Regional Electrical Engineer

TURNER & TOWNSEND PTE. LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational engineering firm is seeking an Electrical Engineer in Singapore to provide critical design and engineering support for data center projects. The role entails collaboration with stakeholders, managing consultants, and ensuring quality in installations while traveling approximately 25% of the time. Applicants should have a degree in Electrical Engineering and at least eight years of relevant experience in electrical distribution and design.

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight years of experience in electrical distribution design and construction.
• Experience with high voltage, medium voltage, and low voltage power distribution.
• Registration as an Electrical Professional Engineer or working towards it.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to define project design criteria and lead technical scope reviews.
• Manage consultants through all project phases from design to construction.
• Provide construction administrative support during project execution.

Skills

Electrical distribution design

High voltage substation design

Troubleshooting skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Visio

Bluebeam

SKM software

Job description

About the Role:

As an Electrical Engineer, you will provide essential design and engineering support for data center projects. This role falls within the Engineering and Technical Services job function, where you will be responsible for supporting, maintaining, and repairing equipment and systems. This is a full-time, on-site position with an expected duration until September 2026.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define project design criteria, develop Basis of Design and lead internal technical scope reviews
• Technical leader managing consultants to implement the project through schematic design, design development, to construction documents
• Provide construction administrative support to the project manager during construction.
• Tasks include but not limited to, responding to RFI’s, issuance of technical bulletins, review submittals and shop-drawings, conducting source inspections at vendor factories and participating in the data center construction commissioning process
• Provide and analyze energy efficient solutions to minimize power losses
• Review and develop detailed scripts for change management request (CMR) activities
• Travel to data center sites for engineering studies, electrical systems audits, startup testing, and full commissioning, as required.
• Approximately 25% travel to both domestic and international project locations
• Provide electrical mission critical system review services to local data center operations teams
• Participate in equipment failure or power outage related incident Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA)
• Provide instructions to design consultants, installation contractors and validate the quality of installed works
• Respond on an as-needed basis to emergencies
• Serve as Owner Engineer able to navigate competing priorities to effectively deliver capacity

About you:

• Minimum Qualifications
  • BS in Electrical Engineering, or related degree
  • Electrical Professional Engineer registration, or working towards it
  • Minimum of eight (8) years professional experience in electrical distribution design and construction
  • Experience with high voltage (>115kV), medium voltage (35kV, 20kV 12kV) substation design, low voltage (480V/400V) power distribution, and UPS systems
  • Experience with industry standards, building codes and safety standards including NFPA70, NFPA70E, IEC, BSEN, NSAI and IEEE
  • Experience with construction and cost estimating processes
  • Experience with electrical safety programs
  • Experience with retrofits in operational facilities
  • Experience with cross-discipline (i.e. Mechanical, Building Management Systems, Fire Alarm/Fire Protection, etc.) critical facility systems
  • Experience with AutoCAD or Revit, Visio, Bluebeam, and SKM software
  • Trouble-shooting and analytical skills
  • Experience providing solutions to complex projects under pressure

Preferred Qualifications

• Electrical Professional Engineer registration PE/CEng
• Data center or mission critical design, construction and operations experience
• Experience on large scale electrical construction projects
• Project Management experience
• Experience in data center or mission critical design and construction support
• Experience with Electrical Power Management/SCADA systems
• Experience performing short circuit and arc flash studies
• IEEE PES or IEEE IAS Membership
• Strong communication skills