Electrician Technician

About The Role

As a Datacentre Electrical Technician at Nscale, you will be a vital member of our infrastructure operations team, responsible for ensuring the maximum uptime, reliability, and efficiency of our heavy electrical systems. In this role, you will oversee the hands-on maintenance, troubleshooting, and scaling of low-to-high voltage power distribution systems that fuel our cutting-edge AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data centers. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of heavy electrical engineering and next-generation tech deployment in Europe's fastest-growing digital infrastructure markets.

What You'll Be Doing

Your core responsibilities will be centered around maintaining absolute operational excellence and physical plant reliability:

• Operate and maintain HV/LV switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, generators, ATS/STS equipment, busway systems, PDUs, battery systems and associated monitoring equipment.

• Perform planned preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance.

• Respond to alarms using DCIM, EPMS and BMS systems.

• Execute approved SOPs, MOPs and EOPs.

• Support commissioning, energisation and Integrated Systems Testing.

• Perform inspections, thermal imaging and condition monitoring.

• Work under PTW, LOTO and RAMS procedures.

• Maintain maintenance records, switching logs and asset documentation.

• Supervise specialist contractors.

• Promote safety, reliability and continuous improvement.

• Escalate complex issues and collaborate closely with external high-voltage specialists, contractors, and utility partners during major maintenance windows.

Health, Safety and Compliance

• Ensure that all work and processes follow Local and Global Health and Safety performance criteria

• Comply with NEK 400, FSE, DSB requirements and site Electrical Safety Rules.

• Follow PTW, LOTO and isolation procedures.

• Report hazards and incidents.

• Support ISO 27001 and ISO 45001 compliance.

About You

We are looking for a safety-first, technically sound expert who thrives in fast-paced operational environments.

Requirements & Technical Skills:

Essential:

• Recognized electrical apprenticeship or equivalent.

• Experience in industrial or critical environments.

• Knowledge of transformers, switchgear, UPS and generators.

• Ability to interpret single line diagrams.

• Strong electrical fault-finding skills

Desirable:

• Data centre experience.

• Change Control management processes

• HV Authorised Person or willingness to train.

• Experience with DCIM/BMS/EPMS.

• Arc Flash, First Aid and Working at Height training.

• Experience with Schneider, Eaton, Vertiv, ABB or Siemens systems.

• Experience with cooling systems

Soft Skills & Competencies:

• Safety-first approach to all work at site operations

• Accountability for tasks

• Ready to support and share knowledge with local operations teams as we expand our footprint.

• Attention to detail

• Customer focused

• Continuous improvement

• Fluent in English (our company language); knowledge of a local Scandinavian language is considered a significant advantage

• This is a site-based role in Glomfjord, Norway

Performance Measures

• 100% PPM completion and information on the maintenance platform

• Zero safety breaches

• Rapid response to critical alarms

• Accuracy of documentation, information, O&M’s

• Contribution to uptime and PUE targets