Power Quality Engineer (Data Centre / Critical Facilities) (50% Travel)

Role Summary

This is a build-it role with a leading global operator of high-density compute and data centre infrastructure. You'll be a key technical voice in a Performance Assurance team responsible for keeping mission-critical sites running at peak reliability across our international portfolio. You'll travel across APAC and global locations (~50% of the time), see the equipment in real operating conditions, and turn what you measure into decisions that protect tens of millions of dollars of mission-critical assets.

If you've spent your career so far in a refinery, power plant, semiconductor fab, petrochemical facility, utility, or another high-stakes industrial environment — and you're ready to apply that mission-critical mindset to one of the most demanding compute infrastructures in the world — this is the role you've been training for, even if you didn't know it.

Responsibilities

• Own the power quality and asset reliability monitoring program for global data centre and critical power systems, supporting Tier III/IV-class availability
• Travel to sites to install, commission, and run long-term and ad-hoc monitoring using professional-grade analysers (Fluke, Dranetz, Hioki, PQube, Schneider ION, or equivalent) — capturing voltage, frequency, harmonics, three-phase imbalance, flicker, and voltage dip/swell data
• Turn raw data into operational decisions using Python, MATLAB, or advanced Excel — running 95th-percentile evaluations, exceedance analysis, event waveform reviews, and trend reports aligned with IEC 61000 and related international standards
• Hunt down disturbance sources — non-linear loads, UPS systems, energy storage PCS inverters — and propose mitigation (active/passive filters, reactive power compensation, design changes)
• Lead pre-connection power quality reviews for battery energy storage system (BESS) integration projects — on-site testing and verification of harmonics, fluctuations, and fault ride-through against IEC 61000, IEEE 519, and EN 50160
• Be the in-house technical authority on power quality and asset reliability — running internal training, briefing operations and project teams, and tracking how international standards are evolving

Requirements

• 5–10 years of hands-on engineering experience in mission-critical industrial environments
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, High Voltage, or related discipline.
• Solid grounding in HV/LV electrical systems — switchgear, transformers, UPS, generators, ATS, motors, VSDs, protection systems.
• Comfortable with — or willing to deepen — your hands-on use of professional power quality analysers (Fluke 435/1760/174 or equivalent). Even if your current role doesn't have you running them daily, you understand the measurement principles and want to grow this specialism
• Familiarity with IEC 61000-4-30, IEEE 519, EN 50160 or equivalent international PQ standards.
• Data-fluent. Python or MATLAB or advanced Excel skills
• Open to ~50% travel.
• Bonus points for any direct experience with BESS integration, harmonic mitigation projects, PCS inverter analysis, "PV + storage" optimisation, UPS/storage backup integration, or Tier III/IV data centre commissioning

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Trident Recruitment Pte. Ltd. | 25C2668
Samuel Tse | R1223789