High Voltage Design Manager HQ

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

Air Trunk is a technology 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 hyperscale data centres 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 Air Trunk, where the cloud meets the ground.

• Assist the Technical Director HV & Utility to peer review and manage the Air Trunk standard HV campus design.
• Work with the Technical Director HV & Utility & Energy & Utility Manager to interface with the Electrical Supply Authorities to switch and transform the transmission voltage [66kV to 500kV] to the Air Trunk campus distribution voltage [132kV, 33kV, 22kV, 6.6kV] for 100MW+ capacities.
• Assist the Site Selection and Master planning Teams to select and plan the campuses.
• Develop unique building scale HV designs, downstream of the campus infrastructure or ESA point of connection [for a single building].
• Integrate new technologies to achieve Net Carbon Zero targets: BESS, solar, embedded generation.
• Make periodic visits to regions within the APAC for factory testing and site visits.

• Internal peer review of HV designs, proposed equipment and General Contractors (GC) submissions.
• Assist in developing and managing Air Trunk HV Specification and Technical Requirements.
• Ensure lessons learnt and improvements are effectively managed.
• Maintain consistency across all the Air Trunk APAC campuses.
• Work closely with the Energy, Development and Customer Solutions Teams.
• Facilitate the integration of grid connected BESS and other technologies.
• Develop Air Trunk’s HV on site networks to be as safe as possible, meeting or exceeding local code requirement and industry best practice.
• Develop and manage the HV network design on new and existing Air Trunk networks, advising on primary and secondary HV substation design, MV distribution, SCADA, earthing and DC systems.
• Provide continual improvement to the existing HV systems designs by collaborating with the technology team during design phases to give key HV operational input.
• Specify and review Air Trunk’s HV network owner supplied equipment OSE to all applicable specifications and required standards.
• Assist in negotiating at a technical level with electrical supply authorities.
• Assist the Development Team’s Utility Power Engineer to provide technical assistance during construction work. Work with the Operation Team’s Electrical Systems Specialist in the resolution of incident related, standing, or emerging problems which fall outside of the local operations capacity.
• Identify cost saving opportunities and system improvements.
• Assist project and commissioning engineers with electrical related issues when required.
• Assist Development Team reviews and provide operational guidance to designs.
• Assist Energy Team with the negotiation of contracts and tariffs with the Energy Retailers.
• Involvement in Safety-in-Design lifecycle.

• Professional qualifications in Electrical Engineering with postgraduate qualifications a bonus.
• Registered professional engineer in the country of residence.
• Minimum 10 years extensive experience with a utility or in electrical contracting, engineering consultancy as a HV Engineer delivering 10MW+ projects.
• Experience with the Transmission & Distribution industry as it relates to infrastructure and energy retailing.
• Excellent technical knowledge of HV systems and assets such as switch gear, transformers, protection systems, SCADA and earthing systems.
• In depth knowledge of substation primary and secondary design.
• In-depth knowledge in power system software such as ETAP and PSCAD.
• Good understanding of BESS, solar and embedded…