.
15 or more years of electrical engineering experience.
10 or more years leading engineering teams within mission-critical environments.
Experience supporting hyperscale, colocation, or enterprise data centers.
Experience with AI data center infrastructure development.
Experience supporting facilities exceeding 50 MW of critical load.
Experience with medium-voltage and high-voltage infrastructure design.
Experience leading large-scale capital projects exceeding $100 million.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer (PE) license.
Certified Energy Manager (CEM).
Data Center Certified Associate (DCCA).
Data Center Professional (CDCP).
Certified Data Centre Expert (CDCE).
PMP certification.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute electrical engineering strategies for AI, hyperscale, cloud, and mission-critical data center operations, including long-term infrastructure roadmaps for future computing demands and increased rack power densities.
Evaluate and implement emerging technologies related to AI infrastructure, electrical resiliency, and energy optimization; advise executive leadership on infrastructure investments, capacity planning, scalability, and risk mitigation.
Develop engineering standards, policies, procedures, and design guidelines across the organization.
Lead, mentor, and manage electrical engineering teams, managers, engineers, designers, specialists, and commissioning engineers; develop staffing plans and conduct performance management and succession planning.
Oversee the design, operation, and reliability of utility service entrances, high-voltage connections, substations, transformer yards, medium- and low-voltage distribution, generator plants, UPS systems, BESS, transfer switches, switchgear, switchboards, PDUs, RPPs, busways, rack-level distribution, grounding and bonding, arc-flash mitigation, and power monitoring and energy management systems.
Lead engineering efforts supporting GPU clusters, AI training, machine learning, HPC, cloud operations, high-density servers, liquid-cooled computing, direct-to-chip cooling, and high-density racks exceeding 50 kW, 80 kW, and 120+ kW.
Lead multidisciplinary teams in conceptual, preliminary, and detailed electrical design; review and approve drawings, calculations, and specifications; establish design standards; and ensure resiliency, redundancy, client, and regulatory requirements are met.
Manage engineering support during commissioning and startup activities.
Ensure infrastructure designs meet Tier III and Tier IV reliability objectives and drive initiatives to achieve 99.999% uptime objectives.
Manage electrical risk assessments and infrastructure resiliency studies.
Lead sustainability initiatives, evaluate solar, wind, battery, and microgrid technologies, and improve PUE.
Use the internal Substation team to manage utility interconnection projects, lead utility negotiations and infrastructure planning, and support transmission and distribution planning.
Coordinate electrical capacity expansion efforts and review internal load forecasts and energy demand projections.
Support integrated systems testing and construction project execution, and verify electrical systems perform as designed before operational turnover.
Support strategic growth initiatives in partnership with operations, construction, commissioning, development, sustainability, and executive leadership.