At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead electrical design assurance for a cutting-edge data centre campus in Brisbane.
- Company: Zerra DC, a leader in hyperscale data centre development across Australia.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and the chance to shape innovative infrastructure.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team and influence the technical standards of a major project.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on the future of digital infrastructure and AI technology.
- Qualifications: 10+ years in electrical design, with strong problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 121500 - 148500 $ per year.
Lead the electrical design assurance behind a major new hyperscale and AI-ready data centre campus.
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, with regular travel to Dalby
Reports to: Technical Director
About Zerra DC
Zerra DC develops and operates hyperscale data centre campuses across Australia, Japan and India, delivering capacity at scale into markets being reshaped by the growth of cloud and AI.
Western Downs Digital Park is a major new hyperscale data centre campus at Kogan in Queensland. Planned across multiple delivery phases, it brings together AI-ready data centres, energy infrastructure and a purpose-built campus environment. This is an opportunity to help shape the technical foundations of a critical new digital infrastructure asset from the ground up.
The role
The Design Manager – Electrical will lead electrical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, translating project requirements into coordinated, compliant and buildable electrical design outcomes. You will act as the electrical subject matter expert through design reviews, technical assurance and delivery-stage resolution.
Working across Zerra DC's multidisciplinary engineering team and external consultants, you will maintain technical standards, manage critical interfaces and help improve electrical performance, resilience, constructability and whole-of-life value.
What you will lead
- Electrical design management and QA/QC assurance across the WDDP programme.
- Design reviews, technical audits and the close-out of discrepancies, missing information and interface risks.
- Coordination with mechanical, high-voltage, controls, energy storage, civil, structural, architectural and life-safety disciplines.
- Electrical input into project gates, design maturity reviews, technical decisions and risk management.
- Engagement with electrical consultants, contractors, suppliers and internal delivery workstreams.
- Evaluation of design, product and vendor improvements that enhance resilience, buildability and whole-of-life cost.
What you will bring
- You will be an experienced electrical engineer or design manager with the technical depth to challenge designs and the practical judgement to drive issues to resolution.
- Experience in data centres, mission-critical facilities or comparable large-scale industrial infrastructure will be important.
- At least 10 years of electrical design or design-management experience.
- Strong capability across power distribution, resilience, redundancy, protection, earthing, standby power and building-services interfaces.
- Working knowledge of relevant Australian codes, standards and grid-connection requirements.
- Strong design-assurance, problem-solving and stakeholder-management capability.
- Commercial awareness of electrical vendors, major cost drivers and the Australian construction market.
- An Electrical Engineering qualification; chartership and professional registration are preferred.
The opportunity
You will join WDDP early enough to shape its electrical design standards and influence decisions that will carry through multiple delivery phases. It is a hands-on client-side role at the centre of a technically complex, high-profile Queensland development.
Design Manager employer: Zerra DC
Zerra DC is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Brisbane that fosters innovation and collaboration within the rapidly evolving data centre industry. Employees benefit from a strong focus on professional development, with opportunities to lead critical projects that shape the future of technology infrastructure. The company’s commitment to quality and sustainability ensures that team members are part of meaningful work that has a lasting impact on communities and markets across Australia and beyond.
