Director, Electrical Systems

A Snapshot 

As Director of Electrical Systems based in Sydney or Singapore, you will report to the Senior Director -Technical Operations and work closely with various teams and leadership across the Asia Pacific region, making your mark in several ways: 

• You are a multi disciplined data centre technical operations SME 

• Multiskilled with electrical (HV/MV/LV) experience and knowledge across a wide range of asset types and data centre designs. 

• You are a highly experienced technical manager with great communication skills and a leader of leaders. 

• As the Director of Electrical Systems, you will interface with key areas of the business such as Design & innovation, construction, commissioning & procurement as the voice of the customer. 

 

Your Day to Day  

• Manage a team of Electrical specialists to ensure effective solutions implementation and issue resolution. 

• Represent Technical Operations in all design aspects of new builds and upgrades including vendor selection. FWT/FOK, Commissioning and testing as needed. 

• Define & augment when required our product specifications with an “Operational Lens” 

• Define the required maintenance (frequency and scope) on all electrical critical infrastructure & develop standards which will be implemented across the portfolio. 

• Partner with site operations on event RCA’s, product failures, risks and be the central Electrical Systems feedback loop for our design / procurement teams. 

• Oversight and resolution of the Electrical operational aspects of new project deployments. 

• Development of Electrical operations strategies for new sites across APAC, with a focus on local codes & regulations especially in emerging regions where codes are evolving. 

• Support operational incidents and escalation with technical expertise. 

• Effective and timely Problem resolution within Electrical Systems. 

• Vendor engagement on product performance 

 

Requirements  

• You have 10+ years of experience in working in either data centres or mission critical environments  

• Ideally, you have experience working for a data centre operator and have previous hyperscale experience in the APAC market  

• You have tenured experience with managing a team of specialist electrical engineers. 

• You are a strong team player and exceptional communicator with influencing skills – working across partner teams in AirTrunk such as Development, Design/ Procurement. 

• You are the subject matter expert for all aspects of Electrical Systems operations including aspects such Low/Medium/High Voltage installations. 

• Ideally, you have strong commercial acumen to understand the commercial implications of engineering decisions 

• You are willing to travel to other APAC regions on a regular basis