Shift Lead (Data Centre)

Princeton Digital Group; Sedenak; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Princeton Digital Group is seeking an experienced Shift Lead to supervise day-to-day data centre operations. The role requires leading shift teams, coordinating with vendors and contractors, and ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and ISO standards.

The candidate should have hands-on data centre or critical facilities experience and strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. A degree in mechanical/electrical/facility engineering is preferred and MS Office/BMS/DCIM

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Facility Engineering.
• Minimum 6 years in data centre operations or critical facilities.
• Proficient in MS Excel, BMS, CMMS/DCIM, ERP, and MS BI.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the on-site lead during shift operations ensuring continuity of critical infrastructure.
• Coordinate 52 Weeks calendar updates for preventive maintenance, annual shutdowns, and drills.
• Ensure compliance with ISO, HSE and related standards.
• Manage daily activities of shift engineers, vendors, and contractors to meet SLAs and environmental setpoints.
• Contract administration and associated reporting.
• Support Operations Manager in critical decision-making for the PDG team.
• Support Continuous Improvement Plan for system performance.
• Review design, operations, and maintenance of data centres; update SOPs, MOPs, and EOPs.

Skills

Leadership

Data centre ops

Incident response

Vendor management

Communication

Excel

BMS/DCIM

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Facility Engineering

Tools

CMMS/DCIM

ERP Systems

Microsoft BI

Job description

Who We Are

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) is a leading developer and operator of AI and cloud hyperscale data centers in Asia Pacific. Headquartered in Singapore, PDG has a presence across high-growth markets in the region including Singapore, Japan, India, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, South Korea, and Australia.

PDG is backed by some of the world’s most reputed blue-chip investors - Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm with a successful history of creating world-class technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) and real estate platforms; Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), Canada's largest profession pension plan; Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign investor that manages a diverse global portfolio for the Government of Abu Dhabi and Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets globally.

Why Join PDG?

• Impact at Scale: Be part of a company that’s enabling digital transformation of economies.
• Career Growth Without Borders: With operations across Asia Pacific and a fast-growing footprint, your next opportunity could be anywhere.
• Culture That Empowers: We foster a collaborative, inclusive environment where every voice is heard and every contribution matters.
• Commitment to Excellence: From governance to workplace safety, we hold ourselves to the highest standards because our people deserve nothing less.

PDG empowers individuals in every role to grow, lead, and leave a lasting impact.

Join us and help build to join us in building the digital future in Asia Pacific.

For more information, you may visit our website www.princetondg.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

We are looking for

An experienced Shift Lead to oversee day-to-day data centre operations, ensuring critical facilities operate safely, efficiently, and within SLA requirements. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, hands-on experience in critical facilities or data centre environments, and the ability to manage shift teams, vendors, maintenance activities, and incident response in a fast-paced operational setting.

Job Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary on-site lead during shift operations, ensuring continuity of critical infrastructure
• Ensure coordination and monitoring of 52 Weeks calendar updates for all plan preventive maintenance, Annual Shut Down, Fire drill and other related activities
• Ensure compliance with operational protocols, ISO standards, HSE and other related standards
• Manage and coordinate daily activities of shift engineers, vendors, and contractors to ensure all systems operate within defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and prescribed environmental setpoints.
• Contract administration and associated reporting
• Support Operations Manager to make critical decision for team with best benefit result for PDG
• Support Continuous Improvement Plan program for system performance
• Improve operations and procedures, ensure fulfil internal and external audit requirement for document standard
• Responsible to review design, operations, and maintenance of data centre, including establish, sustain and revise SOP, MOP and EOP from time to time
• Chaired daily operation meeting with SME, Vendors and Manager to update daily operation issue, outstanding activities, system capacity and energy usage
• Monitor and control all critical data centre parameters and utility consumption trends to ensure compliance with operating specifications, promptly analysing and escalating any abnormalities or deviations.
• Manage the outsource vendors including access, permit to work, PM works, emergency support and spare part availability
• Manage shift personal and team performance. Ensure availability of shift crews including necessary coverage of plan/unplan leave and effective handovers
• Prepare necessary report in routine basis. Highlight and follow up whenever issues encountered
• Manage incident by executing escalation procedures according to criticality and priority. Responsible for effectiveness of team on respond time
• Support sustaining efforts by the timely and resolve reoccurring issues with internal and external resources
• Conduct and ensure the whole shift team receives related training to operate the facilities effectively

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical and Facility Engineering or other relevant technical disciplines
• At least 6 years of experience in data centre operations or critical facilities
• Familiar with Microsoft Excel and Word, BMS, CMMS/DCIM, ERP, Microsoft BI.
• Strong leadership and decision-making under pressure
• Highly proficient in communication and interpersonal skills
• Proactive, disciplined, punctual, and detail-oriented
• Strong sense of responsibility and integrity

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