GHD Group

Datacenter Energy Infrastructure Leader - US

GHD Group • $125K — $150K *
Houston, TX 77084In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 7+ years of senior-level experience in power, utilities, and energy infrastructure.
  • Proven success in supporting data centers or mission-critical facilities.
  • Established network with hyperscalers, data center developers, and energy partners.
  • Strong grasp of data center energy requirements and utility engagement strategies.
  • Expertise in energy supply solutions including renewables and energy storage systems.
  • Experience navigating the full project lifecycle for complex energy projects.
  • Exceptional ability to lead technical discussions and align stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior technical and business development lead for energy infrastructure offerings.
  • Drive business development with key industry players including hyperscalers and utilities.
  • Advise clients on power availability and grid interconnection.
  • Translate client needs into integrated energy infrastructure solutions.
  • Lead technical discussions to support project progression from selection to delivery.
  • Maintain continuity as the client-facing technical lead throughout project execution.
  • Provide oversight to multidisciplinary teams on feasibility studies and related services.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days in-office collaboration.
  • Opportunity to work in a high-performing and diverse team environment.
  • Access to a broad array of internal expertise across global regions.
  • Engagement with innovative energy infrastructure projects.
  • Chance to shape the future of data center energy solutions.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Who are we looking for?

We are seeking a Datacenter Energy Infrastructure Leader - US to help grow GHD's data center energy infrastructure offering across the United States, supporting both our Power & Utilities and Technology & Communications sectors. This client-facing role will shape opportunities, advise clients on energy strategy and grid interconnection, connect multidisciplinary expertise across GHD, and maintain continuity from early engagement through delivery.

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities and will see you involved in
  • Serving as the senior technical and business development lead for GHD's data center energy infrastructure offering, helping position an integrated cross-sector value proposition across power, infrastructure, buildings, environment, advisory, and delivery services.
  • Driving business development and work-winning with hyperscalers, data center developers, colocation providers, utilities, ISO/RTO stakeholders, infrastructure investors, IPPs, EPC partners, and energy ecosystem partners.
  • Acting as a trusted advisor to clients on power availability, grid interconnection, utility engagement, transmission and distribution constraints, energy supply strategy, resiliency, phasing, and practical delivery pathways.
  • Translating client needs into integrated energy infrastructure solutions, including utility service strategy, interconnection risk, transmission and distribution impacts, gas-to-power, renewables, fuel cells, BESS, hybrid energy systems, and behind-the-meter options.
  • Leading client-facing technical discussions and supporting early-stage decisions that enable data center projects to move from site selection and feasibility into engineering, construction support, commissioning, and operational handoff.
  • Maintaining continuity from pursuit through delivery as the client-facing technical lead or advisor, ensuring proposal commitments, project scopes, delivery teams, and execution strategies remain aligned.
  • Providing technical direction and oversight to multidisciplinary teams delivering feasibility studies, advisory work, engineering, permitting, project management, cost estimating, commissioning support, and related services; this position is not intended to function as a design manager.
  • Supporting strategic pursuits and proposals through capture planning, technical narratives, proposal development, client presentations, governance reviews, and pursuit conversion activities.
  • Connecting GHD teams across Power & Utilities, Technology & Communications, Property & Buildings, Energy & Resources, Advisory, Environment, Transportation, Water, and regional markets to deliver a unified data center energy solution.
  • Working with GHD SMEs across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas to bring relevant technical expertise, delivery experience, and regional lessons learned to data center energy infrastructure projects in the United States.
  • Identifying market trends, emerging client needs, capability gaps, hiring priorities, scalable delivery approaches, and opportunities to build GHD's market share in data center energy infrastructure.
  • Contributing to pipeline growth, priority pursuits, successful project awards, client satisfaction, and strong market positioning with priority data center and energy infrastructure clients.

What you bring to the team
  • Significant senior-level experience in power, utilities, energy infrastructure, grid interconnection, transmission and distribution, power generation, or large-scale energy projects.
  • Direct experience supporting data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similarly complex infrastructure programs where reliable, scalable energy supply is critical to project success.
  • Recognized credibility with key stakeholders such as hyperscalers, data center developers, colocation providers, utilities, ISO/RTOs, energy infrastructure investors, IPPs, EPC partners, renewable developers, BESS developers, and other industry participants.
  • Strong understanding of data center energy requirements, including power availability, utility coordination, interconnection strategy, transmission and distribution constraints, resiliency, redundancy, staged capacity development, and speed-to-market considerations.
  • Working knowledge of energy supply and infrastructure solutions for data centers, including gas-to-power, renewables, fuel cells, BESS, microgrids, hybrid systems, and behind-the-meter energy solutions.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the full project lifecycle for complex energy infrastructure projects, including planning, site evaluation, feasibility, engineering, permitting, construction support, commissioning, operational readiness, and handoff.
  • Proven ability to lead client-facing technical discussions, clarify decision points, secure alignment, and translate complex technical considerations into practical scopes, delivery plans, and action items.
  • Experience supporting complex business development, strategic pursuits, capture planning, proposal development, client presentations, and opportunity conversion in technically complex infrastructure environments.
  • Ability to guide multidisciplinary teams and SMEs across engineering, planning, advisory, environmental, project delivery, commercial, and risk disciplines while providing senior technical judgment and oversight without being the primary design lead.
  • Strong executive presence, communication skills, commercial awareness, and ability to build trusted relationships across external clients, industry partners, and internal GHD sector leaders.
  • Ability to mobilize regional and global expertise across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas to deliver integrated solutions across the full project lifecycle.
  • Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent is preferred but not required; senior-level technical judgment, market credibility, and client influence are the priority.

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About GHD Group

GHD Group is a global engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm that provides services to clients in the water, energy, environment, property and buildings, and transportation sectors. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. GHD has more than 10,000 employees in over 200 offices worldwide, and it operates in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America. The company's services include engineering design, project management, asset management, environmental consulting, and digital services. GHD's clients include governments, private companies, and non-profit organizations, and its projects range from small-scale local initiatives to large-scale international infrastructure projects.
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