About the Role
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 provides technical leadership on electrical systems, engineering ownership, fault investigation, and procedural governance.
Responsibilities
- Act as technical owner for HV and LV distribution systems, transformers, switchboards, generators, fuel systems, UPS, and battery infrastructure.
- Maintain deep system knowledge including design intent, protection philosophies, and recovery strategies.
- Ensure systems operate within defined engineering, protection coordination, and reliability thresholds.
- Provide hands-on field engineering support during major electrical events, outages, protection trips, and complex fault scenarios.
- Lead on-site fault isolation, protection review, and restoration strategy.
- Support live operations during elevated risk activities such as switching, load transfers, and energisation.
- Peer-review and approve electrical switching procedures, EOPs, MOPs, SOPs, and isolation documentation.
- Ensure switching documents align with protection settings, arc flash studies, and discrimination design.
- Drive continuous improvement of procedural quality based on operational feedback and incidents.
Requirements
- Trade, diploma, or degree qualification in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- Extensive experience with mission-critical electrical systems in data centres, utilities, hospitals, or industrial facilities.
- 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 such as N, N+1, and 2N.
Skills
- HV switching
- Live data centre operations
- Commissioning and energisation
- Relay configuration
- Event analysis software
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Education Level
- Trade qualification
- Diploma
- Degree in Electrical Engineering
About the Company
- STACK Infrastructure builds, owns, and operates hyperscale and colocation data centers.
- The company powers the world’s most ambitious technology companies with a rapidly expanding footprint across APAC.
- STACK combines deep development expertise, flexible capital, and operational discipline to deliver critical digital infrastructure.
Equal Opportunity
- STACK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
- 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 law.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
