[Hiring] Director, Engineering Standards & Safety @NTT Global Data Centers

Role Description

The Director, Engineering Standards and Safety is a global role that leads the global function that defines how engineering work is performed safely and consistently across data center operations. The role owns engineering standards, technical methods, operating boundaries, asset-acceptance criteria, and the governance of technical deviations and risk acceptances. This director leads a multidisciplinary team covering electrical, mechanical, controls, fire and life safety, and related engineering disciplines.

The discipline standards engineers carry the primary research, evidence development, consultation, and drafting workload. The Director sets priorities, challenges the evidence, and retains final approval and governance authority. The function works with Field Engineering, Operations, Design, Construction, Commissioning, vendors, and corporate safety teams to convert technical risk and operating experience into practical global requirements.

Clear standards and safety controls help operating teams run critical facilities safely and efficiently, maintain reliable infrastructure, reduce avoidable environmental impact, and provide consistent technical support to clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, controls, fire-protection or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent relevant education and experience where company policy permits.
• At least 12 years of progressive engineering experience in mission-critical facilities, industrial infrastructure, utilities or a comparable high-availability environment.
• At least 5 years of experience leading engineering teams, technical authorities or enterprise standards programs.
• Demonstrated experience developing or governing engineering standards, technical methods, safety requirements or formal risk-acceptance processes.
• Experience working with data center or other mission-critical electrical, cooling and controls infrastructure.
• Experience operating across multiple regions or business units and influencing senior technical and operational stakeholders.

Requirements

• Set the global strategy, priorities and operating model for Engineering Standards & Safety.
• Set the standards-development portfolio and research priorities, assign accountable discipline engineers and ensure work is proportionate to risk and business need.
• Review and approve engineering standards, technical methods and analytical models developed through documented research and cross-functional consultation.
• Ensure discipline engineers engage Field Engineering, site Operations, vendors and other experts, reconcile material input and maintain a traceable technical basis for each recommendation.
• Define technical operating limits, system boundaries and escalation requirements for electrical, mechanical, controls, fire and life-safety systems.
• Establish engineering acceptance criteria for assets and systems entering operation, in partnership with Design, Construction, Commissioning and Operations.
• Define validation frameworks for reliability analysis, energy analysis, technical-capacity analysis and control-strategy design.
• Own the governance process for technical deviations and engineering risk acceptances, including approval authorities, evidence requirements, review periods and escalation thresholds.
• Define engineering safety requirements for energized work, arc-flash risk, breaker coordination and other high-risk engineering activities.
• Establish global control-system and alarm philosophy, including control-sequence principles, setpoint governance, alarm requirements, point naming, tagging and metadata standards.
• Establish fire and life-safety engineering requirements and assurance methods in partnership with corporate safety, regional teams and authorities having jurisdiction.
• Monitor adoption of standards, identify systemic compliance gaps and sponsor corrective actions without assuming regional execution ownership.
• Ensure standards reflect operating experience, incident learning, regulatory requirements, recognized industry practices and changes in technology.
• Chair or sponsor governance forums that resolve cross-region technical questions, approve material exceptions and assign clear decision ownership.
• Build and lead a high-performing global team through workforce planning, hiring, coaching, performance management and succession planning.
• Communicate engineering requirements, material risks and decisions to senior leaders in clear technical and business terms.
• Manage the function's priorities, resources, external technical support and budget in line with approved business plans.

Benefits

• Base salary for this position is: $180,400 to $257,700.
• All regular full-time employees are eligible for an annual bonus; payout is dependent upon individual and company performance.
• Employees receive paid time-off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, life and supplemental insurance, short-term and long-term disability, flexible spending account, and 401k retirement plan to create a rich Total Rewards package.

Company Description

As the third largest data center provider, we operate over 150 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions. We understand that every business – large and small – has its own unique needs and goals. We offer local-to-global data center expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centers to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime.

NTT Global Data Centers is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment.