Principal Electrical Engineer

Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
A Snapshot
As Principal Electrical Engineer, you will report to the Senior Director, Engineering and be based at our North Sydney headquarters. You will lead AirTrunk's electrical engineering discipline and its team of electrical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), working across Design and Engineering, Development, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning. You will make an impact in the following ways:
Lead, develop and empower a high-performing team of electrical engineering SMEs, setting clear accountabilities, strengthening technical capability and building succession coverage.
Act as AirTrunk's senior electrical technical authority, escalation point and delegated decision maker for material electrical risks, interpretations and design decisions.
Own the lifecycle of global electrical engineering and construction standards and electrical Owner-Supplied Equipment (OSE) specifications, ensuring they remain current, practical, controlled and consistently adopted.
Forecast and allocate electrical engineering resources across the global project pipeline according to project risk, design maturity and business priority, balancing workload and continuity.
Provide risk-based technical direction and independent design assurance from concept through IFC, confirming compliance with AirTrunk standards without owning day-to-day project design coordination or driving the general contractor's design development.