Customer Regional Technical Leader – EU C&SP Solution Center
The RTL Electrical & Cooling Design acts as the design authority and customer technical referent for electrical and cooling solutions across selected strategic accounts of the EU C&SP Solution Center.
The role ensures technical excellence, consistency and standardization of Schneider Electric’s electrical and cooling design solutions from early customer prescription and tender phases through project execution, while complying with SE technical governance, quality, safety and cybersecurity principles.
General
Start date & Availability: The position is open with the start date negotiable by mutual agreement, depending on the candidate’s availability.
Eligibility & Location: We welcome applications from candidates based within the European Union, for example from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Spain or Portugal. This role is open exclusively to candidates holding a valid EU passport. Work permits, permanent residence permits or other forms of authorization are not sufficient for this position.
Travel Requirements: This role involves extensive international travel, up to 75% of the time. Candidates should be comfortable with frequent travel and flexible working arrangements across different locations.
Mission
* Act as the primary technical reference for customers on electrical and cooling design solutions.
* Understand customer technical drivers and translate them into optimized and compliant design architectures.
* Proactively engage in technical prescription activities with customer central teams ahead of RFQs.
* Contribute to tender preparation, providing validated technical concepts, design assumptions and clarifications.
* Lead the design definition of customer‑approved solutions, aiming at standardization and reuse across regions.
* Ensure solutions comply with SE technical governance (CPP, TDP, safety, quality and cybersecurity).
* Develop complete design packages to support consistent deployment and knowledge transfer.
* Capture and promote lessons learned and best practices to continuously improve design efficiency.
* Ensure standardized solutions are correctly applied in all tenders and projects, regardless of geography.
* Act as technical referent for Zone and Country Technical Leaders during tender and execution phases.
Key Activities and Responsibilities Customer Interface & Technical Prescription
* Lead technical exchanges, workshops, and clarifications with customers in a credible and trust‑building manner.
* Clearly explain complex technical concepts, design choices, and trade‑offs to customer stakeholders.
* Demonstrate strong customer‑facing, communication and influencing skills to support technical credibility and customer confidence.
Tender Support & Upstream Alignment
* Actively contribute to tender and pre‑tender phases, ensuring the proposed electrical and cooling designs are technically sound, competitive and executable.
* Define and validate technical architectures, design assumptions and compliance matrices.
* Ensure consistency between tender commitments and executable project design.
Technical Design Authority
* Lead and approve basic and detailed electrical and cooling designs in line with customer requirements and SE standards.
* Ensure coherence, robustness, and compliance of all design deliverables across projects and regions.
Technical Team Coordination
* Coordinate and guide project technical teams, ensuring design activities align with project planning and milestones.
* Identify needs for specific expertise and coordinate involvement of SMEs and specialists.
* Monitor technical scope, engineering effort and key technical cost drivers.
Stakeholder & Supplier Coordination
* Work in close collaboration with PMs, GTLs, Execution TLs, engineers, factories and suppliers.
* Lead and coordinate technical aspects of subcontracted scope in alignment with procurement.
* Act as the single technical interface for internal and external stakeholders on design topics.
Design Scope & Lifecycle Coverage
* Perform and review design and specification activities from pre‑design and tender through L5 commissioning, optimising the use of Schneider Electric’s portfolio.
* Typical scope includes:
o MV/LV systems, transformers, UPS, busways
o E‑house integration and site installation
o Cooling systems and controls
o BMS and monitoring systems
o Support FAT, SAT and prototype validations when required.
Risk, Quality & Continuous Improvement
* Identify technical risks, design deviations and change impacts versus contract or approved baseline.
* Support PMs and Execution TLs in technical assessments of changes and variation orders.
* Ensure compliance with SE processes (CPP, TDP), quality standards and safety and cybersecurity requirements.
* Capture lessons learned and drive standardization and continuous improvement across accounts.
Requirements Education
* Master's degree in Engineering.
Languages
* Fluent English.
* Other languages are a plus.
Experience
* 7 years in leading technical scope of customer projects, or parts of large & international customer projects.
* Technical experience in the datacentre segment is a plus.
* Technical experience in MV, LV, UPSs, Tx, Busbar, EPMS, Cooling Equipment and BMS (Ideally all fields).
Skills
* Ability to lead with agility in a complex & matrix environment.
* Ability to communicate (written, verbal) clearly in a concise and synthetic manner on complex technical strategy.
* Ability to convince stakeholders on the proper project technical strategy.
* Ability to learn from others, share her/his knowledge, coach others and collaborate efficiently.
* Ability to read and understand applicable standards.
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
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