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Principal Electrical EngineerJob Summary
Iron Mountain Data Centers is seeking an accomplished Principal Electrical Engineer to serve as the global technical authority for utility, high-, medium-, and low-voltage distribution, standby generation, UPS, energy storage, earthing, and power-quality systems. In this role, you will operate as an enterprise specialist and strategic technical leader across new developments, customer deployments, and the existing operational portfolio. You will establish technical direction, govern global standards and specifications, assure high-risk engineering decisions, and resolve complex issues that span beyond individual projects.
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)In this role, you will:
- Set Global Technical Direction: Establish design principles, performance outcomes, and decision criteria for utility interconnects, HV/MV/LV distribution, UPS, battery energy storage, earthing, and standby generation across the global platform.
- Govern Global Standards & Frameworks: Own and govern Basis of Design (BOD) requirements, global standard designs, technical specifications, and discipline assurance frameworks; serve as the final authority on precedent-setting deviations and risks.
- Advise Executive Leadership: Partner with VPs, SVPs, and cross-functional leadership on technical strategy, investment trade-offs, capacity constraints, operational risks, and long-term infrastructure technology roadmaps.
- Direct Equipment Strategy & Incident Investigations: Govern technical requirements and product strategy for owner-furnished equipment (OFCI) alongside Supply Chain, while providing top-tier technical leadership for major operational incidents to embed root-cause findings into global standards.
- Build Discipline Capability: Represent the company in strategic customer and industry forums, sponsor a global electrical community of practice, and mentor Senior Engineers and technical practitioners without direct line-management responsibility.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Core Experience: Typically 15+ years of relevant experience, including multi-project and multi-market technical leadership across major data center or mission-critical capital programs.
- Enterprise Technical Mastery: Industry-recognized expertise across utility strategy, high/medium/low voltage systems, protective relaying, energy storage, and power quality.
- Governance & Commercial Judgement: Proven ability to govern global approval frameworks and manage systemic risk while balancing electrical resilience, CapEx/OpEx, speed to market, and utility constraints.
- Executive Presence & Influence: Exceptional communication, influencing, and negotiation skills to frame complex engineering decisions for executive leadership, customers, regulatory authorities, and Tier 1 manufacturers.
- Education & Travel: University degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Building Services Engineering, or related technical discipline (Professional Engineer/Chartered Engineer license strongly preferred) and the ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.
- Compensation: Competitive salary and executive total rewards packages aligned with your experience level.
- Work-Life Balance: Generous paid time off, holiday schedules, and flexible work options to support personal well-being.
- Health & Well-being: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, wellness, and retirement plans.
- Growth: Continuous learning, technical leadership opportunities, and global career advancement within Iron Mountain.
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Category: Real Estate & FacilitiesSkills Required
- 15+ years of relevant experience, including multi-project and multi-market technical leadership across major data center or mission-critical capital programs
- Industry-recognized expertise in utility strategy, high-, medium-, and low-voltage systems, protective relaying, energy storage, and power quality
- Experience governing global approval frameworks and managing systemic risk while balancing resilience, CapEx/OpEx, speed to market, and utility constraints
- Exceptional communication, influencing, and negotiation skills with executives, customers, regulatory authorities, and manufacturers
- University degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Building Services Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Professional Engineer or Chartered Engineer license
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%
Iron Mountain Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Inclusive, modern offerings are emphasized, including support for mental health, gender‑affirming care (with travel/lodging where needed), and family‑planning benefits. Recognition for disability inclusion is also highlighted, which aligns with accessible benefits and leave support.
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Retirement Support — A formal 401(k) program is described with automatic enrollment and a clear employer match structure, with immediate vesting referenced in the materials. Access to supporting infrastructure and guidance is noted through dedicated benefits portals and administrators.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple national medical plan options are outlined, along with care navigation, virtual primary care, and pharmacy coverage. Additional wellbeing support is described via EAP services and structured wellbeing programming.
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What We Do
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 220,000 organizations around the world, Iron Mountain boasts a real estate network of more than 80 million square feet across more than 1,350 facilities in 45 countries dedicated to protecting and preserving what matters most for its customers. Iron Mountain’s solutions portfolio includes records management, data management, document management, data centers, art storage and logistics, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including critical business documents, electronic information, medical data and cultural and historical artifacts.
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