Remote Position
[Remote] Principal Operations Engineer, Electrical
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PTR Global is a provider of information technology and workforce solutions. The Principal Operations Engineer, Electrical will serve as the senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure across a hyperscale AI data-center fleet, leading site assessments, audits, readiness efforts, and commissioning-to-operations handoffs. The role also oversees high-risk electrical procedures, root-cause analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and technical support for field engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technical authority for operational electrical infrastructure
- Lead site assessments, operational audits, and technical-readiness efforts before site activation
- Review designs and specifications from an operational perspective and provide feedback
- Own electrical operational readiness and commissioning-to-operations handoffs for new sites
- Author and approve high-risk electrical MOPs, EOPs, and AOPs
- Lead root-cause analysis for significant electrical events through closure
- Collaborate with operations, design, construction, hardware, and EHS teams
- Act as a technical force multiplier for cluster leads and field engineers
- Travel approximately 50%–75% across the data-center fleet
Skills
- Extensive experience running mission-critical electrical systems, with a background in trades or field operations
- Strong knowledge of switchgear, UPS systems, generators, paralleling, ATS/STS, PDUs, and EPMS in live critical environments
- Proven experience authoring and executing high-risk electrical MOPs
- Experience leading root-cause analysis for significant electrical events through resolution
- Ability to assess operational readiness, audit site posture, and raise technical standards
- Strong technical-readiness and team-development capabilities
- Preferred experience with hyperscale or large colocation environments operating at hundreds of megawatts
- Preferred expertise in NETA, NFPA 70E, EPMS platforms, arc-flash and electrical-safety programs, and Uptime Institute standards
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K contributions
- PTO
- Sick leave
- Other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work
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