Lead Design Engineer

Vertiv is seeking to add a Lead Design Engineer to our high performing team!

Provide technical leadership across major engineering projects, ensuring designs are safe, practical, commercially effective and aligned with project objectives. Working closely with Project Managers, engineers, consultants and stakeholders, the role leads engineering decision-making throughout the project lifecycle, providing technical oversight, identifying and mitigating engineering risks, and ensuring design solutions meet client, regulatory and operational requirements. Act as the senior technical authority for project delivery, supporting multidisciplinary engineering teams through design development, review, validation and implementation.

Who we are: 

Nearly all aspects of our lives involve the use of technology. It’s how we work, play & do anything in between. This connectivity or use of data is built into the very fabric of our society. It’s vital to human progress. 

Vertiv believes there’s a better way to meet this accelerating demand for data — one driven by passion & innovation. 

As industry experts & Architects of Continuity, we collaborate with our customers to envision & build future-ready infrastructures. We leverage our portfolio of hardware, software, analytics, & services, to ensure our customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally & scale with business needs. 

Why Join Vertiv? 

• Meaningful & Fulfilling Work 

• Collaborative Culture 

• Global Career Opportunities 

• Inspiring & Caring Leaders in the industry 

• Recharge Your Potential 

Salary & Perks: 

• Base + Super + Car Allowance 

• Regular training & career progression 

• Specialist tools & company-provided mobile phone 

• Be part of a top-tier team in a world-class company 
  

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Own and develop design strategy across assigned projects.

• Provide technical leadership across a portfolio of concurrent projects.

• Lead design reviews, engineering workshops and technical decision forums.

• Ensure engineering solutions meet client, operational and commercial requirements.

• Act as technical authority for engineering decisions and design philosophies throughout the project lifecycle.

Engineering Governance

• Review engineering deliverables for technical accuracy, completeness and compliance with applicable standards and codes.

• Govern engineering documentation integrity and revision control at key design milestones.

• Ensure design outputs are complete, traceable and suitable for progression through project phases.

• Drive engineering best practice, standardisation and continuous improvement across projects.

• Ensure technical scope, qualifications, testing requirements and design constraints are clearly defined and understood across stakeholders during post-sales delivery.

Technical Risk Management

• Identify technical risks, constraints and opportunities across project development and delivery.

• Lead engineering risk assessments, design reviews and constructability evaluations.

• Develop engineering mitigation strategies for technical and schedule-related risks in collaboration with Project Managers.

• Monitor design progress and proactively escalate technical issues that may impact project milestones.

• Ensure critical path engineering activities are identified and actively managed to support successful design completion.

Design Transition & Handover

• Lead technical handover between Pre-Sales, Post-Sales and Project Delivery teams.

• Ensure all engineering assumptions, exclusions, testing requirements and design constraints are clearly defined and transferred between project phases.

• Maintain continuity of technical understanding across the full project lifecycle.

Project Support & Technical Interface

• Act as primary technical interface between customers, consultants, contractors, internal teams and manufacturing facilities.

• Lead technical workshops, design reviews and engineering discussions throughout project delivery.

• Resolve technical conflicts and provide recommendations that balance customer requirements, commercial drivers and delivery constraints.

• Partner with Project Managers to assess engineering impacts on scope, cost, procurement and delivery decisions.

• Provide technical guidance during procurement, commissioning and execution phases.
   

Employees reporting to Incumbent

• Nil

Main contacts within Company    

• PSA Application Engineers

• Product Managers

• Sales Engineers/Account Managers

• Project Managers

• Procurement

• Service Teams

Main contacts outside the Company    

• Vertiv customers and clients

• Third party suppliers of products and services

• Project Management team members

Qualification:    

• Degree qualified in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

• 10+ years engineering experience leading complex designs 

• Demonstrated experience in mission-critical power and/or thermal infrastructure, including design, installation, commissioning, testing and integration of systems 

• Working knowledge of Australian and relevant international standards and compliance frameworks  

• Experience acting as a technical lead or design authority on complex multidisciplinary engineering projects.

• Proven ability to make and defend engineering decisions under commercial, programme and delivery constraints.

• Experience in design governance, technical reviews and resolution of complex engineering issues through to commissioning and delivery.

• Chartered Engineer status or working toward chartership (or equivalent professional recognition).

• Interpersonal skills

• Leadership skills

• Communication skills

• Attention to detail