Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most creative, and rapidly growing data centre company?

AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.

Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…

Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.

A Snapshot

As Principal Electrical Engineer, you will report to the Senior Director, Engineering and be based at our North Sydney headquarters. You will lead AirTrunk's electrical engineering discipline and its team of electrical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), working across Design and Engineering, Development, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning. You will make an impact in the following ways:

- Lead, develop and empower a high-performing team of electrical engineering SMEs, setting clear accountabilities, strengthening technical capability and building succession coverage.
- Act as AirTrunk's senior electrical technical authority, escalation point and delegated decision maker for material electrical risks, interpretations and design decisions.
- Own the lifecycle of global electrical engineering and construction standards and electrical Owner-Supplied Equipment (OSE) specifications, ensuring they remain current, practical,



controlled and consistently adopted.
- Forecast and allocate electrical engineering resources across the global project pipeline according to project risk, design maturity and business priority, balancing workload and continuity.
- Provide risk-based technical direction and independent design assurance from concept through IFC, confirming compliance with AirTrunk standards without owning day-to-day project design coordination or driving the general contractor's design development.
- Be accountable for the discipline's cost outcomes, technical compliance and engineering suitability, including safety, resilience, operability, constructability, maintainability and lifecycle value.
- Drive global consistency, standardisation and value engineering while protecting safety, regulatory compliance, resilience, customer commitments and operational performance.
- Turn lessons from design, delivery, commissioning and operations into improvements to standards, specifications, assurance practices and team capability.

Your Day to Day

- Lead the electrical SME team through clear objectives, coaching, performance management, development planning, recruitment and succession management.
- Maintain a forward electrical resource plan and assign appropriately skilled SMEs to projects and technical initiatives, resolving priority or capacity conflicts with the Senior Director,



Engineering.
- Set electrical technical direction and acceptance criteria across LV distribution systems, standby generation, UPS systems, BESS systems earthing, protection and grading, power quality, controls interfaces and electrical OSE.
- Establish the scope, timing and depth of risk-based electrical reviews across concept, preliminary, schematic, detailed and IFC design stages, and verify that agreed actions are closed.
- Review designs and technical submissions to confirm alignment with AirTrunk standards, approved project requirements, applicable codes and customer commitments. Design Management retains ownership of project design coordination and the project design basis, while project delivery teams and their designers remain responsible for developing the design.
- Serve as the senior electrical escalation point and make timely, evidence-based decisions within delegated authority; clearly record the decision, rationale, risks, conditions and accountable owner.
- Approve, reject or elevate electrical departures, waivers, interpretations, substitutions and material non-conformances in accordance with the technical authority framework and risk appetite.
- Own and approve electrical engineering and construction standards and OSE specifications, including review cadence, change control, stakeholder consultation, release communication, implementation guidance and evidence of adoption.
- Maintain visibility of electrical cost drivers and benchmarks, challenge unnecessary complexity and sponsor value engineering that improves capital efficiency, programme, repeatability, energy performance or lifecycle cost without weakening technica

📌 Principal Electrical Engineer (North Sydney)
🏢 AirTrunk
📍 North Sydney