Job Title
Chief Engineer
Job Description Summary
The Chief Engineer is the technical lead for hard services across the data centre portfolio and the single technical point of contact for engineering service delivery. The role manages maintenance, technical standards, resources, vendors, reporting and engineering-team performance.
Job Description
About the Role:
- Technical leadership: Lead the hard-services team, provide technical oversight, and act as the single point of contact with the client on technical, engineering, maintenance, operational and administration issues.
- Maintenance governance: Plan, coordinate and review PPM and corrective maintenance across electrical, mechanical, fire, water, fuel, building and monitoring systems, including rack power-up support; ensure monthly PPM is completed to schedule, with documented reasons and mitigation plans for any deviation.
- Procedure and quality control: Ensure work follows approved MOPs, maintenance guidelines, OEM requirements, permits, risk assessments and client standards; review work quality before closure.
- Resource management: Allocate personnel, materials, tools and time effectively and coordinate Technician Leads, technicians, OEMs and authorised third parties.
- Vendor and call-out management: Coordinate specialist vendors, validate technical findings, monitor response and repair activity, and ensure fault-analysis reports are complete and corrective maintenance proposals are submitted within five business days in line with agreed direct-cost rates.
- Engineering reporting: Establish consistent technical reports across all services; ensure work orders are closed accurately within four weeks of initiation; complete RCA/RCFA with action plans within one week of an incident; and provide technical input to the monthly management report within the first five working days of each month.
- People leadership: Manage recruitment, performance assessment, coaching, competency development, team building and technical training for the engineering team.
- Safety and compliance: Ensure worksite safety, PPE, K3 controls, permits, isolation controls and Safety, Security and Environmental requirements are implemented.
- Competence and certification: Maintain the engineering competency matrix and ensure all mandatory certifications and statutory trainings (First Aid, Fire Fighting Class D, Teknisi K3 Listrik, TKBT 1/Working at Height, Scaffolding Operator and manufacturer fire-system training) and annual client in-house refreshers are completed.
- Statutory compliance: Track and coordinate periodic licence and certificate renewals, including SLO/SLF, fire-system (Damkar) and K3 Umum documentation, and maintain inspection evidence for audits.
About You:
- 7+ years of engineering and maintenance experience in mission-critical environments, preferably hyperscale or colocation data centres, including at least 3 years in a supervisory or chief-engineer role.
- Relevant degree, diploma or trade qualification in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Proven experience leading technical personnel, maintenance programmes, contractors and incident resolution.
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;
- Being part of a growing global company;
- Career development and a promote from within culture;
- An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.
We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
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