Operations Director

mission critical recruitment; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus scheme

Full healthcare insurance

Ownership of regional delivery

Job summary

Mission Critical Recruitment seeks an Operations Director - APAC to lead regional delivery for a European data centre specialist expanding in APAC. You will shape how projects are delivered, with autonomy to drive regional profitability and growth.

Hybrid work in Singapore with travel, a generous bonus scheme, and comprehensive healthcare are part of the package as you own the regional delivery blueprint and team growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive operations, construction or engineering experience, ideally within data centres or a comparable technically demanding sector.
• Proven track record managing multiple concurrent projects and operational teams.
• Commercially astute, with a strong grasp of project delivery, scheduling and cost control.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional operational and project delivery activity across data centre projects in APAC. Working alongside the Executive Vice President (APAC), you'll be accountable for operational excellence, customer satisfaction, profitability and sustainable growth.
• Provide both strategic and hands-on leadership across project operations, manpower planning, subcontractor management, logistics, materials, HSE, quality, commercial control and the customer interface, so that projects are delivered safely, on time, on budget and to the required quality standard.

Skills

Operations experience

Project management

Commercial acumen

Job description

Operations Director - APAC

Singapore

Most operations leaders in this space inherit a machine that already runs itself. This is the opposite. You would be building the delivery engine for a proven European data centre specialist as it scales across APAC, with the autonomy to set how projects get delivered rather than administering someone else's process.

You sit directly alongside the VP for the region, so decisions get made in a conversation rather than through three layers of committee. The scope is genuinely broad. Manpower planning, supply chain, logistics, commercial control, HSE and the client relationship all sit with you, which is unusual for a role at this level and hard to find once you have grown past single project delivery.

The market backdrop does the rest. APAC data centre demand is not slowing, and this business already has the European track record, client relationships and delivery standards to win the work. What it needs is someone to make regional delivery repeatable and profitable. Get that right and you own the operational blueprint for a region that is only going to get bigger, with the team you build under you.

Hybrid working will give you the flexibility to balance time in the office with regional travel, while a generous bonus scheme and full healthcare insurance will reward your contributions. You'll also gain real ownership of a growing business in Asia, backed by a global brand.

What you'll do

Lead regional operational and project delivery activity across data centre projects in APAC. Working alongside the Executive Vice President (APAC), you'll be accountable for operational excellence, customer satisfaction, profitability and sustainable growth.

Provide both strategic and hands-on leadership across project operations, manpower planning, subcontractor management, logistics, materials, HSE, quality, commercial control and the customer interface, so that projects are delivered safely, on time, on budget and to the required quality standard.

What you'll need

• Extensive operations, construction or engineering experience, ideally within data centres or a comparable technically demanding sector
• Proven track record managing multiple concurrent projects and operational teams
• Commercially astute, with a strong grasp of project delivery, scheduling and cost control

About the company

A specialist data centre fit-out, MEP construction and managed services business, operating to the highest standards across Europe and now scaling its presence in APAC. The business has built its reputation on quality of delivery, long term client retention and a genuinely robust health, safety and wellbeing culture, and continues to broaden its service offering in line with client needs.