Principal ICT Engineer

RED Engineering Design; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

RED Engineering Design, an expanding international M&E consultancy, seeks an experienced ICT and project leadership professional in Singapore. You will oversee technical design work, lead a small team, and interface with clients and partners on multi-disciplinary data centre and security infrastructure projects.

Ideal candidates have 5–10 years in ICT consultancy, strong leadership, and ability to manage resources, costings, and reporting across APAC.

Qualifications

• At least 5-10 years’ appropriate employment experience.
• ICT consultancy and project management experience.
• Security consultancy and building ICT/SECURITY systems knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Oversee technical design work, ensuring quality and timelines.
• Actively represent RED ICT in multi-disciplinary technical design meetings.
• Be the primary RED ICT contact for clients and partners.
• Coordinate project progress, reporting and resourcing; APAC interface.
• Estimate, costings and fee calculations; support commercial activities.

Skills

Team leadership

Client relationship

Commercial project management

Interpersonal communication

English writing

Job description

RED an expanding international M&E consultancy, with a proven track record in low energy design, focused on providing excellent design solutions to clients.

This position requires excellent technical credentials and the ability to organise, motivate and manage a small team of highly capable individuals.

This will appeal to talented ICT professional with several years track-record to advance their career with the world's leading designer of complex buildings.

As partner of choice for many well-known Technology Firms, this role represents an opportunity to work with highly experienced and talented engineering teams.

A typical project involves the detailed ICT and Security infrastructure design for Hyperscale Data Centre buildings, technology campuses and Colocation facilities.

As a highly respected International Consulting Engineering Group, RED provide a highly rewarding Salary & Benefits package. Staff in this position are invited to participate in technical training courses and professional leadership coaching programmes.

All staff enjoy the flexibility to operate within the RED hybrid location working model, featuring a regional office network, international travel and location mobility.

The role has three primary components:

• Project Technical and Team Leadership
• Project Coordination and Reporting
• Commercial Representation

Key responsibilities include the following:

Project Technical and Staff Leadership

• Oversee technical design work, in particular quality and timelines
• Actively represent RED ICT in multi-disciplinary technical design meetings
• Act as the RED ICT primary point of contact for clients and partners
• Visible & active contribution in project facing activities, technical meetings

Project Coordination and Reporting

• Facilitate and host project progress and quality reviews
• Undertake resourcing planning, provide regular and consistent project reporting
• Act as the APAC regional interface with RED ICT management
• Provide continuous updates regarding client and partner commercial activity

Commercial Representation

• Work closely with office colleagues commercially representing RED ICT
• Interface with management for, estimating, project costings and fee calculations
• Response to ICT consultancy enquiries, fee proposal production, presentation
• Support market activities to raise the commercial profile of RED in the region

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• At least 5 -10 years’ appropriate employment experience
• IT/Multi-disciplinary consulting firm
• ICT consultancy and project management
• Security Consultancy
• Construction project management (with a technology emphasis)
• Experience in ICT & SECURITY infrastructure, building ICT & SECURITY fit-out migration and occupation from Design to Delivery
• Fully Integrated ICT & SECURITY System Design Solution and industry standard open protocols
• Security Management System - CCTV, ACS, IDS, Intercom, Physical Security
• Building Networks (Active & Passive) supporting the ICT & SECURITY system

Ideally the candidate will have a technical understanding of the following

• Critical Facilities/Data Centre Design
• Campus Networks
• LAN Ethernet Switching
• Redundancy and Diverse Routes
• Wi-Fi Network Communications
• Structured CablingSystems
• Data Cabling Containment Systems
• Telecommunication Network Infrastructure and Services
• External Underground Network Services
• TVRA
• Redundancy and Diversity on the routes
• Low current Systems – SCADA, BMS, EPMS, Security, Detection
• LEED / Local Green Building Regulation such as Estidama, DGBR

Professional Skills

• Key attributes:
• Strong inter-personal communication skills
• Team leadership
• Client relationship
• Commercial project management
• Comfortable communicating at senior executive level
• Support and mentor junior staff members
• High quality English written grammatical skills
• Act in an ethical manner and follow the principles of the Ethics Charter and Ethics in Practice Guidelines of the Group
• Understanding of International working practices

If you think you have what it takes to join an award winning team and help RED continue its exciting journey, we want to hear from you!