The Position:
The Electrical Systems Specialist – Field Engineering is a hands-on subject matter expert responsible for the reliability, safety, and performance of mission-critical electrical infrastructure within a live data centre environment.
This role operates at the intersection of operations, engineering, and risk, providing deep technical leadership on electrical systems while remaining actively engaged in the field. The position is accountable for engineering ownership, fault investigation, procedural governance, and uplift of operational capability across site teams.
Key Responsibility:
Electrical System Ownership
- Act as technical owner for critical electrical systems including:
- HV and LV distribution systems
- Transformers and switchboards
- Generators and fuel systems
- UPS systems and battery infrastructure
- Maintain deep system knowledge including design intent, protection philosophies, discrimination studies, and recovery strategies
- Ensure systems operate within defined engineering, protection coordination, and reliability thresholds
Field Engineering & Fault Response
- Provide hands-on field engineering support during:
- Major electrical events and outages
- Protection trips and nuisance alarms
- Complex fault scenarios
- Commissioning, recommissioning, and post-incident recovery
- Lead on-site fault isolation, protection review, and restoration strategy
- Support live operations during elevated risk activities such as switching, load transfers, and energisation
Engineering Governance & Procedures
- Peer-review, and approve:
- Electrical switching procedures
- EOPs, MOPs, and SOPs
- Isolation and energisation documentation
- Temporary operating procedures and risk mitigations
- Ensure switching documents align with protection settings, arc flash studies, and discrimination design
- Own continuous improvement of procedural quality based on operational feedback and incidents
Must-have Qualifications:
Essential:
- Trade, diploma, or degree qualification in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Extensive experience with mission-critical electrical systems (data centres, utilities, hospitals, industrial facilities, or similar)
- Strong hands-on switching and fault-finding capability
- Experience with protection coordination and discrimination studies
- Proven experience authoring and reviewing switching procedures
- Strong understanding of redundancy philosophies (N, N+1, 2N, etc.)
Desirable:
- Authorised HV switching experience
- Experience in live data centre operations
- Commissioning and energisation exposure
- Familiarity with relay configuration and event analysis software
- Experience contributing to or leading RCAs
This might be right for you if:
- You don’t get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple high-level priorities with competing timelines while welcoming a new, urgent challenge with ease.
- Are culturally sensitive and enjoy working with a diverse group of individuals from multiple regions.
- You pay attention to the details – meticulously, and every time. Nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
- You’re collaborative. You enjoy working with others to solve problems – and people enjoy working with you. You can shift from being a leader to a contributor when needed.
- You’re smart. You think five steps ahead and see issues from multiple angles. You’re not just a problem solver – you’re a problem preventer.
Equal Opportunity Employer
STACK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
