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    Associate Director Mission-Critical Engineering Electrical Design

    Competitive
    Asia Pacific
    Permanent
     

    Job Description

    Our Client

    .... is a multi-disciplinary consultancy, offering a wide variety of engineering and sustainability services, together with complementary specialisms, from locations across the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and North Africa.

    The team’s mission is to play a key role in making buildings more energy efficient, sustainable and cost effective to operate and are a source of world leading expertise – and offer a pro-active and collaborative approach to skill development, and professional excellence.

    The Role

    Based in Singapore our client has been working with a major datacenter operator for the past three years on the design of a large datacenter and is now seeking an Associate Director/ Senior Electrical Design Engineer to continue to work on this project and to help develop other similar projects in the future.  The end-user client, size and importance of the current Singapore project requires the services of an electrical design engineer with experience of designing large scale critical facilities, particularly HV power design. The successful candidate will also need to demonstrate the ability to execute large scale designs from “a blank sheet”, be client-facing and able to deal with design resolution issues as they occur.  Along with a critical systems background you will also be experienced in aspects of power engineering.

    Qualifications 

    • Engineering qualification at Bachelor’s degree level or higher in a relevant discipline
    • Chartered Engineer with Engineering Council UK or relevant institution. An alternate professionally recognised body may be considered.
    • Proven experience across the project lifecycle, incorporating a variety of sectors.
    • Proven experience of managing projects and delivering to time and budgetary deadlines, whilst complying with operational and other procedures
    • Several years' experience in the design and construction of large scale datacenters

    The candidate MUST be eligible to live & work in Singapore

    Only candidates who are looking for a long-term career in Singapore should apply

    WE ARE UNABLE TO REPLY TO CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT MEET THE CRITERIA STATED ABOVE 

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