Electrical Engineer-Data Center-Onsite Nashville, TN
Oracle · Nashville, United States · 7h ago
Mid levelOn-siteDevOps, SRE & Infrastructure$146k – $306k
>>This position will be full-time on-site in Nashville, TN. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracle’s relocation policies. Candidates should expect a minimum of 25% travel, with additional travel as business needs require.<<
The Electrical Power Generation Engineer provides technical leadership for the design input, installation, delivery, commissioning, and operational readiness of power-generation systems supporting mission-critical data center operations. The role requires extensive electrical engineering expertise with gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generators, generator paralleling systems, switchgear, protection systems, and associated power-generation equipment.
The engineer works cross-functionally with design, engineering, construction, delivery, commissioning, and operations teams from project initiation through final handover to ensure systems are safe, reliable, maintainable, scalable, and aligned with data center availability
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the electrical power-generation subject-matter expert throughout design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operations support.
- Define electrical system architecture, capacity, redundancy, protection, grounding, controls interfaces, and operational-readiness requirements.
- Lead design and technical reviews for gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generators, alternators, generator step-up transformers, generator breakers, paralleling switchgear, load banks, fuel-system electrical interfaces, and balance-of-plant equipment.
- Develop and validate generator synchronization, load-sharing, paralleling, island-mode, black-start, utility-transfer, and restoration strategies.
- Review electrical one-line diagrams, schematics, cable schedules, protection diagrams, equipment specifications, and vendor submittals.
- Perform or review short-circuit, load-flow, arc-flash, grounding, harmonic, and protective-device coordination studies.
- Coordinate electrical interfaces between generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, automatic transfer switches, utility service, and data center distribution systems.
- Partner with mechanical, I&C, controls, construction, delivery, commissioning, and operations teams to ensure integrated and operable infrastructure.
- Provide technical oversight during construction, including field inspections, quality reviews, installation verification, change management, punch-list resolution, and issue escalation.
- Develop and oversee commissioning plans for generator startup, electrical energization, relay testing, switchgear testing, load-bank testing, integrated systems testing, black-start testing, and utility-transfer testing.
- Lead root-cause analysis for electrical faults, generator trips, protective-relay operations, power-quality events, failed starts, and recurring reliability issues.
- Develop electrical operating procedures, maintenance strategies, emergency-response plans, spare-parts recommendations, and lifecycle replacement plans.
- Ensure complete turnover documentation, including as-built drawings, relay settings, test reports, commissioning records, equipment manuals, training materials, warranty information, and asset records.
- Support operations through periodic testing, outage planning, event analysis, capacity upgrades, equipment replacement, and continuous reliability improvement.
Ensure compliance with applicable electrical safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related field.
- 10years+ of extensive experience with electrical power generation, medium-voltage systems, and mission-critical or industrial electrical infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of gas turbines, reciprocating generators, diesel and natural-gas generation, alternators, generator controls, synchronization, load sharing, and paralleling switchgear.
- Experience with switchgear, transformers, protective relays, power distribution, grounding, and electrical power-system studies.
- Demonstrated experience delivering power infrastructure from design through construction, commissioning, and operational handover.
- Ability to interpret and develop one-line diagrams, electrical schematics, protection diagrams, equipment specifications, and commissioning procedures.
- Strong cross-functional coordination, technical writing, vendor-management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.
Ability to support 24/7 critical operations, maintenance windows, and emergency events.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with hyperscale or enterprise data centers, microgrids, distributed energy resources, or utility-scale generation.
- Familiarity with IEEE, IEC, NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, NEC, NETA, OSHA, and relevant utility/interconnection requirements.
- Experience with SEL, GE, Siemens, ABB/Hitachi Energy, Schneider Electric, Eaton, Caterpillar, Cummins, Wärtsilä, MTU/Rolls-Royce, GE Vernova, or Siemens Energy equipment.
- Professional Engineer license, NETA certification, or equivalent power-systems credential.
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Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.