Our client is a rapidly growing data centre platform providing mission critical infrastructure solutions to enterprise, cloud and technology customers. Backed by leading private equity investors, the business is executing an ambitious growth strategy focused on expanding capacity, enhancing operational performance and delivering long term value. As a capital intensive infrastructure business operating in a high growth sector, they combine operational excellence with disciplined financial management to support scalable growth and strong investor returns.
This is a business that values technical excellence, commercial discipline and long term thinking, and offers a rare opportunity to be part of shaping an organisation's engineering DNA from a formative stage of its growth.
About The Role
This is a genuine opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to take ownership of the design and technical delivery of hyperscale and AI ready data centre developments, from concept through to construction and commissioning.
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will provide technical leadership across electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, hydraulics and fire protection disciplines, coordinating consultants, utility providers, equipment vendors, contractors and customer technical representatives throughout the design lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading engineering design and technical development of hyperscale and AI ready data centre projects
- Managing the end to end design process and chairing design workshops and technical coordination meetings
- Establishing and maintaining engineering design standards and governance processes
- Leading value engineering, constructability and operational readiness reviews
- Coordinating with electricity network providers, water authorities and telecommunications carriers
- Supporting procurement, technical evaluations and contract negotiations
- Providing engineering oversight during construction, commissioning and handover
- Acting as the primary engineering interface for customers, consultants and regulatory authorities
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar
- 8 to 15 years' experience in engineering design, design management or technical project delivery within data centres, mission critical facilities or complex infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary consultants through concept, detailed design, procurement, construction and commissioning
- Strong understanding of mission critical electrical and mechanical systems, redundancy philosophies and operational resilience
- Excellent knowledge of Australian Standards, the National Construction Code and statutory approval processes
- Experience delivering hyperscale, colocation or high density AI ready infrastructure highly regarded
- Experience within a developer, owner operator or private equity backed organisation is advantageous
- Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng), or progressing towards chartership, well regarded
- Strong stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills
- Play a key technical leadership role in a rapidly growing digital infrastructure platform
- Shape engineering standards and design philosophy across a growing portfolio of hyperscale developments
- Work on nationally significant, mission critical AI ready infrastructure projects
- Private equity backed business with genuine career growth and long term value creation
- Collaborative, high performance culture with exposure to senior leadership and major stakeholders
- Melbourne CBD
- Attractive Salary Package
