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    Utilities Director - london, United Kingdom - QTS Data Centers

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    The Director, Utility Development, Europe will be responsible for all aspects of utility engagement, power acquisition, utility development, and power delivery across Europe. This leader will ultimately own: evaluating power availability in new & existing markets; leading site power due diligence; ensuring utility capacity is evaluated and secured at each campus to support data centers; negotiating power contracts; delivering transmission and substation infrastructure; and leading technical utility infrastructure engineering oversight. This role will interface and collaborate with many critical stakeholders, including but not limited to: pre-development teams leading overall due diligence and entitlements; energy leaders driving power contracts and negotiations; operations leaders managing load growth projections; sales teams coordinating customer demands; and development team project leaders planning and building new data centers.

    Responsibilities - other duties may be assigned:

    • Build and lead a team responsible for: utility engagement (including power site due diligence), utility delivery, utility infrastructure procurement, utility engineering oversight, and HV O&M
    • Lead strategic engagement with power utilities across Europe
    • Manage power due diligence for prospective sites
    • Lead technical engagement for all utility projects across the European portfolio
    • Execute power contracts for new and expansion capacity, alongside the Energy Team
    • Oversee all private substation deployments across Europe
    • Lead all aspects of high-voltage projects, including scope, schedule, & budget
    • Build and expand relationships with key high- & medium-voltage OEM vendors
    • Lead procurement of HV & MV infrastructure assets in Europe
    • Track and report on power contract status for all North American sites
    • Manage and oversee programmatic operations & maintenance of HV + MV infrastructure standards and contracts for all European sites
    • Support the Energy Team as required in their leadership and pursuit of energy procurement, PPAs, and sustainability goals
    • Collaborate with Blackstone leadership, Senior QTS Leadership, Pre-Development, Energy, Development, Legal, and Sales to evaluate, secure, and deliver required power capacity

    Essential Qualifications:

    • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, construction management, energy management, or equivalent professional experience
    • Ten or more years of site, utility, and/or energy projects, along with utility contract negotiations
    • Three or more years of people leader experience
    • Able to travel up to 50% of the time or as needed to support relationship building and projects
    • Demonstrated experience working directly with executives and collaborating effectively across all levels of the organization

    Desired Qualifications:

    • Ten or more years developing and fostering utility industry relationships
    • Experience leading due diligence on prospective large-scale power opportunities
    • Solid understanding of the power study and contracting process at various utilities
    • Relationships with key HV Utility OEMs / Consultants / Partners in Europe
    • Understanding of energy markets and large-load transmission planning
    • Experience managing large portfolio of work

    Additional Skills:

    • Fluency in English required; fluency in other European languages strongly preferred
    • Strong verbal and written communication skills
    • Strong negotiating skills
    • Ability to build relationships and influence cross-discipline teams
    • Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations at a high growth company
    • Ability to prioritize, multitask, and deliver high quality work in tight timeframes

    QTS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.



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