Electrical Lead - Data Centres

About the role

IKG Talent is recruiting, on behalf of a major global engineering and infrastructure consultancy, an Electrical Lead for its ANZ Data Centre team. The consultancy delivers large-scale hyperscale, colocation and mission-critical projects for major technology and infrastructure operators, and the ANZ data centre pipeline is growing. The role covers electrical leadership across live projects in Australia and New Zealand, from early design through to commissioning and handover.

Key responsibilities

• Own electrical delivery across a live portfolio of mission-critical projects, from early design through to commissioning and handover.
• Direct multidisciplinary design teams and keep delivery on track at each project stage.
• Set the standard for engineering quality by reviewing designs, signing off critical deliverables and catching issues early.
• Balance technical rigour with commercial reality, considering cost, programme and risk.
• Act as a trusted technical voice for clients and build relationships that bring repeat and referral work.
• Develop the electrical engineers around you so capability grows across the team.

Required profile

• A strong track record delivering complex electrical engineering on data centre, mission-critical or comparable advanced facilities projects.
• Experience running multidisciplinary teams through large, technically demanding builds.
• A history of working directly with major clients, shaping their requirements beyond the brief.
• Chartered status and a relevant electrical engineering qualification.

Required skills

• Solid knowledge of the electrical systems underpinning mission-critical environments, such as redundancy, resilience and power distribution.
• Strong commercial instincts: understanding of risk, programme and how engineering decisions land commercially.