Director, Power Infrastructure

TRIDENT RECRUITMENT PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

TRIDENT RECRUITMENT PTE. LTD. represents a data centre operator expanding AI and HPC infrastructure across Asia, North America and Europe. The role leads a global power infrastructure function to secure capacity for new sites, set engineering standards, and advise senior leadership on where to invest.

This starts as a senior individual-contributor role with a mandate to build the function and grow a team as the portfolio expands, across multiple countries and continents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Electrical/Power Systems Engineering; master's or PhD preferred.
• 10+ years in electrical power systems engineering.
• Experience with 66kV+ transmission or sub-transmission.
• Proven grid connection/interconnection track record with utilities/regulators.
• Senior-level scope: led a function, team, or multi-site portfolio.
• Currently working in power or grid engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the global power infrastructure strategy and roadmap.
• Lead utility, transmission and regulatory engagement to secure grid access and interconnection for new sites.
• Direct capacity assessments, network impact studies and connection agreements.
• Support site selection with power availability and infrastructure feasibility.
• Provide technical leadership on substations, transmission planning and interconnection design.
• Set global power engineering standards and frameworks across all sites.
• Advise senior leadership on power investments, engineering decisions and emerging technologies.

Skills

Power systems engineering

Grid interconnection

Regulatory engagement

Site selection

Technical leadership

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Power Systems Engineering

Master's or PhD an advantage

Tools

ETAP

DIgSILENT PowerFactory

PSS/E

PSCAD

Job description

About Our Client

Our client is a data centre operator with a large and growing footprint across Asia, North America and Europe. They are expanding rapidly into AI and HPC infrastructure, and power has become their most important strategic capability.

About the Role

The company is establishing a global power infrastructurefunction and is hiring the person to lead it. You will be the in-house gridauthority: securing capacity for new sites, leading engagement with utilitiesand regulators across multiple countries, challenging connection timelines andcosts, and setting the power engineering standards every site is built to. Youwill advise senior leadership directly on where to invest and where not to.

This starts as a senior individual-contributor seat with a mandate to build the function and grow a team as the portfolio expands.

What You'll Do

• Own the global power infrastructure strategy and roadmap.
• Lead utility, transmission and regulatory engagement to secure grid access and interconnection for new sites.
• Direct capacity assessments, network impact studies and connection agreements; know when a utility's answer can be improved.
• Support site selection with power availability and infrastructure feasibility.
• Provide technical leadership on substations, transmission planning and interconnection design.
• Set global power engineering standards and frameworks across all sites.
• Advise senior leadership on power investments, engineering decisions and emerging technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Power Systems Engineering. Master's or PhD an advantage.
• 10+ years in electrical power systems engineering.
• Transmission or sub-transmission experience at 66kV and above: substation, protection, network planning or grid studies.
• Direct track record of grid connection or interconnection for large loads or generation, including engagement with a utility and/or regulator. In Singapore this means EMA, SP PowerAssets or SP PowerGrid; equivalent overseas experience is equally valued.
• Senior scope: has led a function, a team, or a multi-site or major-programme portfolio.
• Currently working in power or grid engineering.

Good to Have

• Power system study tools: ETAP, DIgSILENT PowerFactory, PSS/E or PSCAD.
• Data centre or large industrial load electrical architecture: MV/LV distribution, redundancy, UPS, standby generation.
• Professional Engineer (PE / P.Eng) or chartered status.
• Experience across more than one country's grid or regulatory regime.
• On-site generation, BESS or renewable PPA exposure.

Why This Role

• Build a function from the ground up, with a board that is funding it.
• Scope across seven countries and three continents, not one network.
• Sit on the buyer's side of the grid, where your knowledge is priced as revenue rather than overhead.
• Direct access to senior leadership on decisions worth hundreds of megawatts.