Senior Data Center Engineering Lead

Excellerate; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job description

Who we are

We are the market leader in commercial real estate services and investments and provide an integrated suite of high-quality real estate services to our clients across Africa and the Middle East, including facilities management, advisory & transaction services, project management. We support predominantly corporate clients who buy services on a contracted basis all across the Middle East and Africa - even globally, depending on their portfolio.

Why choose us

Imagine more than just the future of work; with CBRE Excellerate, you can create it. As part of our global powerhouse, you'll find a culture that fosters an entrepreneurial mindset, where your best work is not just encouraged but celebrated. Collaborate with talented individuals, harness the support of unparalleled resources, and enjoy the journey as you grow both personally and professionally.

About the role:

The primary purpose of this role is to provide senior technical leadership and operational oversight for critical data centre facilities and engineering services, ensuring safe, compliant and reliable operation of all critical infrastructure. The role is responsible for maintaining engineering resilience and availability, supporting the client's uptime objectives, and providing technical direction to site engineering teams and service providers.

The Senior Technical Lead acts as a senior technical authority across the data centre environment, ensuring planned and reactive maintenance, critical works, change activities, incident response, risk mitigation, engineering standards and technical compliance are effectively managed. The role also provides technical leadership during the mobilisation and operational readiness of new data centre contracts and provides technical input into tenders and client solutions.

What you will bring:

• Minimum 8-10 years' relevant technical engineering / Facilities Management experience, preferably within mission-critical or data centre environments.
• Engineering degree, diploma or recognised technical equivalent.
• Valid GMR 2(1) appointment under the applicable South African Occupational Health and Safety requirements, with demonstrated competence to fulfil the legal appointment.
• Valid Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) - Electrical, Factories.
• Demonstrated data centre critical infrastructure and building services experience.
• Proven experience in electrical and mechanical critical systems, including MV/LV electrical distribution, UPS, generators, cooling/HVAC, fire and life safety systems and associated controls. Detailed exposure to transformers, MV/LV switchgear, ATS/STS, PDUs, protection systems and relays, earthing and lightning protection, power quality/metering, and EPMS/BMS/DCIM interfaces.
• MV switching qualification and/or demonstrated MV switching experience.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience of Permit-to-Work systems, isolation procedures and safe systems of work.
• Experience developing and implementing SOPs, EOPs, CWP documentation and technical risk assessments.
• Proven experience in incident investigation, RCA development and presentation of technical findings to senior/C-suite stakeholders.
• Valid driver's licence and willingness to travel within South Africa and the Africa region, where required.
• Ideally at least 5 years' experience within data centres or