Careers

The Technology Department

The Technology team at hscale builds the systems, standards, and frameworks behind our hyperscale data centre platform across EMEA. We cover Design, Engineering, Commissioning, Procurement, IT & Cybersecurity, Sustainability, Compliance, and Governance.

We link innovation with delivery: setting design, procurement, and commissioning standards to accelerate new builds, while running secure, resilient IT and compliance environments. With a customer-first, commercially smart approach and strong vendor partnerships, we scale fast and build for the future.

Position Overview

The Principal Design Manager will lead a design management role across hscale’s EMEA data centre development programme, ensuring designs meet our standards, commercial goals, and delivery model from concept through close-out.

Based in Design & Engineering, the role is the key interface between the Engineering Centre of Excellence, external designers, Development, Procurement, and Construction. It governs design processes and consultant performance across multiple projects and disciplines, managing risk early and ensuring fully coordinated, compliant, buildable solutions.

Your Role

• Define and govern scalable design standards, processes, and outcomes aligned with hscale’s technical, commercial, and sustainability goals
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design partners to deliver fully integrated, buildable designs on time and in line with project schedules
• Own the Basis of Design (BOD) and key design deliverables, ensuring consistency across projects and phases
• Drive early design decisions to lock in resilience, operability, and cost certainty before procurement and construction
• Set and manage clear consultant performance expectations (quality, speed, coordination) across the EMEA partner network
• Act as the central design interface across Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, Sales Engineering, and Operations to ensure end-to-end alignment
• Ensure compliant, high-quality designs by managing risk early, maintaining robust documentation, and driving cost and lifecycle optimisation
• Support site due diligence and delivery through targeted site engagement

Your Profile

• 8 to 12 years of experience in design management, MEP engineering, architecture, or mission critical project delivery, ideally within data centres or high tech infrastructure
• Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary design teams and deliver complex technical projects from concept through construction
• Strong understanding of critical MEP systems, power and cooling infrastructure, building codes, controls, and mission critical design principles
• Experience working across EMEA markets with familiarity in regional permitting, regulatory frameworks, utilities, and design standards
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex design issues to senior stakeholders
• Proactive and solution oriented with strong risk identification and problem solving skills
• Comfortable working in a rapidly growing and evolving organisation and contributing to scalable design processes and governance
• Willingness to travel up to 25 % across the EMEA region

The Development Department

The Development team plays a crucial role in the success of the hscale product, ensuring the successful establishment, powering, reporting and monitoring, procurement, construction and commissioning of data center campuses, through to seamless handover to operations. The Site Acquisition team delivers the strategy outlined by the Site Selection team, fundamentally to secure, exchange and manage all activities relating to the land through to closing on land, in our target markets, in line with the leadership’s strategy, i.e. deliver business plan.

Position Overview

With two active campuses and further European expansion planned, hscale is hiring a motivated, analytical Site Acquisition Manager to help grow our EMEA data centre portfolio. Reporting to the Head of Site Acquisition, the role supports the full acquisition process, from site evaluation and multi-disciplinary due diligence to transaction execution, working closely with internal teams and external advisors. The ideal candidate can manage multiple workstreams and produce high-quality analysis and materials for senior leadership.

Your Role

• Support the Head of Site Acquisition across all phases of land acquisition and site selection in Europe
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary due diligence (technical, legal, environmental, financial, tax) and ensure risks/mitigations are captured
• Maintain pipeline tracking and status reporting (milestones, costs, schedule, risks, market intelligence)
• Prepare and review underwriting materials and documentation for Investment Committee, C-Suite, and board audiences (business cases, models, summaries, decks)
• Manage external advisors (brokers, consultants, legal/tax) and support negotiations and transaction execution
• Ensure governance and compliance, support handover into development/construction, and continuously improve standards, templates, and workflows

Your Profile

• 2–4 years of experience in land acquisition, real estate development, or infrastructure projects, ideally in data centers, energy, or industrial sectors
• Proven track record supporting land transactions and due diligence (technical, financial, tax), with strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Excellent written and visual communication skills, including preparation of executive-level presentations and reports for C-Suite audiences
• Strong interpersonal and coordination skills, able to manage multiple projects in an international, fast-changing environment; self-motivated and well organised
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Familiarity with large-scale infrastructure or real estate development are a plus

The Development Department

The Development team plays a crucial role in the success of the hscale product, ensuring the successful establishment, powering, reporting and monitoring, procurement, construction and commissioning of data centre campuses, through to seamless handover to operations. The power team ensures that data centres have a reliable and scalable power supply, coordinating with utility providers and integrating renewable energy sources where possible. They design and implement power distribution systems that meet the high demands of data centre operations, all the while considering how to “commercialise” hscale’s power infrastructure.

Position Overview

hscale is seeking a technically minded, detail-oriented Head of Power (Utility Power Delivery) to lead energisation across new and existing data centre campuses. As the New Site Development owner for power and energy, this role manages the end-to-end utility connection process – from early due diligence and securing preliminary supply through to negotiating, executing, designing, and delivering formal connection agreements – ensuring alignment with design and operational needs. The role also defines and implements hscale’s power and energy strategy in collaboration with our investors. Strong cross-functional coordination with Corporate Development, Site Acquisition, Construction, Operations, and the C-Suite is essential, alongside support throughout the sales cycle, including customer engagement.

Your Role

• Define and deliver hscale’s power/energy strategy, aligning growth, ESG, and customer requirements (incl. renewables, PPAs, onsite generation)
• Assess power availability, grid constraints, and energy options to support site selection and early due diligence
• Lead utility and regulatory engagement (TSOs/DSOs), securing capacity, quotes, programmes, and favourable commercial terms
• Own the end-to-end utility connection pathway—from feasibility to executed connection agreements—coordinating closely with Design/Engineering and delivery teams
• Oversee large-scale energisation programmes (c. 300 MW–1 GW), managing scope, schedule, budgets, and supply-chain/partner relationships
• Drive resilience and risk management (redundancy strategies) to meet hyperscale requirements
• Track legislation and policy changes, ensuring compliance with regional regulations, safety standards, and corporate governance
• Provide leadership, continuous improvement (processes/lessons learned), and technical support to Construction, Operations, Sales/Marketing (RFPs, customer materials, handovers, post-build support)

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Energy Systems, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in large-scale power/energy infrastructure
• Strong grid and utility expertise (operations, transmission planning, distributed generation) plus renewables, storage, and emerging tech (e.g., SMRs)
• Proven experience negotiating PPAs and delivering complex, multi-jurisdiction energy projects
• Solid project management and feasibility-study capability, including benchmarking and data/statistical analysis
• Strong commercial and regulatory awareness (customer requirements, business drivers, financials, legislation)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to lead internal/external teams collaboratively
• Highly adaptable and self-directed, comfortable working remotely, travelling, and across time zones

The Operations Department

The Operations Department is responsible for the overall health and performance of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and data centre modules across our facilities. Our team operates 24×7 with Critical Facility Engineers on each shift, serving as the primary interface with customers and the first line of defense for maintaining uptime and performance standards.

Position Overview

The Facility Manager ensures 24/7 reliability of critical data centre infrastructure (power, mechanical, safety, and building management systems). The role leads a 24×7 team of engineering technicians, driving routine and preventive maintenance to maximize uptime and reduce risk, and establishes operational procedures and safety standards.

Key responsibilities include incident response (rapid troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and recovery), project management for infrastructure upgrades, and vendor oversight to ensure performance, compliance, and service quality. The Facility Manager also manages budgets, resource allocation, and capacity planning, implements disaster preparedness and business continuity measures. The role delivers timely reporting on operational metrics, maintenance, and incidents and works closely with internal stakeholders to keep facilities aligned with business needs.

Your Role

• Oversee electrical/mechanical systems (UPS, generators, cooling, fire suppression, BMS) to maintain 99.999%+ uptime
• Lead multi-shift technician teams; coach, manage performance, and drive operational excellence
• Deliver PM programs, resource allocation, and capacity planning to reduce risk and downtime
• Act as primary escalation/on-call lead; coordinate investigation, mitigation, and recovery
• Manage facility upgrades end-to-end (scope, budget, timeline, cross-functional execution)
• Manage contractors/service providers; ensure KPI/SLA adherence and quality standards
• Control OPEX, optimize costs, ensure regulatory compliance, documentation, and audit readiness

Your Profile

• Minimum 5 years of data centre operations or mission-critical facility anagement experience, including leading 24×7 technical teams
• In-depth knowledge of power and mechanical systems, UPS, generators, switchgear, chillers, cooling towers, CRAC units, building automation, and life-safety equipment
• Proven project management and vendor coordination skills, with experience overseeing maintenance schedules and budget control
• Expert troubleshooting and root-cause analysis abilities for electrical and mechanical system failures
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating with senior leadership, vendors, service partners, and cross-functional teams
• Competence in documenting, monitoring, and reporting maintenance activities, incidents, and compliance for audit readiness
• Physical capability to work in data centre environments, perform group lifts, and respond on-call as needed

The Operations Department

The Operations Department is responsible for the overall health and performance of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and data centre modules across our facilities. Our team operates 24×7 with Critical Facility Engineers on each shift, serving as the primary interface with customers and the first line of defense for maintaining uptime and performance standards.

Position Overview

The Site Manager is responsible for end-to-end data centre operations (facility management, maintenance, security, and compliance) to ensure mission-critical reliability and maximum uptime. The role acts as the local single point of contact for all facility matters, with strong expertise in MEP systems and building technologies. The Site Manager ensures a safe environment for staff, contractors, and customers by enforcing HSE requirements and maintaining audit readiness.

The Site Manager develops and continuously improves operational policies, procedures, and workflows (work orders, training, incident/break-fix response, events, and customer communications). The role leads technical teams and subcontractors through recruitment, performance management, and development, delivering projects on time and within budget. The Site Manager partners with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Reliability Engineering and Construction) to optimize performance, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence, while tracking key metrics (uptime, efficiency, capacity), driving cost/risk reduction initiatives, and managing vendors and budgets.

Your Role

• Maintain operational integrity of critical infrastructure (power, cooling, fire suppression, network connectivity)
• Run day-to-day data centre campus operations to ensure efficient, reliable performance
• Ensure high customer satisfaction and rapid resolution of service issues
• Lead incident response and escalation; drive post-incident investigations and root cause analysis
• Supervise site staff and contractors (scheduling, task allocation, performance oversight)
• Ensure full compliance with HSE, security, and environmental regulations across facilities
• Manage budgets and cost control, including forecasting to meet financial targets
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and vendors across multiple locations; report performance, risks, and improvements to senior leadership

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction, or a related technical field
• 8–10 years’ experience in mission-critical data centre or large facility management
• Strong knowledge of local/national safety, regulatory, and environmental requirements
• Hands-on expertise with data centre electrical and mechanical systems
• Proven ability to manage daily campus operations, including staff leadership and contractor oversight
• Skilled in capacity planning, preventive maintenance, and local resource management
• Experienced in incident response, escalation, post-incident investigation, and reporting
• Strong customer service, budgeting/financial control, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills

The Operations Department

The Operations Department is responsible for the overall health and performance of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and data centre modules across our facilities. Our team operates 24×7 with Critical Facility Engineers on each shift, serving as the primary interface with customers and the first line of defense for maintaining uptime and performance standards.

Position Overview

The Operations Transition Manager leads operational readiness for data centre projects, serving as the voice of Operations throughout design, construction, and commissioning phases. Working collaboratively with regional development teams, this role ensures each facility achieves the highest standards in safety, operability, maintainability, and efficiency while maintaining alignment with agreed scope, schedule, and budget parameters. Leveraging deep expertise in critical data centre electrical and mechanical infrastructure, commissioning methodologies, and construction delivery practices, the Operations Transition Manager provides essential operational perspective that constructively shapes design and delivery decisions. The role encompasses site mobilization and transition management across EMEA, driving measurable outcomes in health and safety, security, uptime, performance, and customer satisfaction. Success is built on continuous improvement initiatives, technology innovation adoption, and collaborative leadership practices that build operational excellence across the organization.

Your Role

• Lead end-to-end transition of new facilities into operations, ensuring full operational readiness and zero-downtime handover
• Promote a zero-accident safety culture and drive operational excellence through strong, hands-on leadership
• Ensure all permits, certifications, and compliance requirements are met for successful site operation
• Coordinate Design & Build, Operations, and stakeholders to enable smooth site delivery and effective feedback loops
• Own ready-for-service handover, ensuring zero defects and reporting KPIs and performance to senior management
• Perform post-implementation reviews and root cause analysis, capturing and sharing lessons learned
• Manage Pre-Operations budgets and financial tracking
• Influence site design and processes to improve standardization, scalability, productivity, and operational capability

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction, or a related technical field
• 8–10 years of experience in mission-critical data centre or large facility management
• Strong knowledge of local/national safety, regulatory, and environmental requirements
• Deep expertise in data centre infrastructure (power, cooling, networking, security)
• Proven experience assessing project completion and readiness/acceptance criteria
• Experience working with hyperscale customers and building strong client relationships
• Strong project management skills leading large, complex technology projects
• Track record of driving operational excellence via process improvement and innovation
• Excellent communication with on-site teams, vendors, and regional stakeholders
• Willingness to travel up to 50% (primarily EMEA; occasional international)

The Operations Department

The Operations Department is responsible for the overall health and performance of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and data centre modules across our facilities. Our team operates 24×7 with Critical Facility Engineers on each shift, serving as the primary interface with customers and the first line of defense for maintaining uptime and performance standards.

Position Overview

The Principal Engineer leads technical excellence for critical facilities across EMEA, acting as the Operations voice for standards and performance. Reporting to the Head of Operations, the role partners with Site Directors, facility engineers, and cross-functional teams to ensure safe, reliable, efficient data centre operations. It sets regional standards, lifecycle and investment priorities, and governs preventive maintenance, facility acceptance, incident management, and RCA to sustain 99.999% uptime. The role drives continuous improvement through lessons learned, technology, and automation, and mentors local engineers to resolve complex failures and execute in live environments.

Your Role

• Act as the EMEA technical authority for Critical Facilities Operations, ensuring safe, reliable multi-site performance and 99.999% uptime
• Define and govern regional operations standards, policies, and “definition of done”
• Provide technical leadership across electrical and mechanical infrastructure (HV/MV/LV power, cooling, controls, monitoring, fire/leak detection)
• Serve as senior escalation for complex failures, redundancy degradations, and high-risk operational decisions (incl. out-of-hours support)
• Own preventive maintenance strategy and planning (PMs, statutory checks, lifecycle tasks, critical spares)
• Drive disciplined maintenance execution and data-led reliability improvement (asset accuracy, work control, audit readiness)
• Enforce robust change and risk management (MOP/SOP/EOP readiness, risk assessments, windows, contingency/rollback)
• Lead incident response, RCA, commissioning/acceptance for new builds/retrofits, vendor performance, and weekly/monthly KPI reporting (availability, PM quality, recurrence, cost)

Your Profile

• Degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent technical depth)
• 10+ years leading mission-critical operations with 24/7 uptime accountability (e.g., hyperscale DCs, healthcare, aviation, high-tech manufacturing)
• Senior engineering leadership owning electrical/mechanical infrastructure, incident response, and operational risk in live environments
• Proven delivery of large, cross-functional programs improving availability, safety, and lifecycle cost across multiple sites/regions
• Deep expertise in critical power, cooling, controls/automation, and life-safety systems
• Strong incident command, escalation, and RCA leadership with executive-level communication and corrective-action ownership
• Experienced influencing distributed teams and strategic vendors to drive consistent regional standards and disciplined execution
• Working knowledge of commissioning/IST/handover and BMS/EPMS analytics
• Willingness to travel up to 25%

The Office of the CEO

The Office of the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) is key for the overall strategic direction, management, and success of the company. The department will work closely with the Bain executive team and the HSCALE Leadership and Management teams to develop and implement business strategies, drive growth, and ensure the company’s long-term sustainability. Comprising specialists in operations, corporate development, investment procurement and quality & compliance, the team ensures seamless collaboration within the other functions within the business to identify market opportunities, drive strategic growth, and maintain investor and certification standards.

Position Overview

The Senior EHS Manager leads health, safety, and environmental (EHS) programs across EMEA data centres, safeguarding people, the environment, and business continuity across construction (new builds, expansions, fit-outs) and 24/7 operations. The role drives risk assessments and controls for data centre hazards (electrical, mechanical, thermal, chemicals, emergency response, waste and emissions) and ensures compliance with ISO standards and EMEA regulations. It oversees contractor HSE performance, approves safety plans/method statements, conducts inspections, investigates incidents, and ensures safe handover to operations. In live sites, the role partners with Operations and Security to embed safe working practices through training, PPE, audits, drills, KPI monitoring, and corrective actions, while shaping regional EHS strategy.

Your Role

• Implement and continuously improve EHS standards, policies, procedures, and safety management systems across operational data centres and construction sites
• Ensure compliance with local, national, and international EHS regulations and corporate programs, meeting or exceeding legal requirements
• Lead risk assessments and high-risk activity planning, applying the hierarchy of controls and verifying effectiveness on site
• Deliver EHS and life-safety audits/assessments, track findings, and ensure timely close-out of corrective and preventive actions
• Manage contractor safety end-to-end (pre-qualification, induction, supervision, compliance monitoring, performance management), including commissioning/energisation activities
• Review and approve RAMS, lift plans, temporary works interfaces, and controls for high-risk works (e.g., cranes/rigging, excavations, MEWPs, trenching/shoring)
• Permit-to-Work processes (hot work, electrical, work at height, confined space, lifting, excavation) and conduct inspections, toolbox talks, and safe site logistics/segregation
• Drive operational hazard controls, industrial hygiene and chemical safety, environmental compliance (waste, spills, emissions/noise), emergency preparedness/drills, training/PPE programs, and EHS reporting/trend analysis in partnership with local teams and stakeholders

Your Profile

• 5+ years of progressive EHS/HSE experience managing a broad risk portfolio across multiple sites
• 10+ years’ exposure to high-risk environments (data centres/critical facilities, industrial construction, energy/utilities); combined construction + operations preferred
• Experience supporting hyperscale/large-scale data centre projects and/or live mission-critical (Tier/high-availability) operations
• Proven capability across commissioning, integrated systems testing, handover, and construction-to-operations transition under strict change control
• Strong customer-facing skills, including presenting/defending reports and managing customer-specific EHS requirements
• Confident working with senior executives; effective meeting leadership and relationship building
• Working knowledge of EU-OSHA and relevant safety standards; able to implement safe systems of work (PTW, LOTO/isolation, contractor governance, inspections/audits)
• Strong incident investigation and RCA skills, environmental compliance experience (waste, spills, chemicals, emissions/air quality), and data-driven performance management
• Willingness to travel up to 25% across EMEA

Please send your application via email to recruitment@hscaledc.com.

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