Senior Electrical Engineer - Critical Data Centre Ops

Ikg Talent; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IKG Talent seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer for Melbourne, VIC to own critical electrical systems in a live data centre environment. You will lead field engineering during outages, coordinate protection schemes, and govern switching procedures to ensure reliability and safety.

The role requires hands-on expertise with HV switching, fault-finding, and experience in data centre operations, commissioning, and energisation. On-site permanent position with multi-regional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Trade, diploma, or degree qualification in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Extensive experience with mission-critical electrical systems (data centres, utilities, hospitals, industrial facilities, or similar)
• Strong hands-on switching and fault-finding capability
• Experience with protection coordination and discrimination studies
• Proven experience authoring and reviewing switching procedures
• Strong understanding of redundancy philosophies (N, N+1, 2N, etc.)
• Authorised HV switching experience
• Experience in live data centre operations
• Commissioning and energisation exposure
• Familiarity with relay configuration and event analysis software
• Experience contributing to or leading RCAs

Responsibilities

• Own electrical system ownership for critical facilities, covering HV and LV distribution, transformers, switchboards, generators, UPS, and battery infrastructure
• Provide hands-on field engineering support during major electrical events, outages, protection trips, and commissioning activities
• Lead on-site fault isolation, protection reviews, and recovery strategy, including energisation
• Govern switching procedures, EOPs, MOPs, SOPs, isolation and energisation docs, and risk mitigations
• Drive continuous improvement of procedural quality based on incidents and field feedback

Skills

Hands-on switching

Fault-finding capability

Protection coordination

Discrimination studies

Authorised HV switching

Live data centre operations

RCAs investigations

Commissioning and energisation

Education

Electrical Engineering qualification (trade/diploma/degree)

Job description

IKG Talent seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer for Melbourne, VIC to own critical electrical systems in a live data centre environment. You will lead field engineering during outages, coordinate protection schemes, and govern switching procedures to ensure reliability and safety.

The role requires hands-on expertise with HV switching, fault-finding, and experience in data centre operations, commissioning, and energisation. On-site permanent position with multi-regional collaboration.