Principal Engineer Electrical Exentec

Overview

Discover your exciting role. The Principal Engineer Electrical (Power) serves as the highest-level technical authority for all electrical power systems across Exentec’s EMEA TFM portfolio. This role provides advanced engineering leadership supporting mission-critical environments such as semiconductor fabs, high-performance data centers, and advanced manufacturing facilities.

• Serve as Exentec’s subject matter expert (SME) for electrical power systems: MV distribution, LV distribution, UPS, generators, switch gear, transformers, PDUs, RPPs, grounding, and protection.
• Own and maintain corporate engineering standards, design criteria, and best practices for electrical infrastructure.
• Lead failure mode analysis, root cause investigations, and event reconstruction for power-related incidents.
• Evaluate new technologies (digital substations, smart switch gear, arc-flash mitigation, AI-enabled monitoring, etc.) to improve reliability and safety.
• Provide technical sign-off on engineering changes, MOC reviews, new equipment installations, and energization plans.
• Develop and maintain facility- and region-level power reliability strategies, including redundancy planning (N, N+1, 2N, 2N+1) and reliability modeling.
• Conduct electrical risk assessments, arc-flash studies, short-circuit analysis, load flow calculations, and relay coordination studies.
• Lead root-cause investigations for any power disturbances, failures, or near misses.
• Support capacity planning, peak demand forecasting, and power quality improvement initiatives.
• Analyze operational data to reduce nuisance trips, ensure selective coordination, and enhance system resiliency.
• Provide Tier-3 engineering support during electrical events, outages, or abnormal system behavior.
• Support site teams with complex troubleshooting related to protection tripping, generator/UPS transitions, breaker coordination, and SCADA alarms.
• Approve switching plans, LOTO strategies for complex systems, and re-energization procedures.
• Partner with site operations to improve PM programs, testing protocols, and equipment lifecycle strategy.
• Develop training programs, playbooks, and standards for electrical operations, maintenance, and emergency response.
• Coach and mentor engineers, supervisors, and technicians across global TFM operations.
• Lead knowledge-sharing for lessons learned, failure modes, reliability improvements, and new technologies.
• Contribute to internal digital product development (apps, dashboards, monitoring, predictive maintenance tools).
• Interface with client engineering teams to ensure alignment on technical requirements, power reliability goals, and future load planning.
• Provide technical input to proposals, new business pursuits, and pricing for electrical scopes.
• Present complex engineering topics to non-technical stakeholders in a clear, structured manner.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Power focus preferred).
• 12+ years of progressive experience in electrical power systems, with significant work in mission-critical facilities (semiconductor, data center, pharma, advanced manufacturing, or utility power).
• Expert-level knowledge of MV and LV systems, protection schemes, switch gear, UPS, generators, transformers, grounding, harmonics, and power quality.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical investigations and reliability engineering initiatives.
• Proficiency with electrical system analysis software (SKM, ETAP, Easy Power, or equivalent).
• Deep understanding of codes/standards: NFPA 70/70E, IEEE standards, IEC standards, NETA, UL, NEC/NESC.
• Experience reviewing electrical designs, commissioning, and construction submittals.
• Strong communication skills; able to translate complex engineering concepts into clear guidance for operations teams.
• Ability to travel up to 30–40% to support sites in Europe (Primarily Germany/Austria) as needed.
• Professional Engineer (PE) or Chartered Engineer.
• Experience in high-volume semiconductor fab environments or high-density data centers.
• Experience implementing predictive maintenance, IoT sensors, SCADA optimization, or analytics-based reliability programs.
• Develop Auditing program to ensure…