Vice President, Electrical Engineering

STACK Infrastructure•Denver, CO

1d•$259,600 - $287,600•Remote

About The Position

The Vice President, Electrical Engineering leads the Electrical Engineering function, providing its technical direction, organizational development, and execution. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, the role leads the electrical organization and partners with Mechanical Engineering, Technology, Controls, Development, Construction, Operations, Procurement, and other stakeholders. As the senior electrical engineering leader, the VP ensures infrastructure designs are safe, reliable, scalable, cost-effective, constructible, and aligned with company standards, client requirements, project objectives, and operational needs. The position combines technical leadership with people and organizational leadership, including developing the team, managing resources and priorities, driving standardization, supporting project delivery, and establishing accountability. The VP also serves as a senior client-facing technical representative, independently leading technical discussions, explaining engineering concepts and design decisions, evaluating client requirements, and resolving technical issues while balancing client expectations with company standards, project requirements, and business objectives. The role oversees electrical engineering across the project portfolio and lifecycle, from development and conceptual design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover to Operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution; an advanced degree is preferred.
Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
Minimum of 15 years of progressive electrical engineering experience, including significant experience in data center, mission-critical, utility, power, industrial, or similarly complex electrical infrastructure.
Progression into senior engineering leadership roles with responsibility for teams, technical decisions, project execution, and organizational development.
Significant experience leading and developing engineering organizations, including managers, senior engineers, and technical professionals.
Strong technical knowledge of mission-critical electrical infrastructure.
Experience with medium- and low-voltage distribution systems, utility interfaces, substations, transformers, generators, UPS systems, protection systems, grounding, and associated electrical infrastructure.
Strong understanding of electrical-system reliability, redundancy, maintainability, safety, constructability, and operational requirements.
Experience developing and implementing engineering standards, specifications, design criteria, and technical governance processes.
Ability to evaluate complex technical issues and make sound decisions considering technical, commercial, schedule, and operational impacts.
Experience across the project lifecycle, including development, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations.
Experience independently leading client-facing technical meetings, design reviews, technical workshops, and executive-level engineering discussions.
Ability to independently represent the company and Electrical Engineering organization with sophisticated technical clients and external stakeholders.
Strong executive communication, organizational leadership, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to communicate complex technical matters effectively to engineering teams, executive leadership, clients, and non-technical stakeholders.
Must be eligible to work in the United States.
Must pass a comprehensive drug and background screening.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering.
Direct experience in the data center and mission-critical infrastructure industry.
Experience delivering large-scale, high-capacity electrical infrastructure programs across multiple projects or markets.
Experience with utility interconnection and large-scale power-delivery requirements.
Experience working with major electrical equipment manufacturers, engineering consultants, contractors, utilities, and commissioning organizations.
Experience supporting hyperscale or other sophisticated data center clients and translating client technical requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

Lead the Electrical Engineering organization, setting accountability, direction, priorities, and expectations.
Manage, mentor, and develop engineering leaders and individual contributors; build team capabilities and succession plans.
Establish organizational structure, roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority; plan resources and capacity based on workload and business priorities.
Lead recruiting, onboarding, development, and retention, and establish annual objectives and performance expectations.
Provide technical direction across the project portfolio and oversight of electrical infrastructure architecture, including utility interfaces, substations, distribution, generators, UPS systems, energy storage where applicable, grounding, protection, controls interfaces, and related critical infrastructure.
Guide major electrical design decisions, deviations, risks, and escalations; ensure designs address reliability, redundancy, maintainability, safety, constructability, operability, cost, and schedule.
Establish review and approval processes and ensure engineering decisions are documented, communicated, and consistently implemented.
Provide senior technical support for complex project issues and significant field or operational challenges.
Lead client meetings, technical workshops, design reviews, and engineering alignment sessions; explain system architecture, design basis, requirements, decisions, risks, deviations, and proposed solutions.
Evaluate client technical requirements and work with clients to resolve technical differences while maintaining alignment with company standards, project requirements, commercial commitments, and operational objectives.
Provide technical leadership during client due diligence, development, design, construction, commissioning, and other project phases; build client relationships and serve as an escalation point for significant electrical matters.
Represent the company with clients, utilities, consultants, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and other stakeholders, and escalate significant technical, commercial, or relationship risks as appropriate.
Own and maintain electrical design standards, criteria, specifications, and technical requirements; drive repeatability while accommodating applicable site, utility, jurisdictional, client, and project requirements.
Lead evaluation and implementation of technologies, equipment, architectures, and design approaches; govern deviations from standards and incorporate lessons learned into future standards and designs.
Coordinate with other Engineering disciplines to integrate design requirements and maintain awareness of codes, regulations, industry standards, utility requirements, and emerging practices.
Lead electrical engineering across projects from conceptual design through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover to Operations.
Allocate engineering resources across the portfolio, monitor deliverables, decisions, risks, and milestones, and resolve issues that could affect cost, schedule, quality, reliability, or operations.
Support technical-alternative evaluations and project governance; ensure appropriate support during construction, commissioning, energization, and turnover.
Partner with Mechanical Engineering, Technology, and Controls leadership, and collaborate with Development, Construction, Operations, Procurement, Commercial, and other functions.
Support Procurement with technical evaluations, equipment strategies, supplier qualification, and major equipment decisions; work with Construction and Commissioning on constructability, installation, testing, energization, and commissioning.
Engage Operations to ensure designs support long-term reliability, maintainability, safety, and operating requirements; develop productive external stakeholder relationships.
Support the SVP of Engineering in Engineering strategy and develop and execute an Electrical Engineering functional strategy aligned with business growth and portfolio needs.
Identify improvements in design efficiency, standardization, quality, cost, schedule, reliability, and engineering productivity; evaluate relevant technologies and industry developments.
Establish lessons-learned processes and engineering metrics and KPIs to measure performance and organizational effectiveness.