Manager, Electrical OFCI Procurement Engineering - Data Center Supply Chain
SB EnergyBasic Function
SB Energy is seeking a Manager with deep industry and OEM experience to lead the electrical procurement engineering for owner-furnished, contractor-installed (OFCI) power equipment supporting AI data centers. You will own the electrical product roadmap, procurement technical requirements, and equipment acceptance decisions downstream of the high-voltage substation.
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y with SB Energy's clients, OEMs, and vendors, you will deliver highly reliable solutions at the best total cost of ownership (TCO). From day one, you will make independent decisions under ambiguity, advance innovation and equipment fungibility, and enable multi-sourcing. You will build a team with the capacity and domain expertise needed to deliver the full electrical equipment scope.
Responsibilities
Equipment coverage includes but is not limited to the categories below.
Power equipment
• Distribution: MV/LV switchgear, ring main units, switchboards, panelboards, standalone motor-control centers/drives and, power, distribution, and isolation transformers.
• Backup and stored power: generators and integral fuel, starting, and exhaust auxiliaries; paralleling gear; MV/LV UPS; batteries/BESS; chargers and DC power systems.
• Transfer and final distribution: ATS/STS, busway/busduct, power distribution units, remote power panels, rack PDUs, and power cables and terminations.
• Packaged power: electrical skids, e-houses, modular power blocks, and packaged substations downstream of the HV substation.
• Protection and monitoring: relays, metering, electrical power management systems, control panels, power-quality equipment, surge protection, grounding assemblies, and load banks.
Role accountabilities
• Personally lead electrical technical decisions from day one. Prioritize deliverables and specialist support, identify capability gaps.
• Once staffed, coach, develop, and manage direct reports to establish LLE ownership across distribution, backup/stored power, and other power packages.
• Own electrical equipment specifications, Basis of Design (BOD), product configurations, and interfaces. Translate client requirements and Engineering/EOR design intent into procurement requirements. Own facility-side power and protection interfaces to cooling equipment.
• Own the electrical product roadmap: performance requirements, technology evaluation, pilots, standard product families, refresh cycles, and obsolescence. Agree priorities with clients and vendors, and recommend adoption based on reliability, manufacturability, and TCO.
• Own electrical fungibility criteria and technical equivalence decisions across OEMs, equipment generations, and projects. Validate ratings, footprints, connections, protection, controls, and service requirements. Record limits on interchangeability and required adaptations.
• Enable multi-sourcing by developing vendor-neutral requirements and technically approving alternate electrical products. Supply product assessments to Supplier Engineering, which owns OEM/factory qualifications. Category Procurement owns sourcing awards, negotiations, and contracts.
• Lead electrical proposals, drawings, calculations, and compliance reviews with clients and vendors. Evaluate redundancy, fault ratings, protection, maintainability, and integration. Make product acceptance and deviation decisions within delegated authority, escalating material residual risk.
• Own electrical equipment TCO comparisons covering acquisition, installation, losses, maintenance, spares, service, replacement, and downtime exposure. Use client operating needs and vendor evidence to recommend the most reliable, cost-effective solution.
• Define equipment-specific Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) criteria. Evaluate results and own electrical technical acceptance under the common framework maintained by Supplier Engineering.
• Own electrical impact assessments for client/design changes and technica