Lead Engineer

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Job Description

About the Role:

• Lead and allocate engineering resources across inspections, planned maintenance, corrective work, testing, and day-to-day operational support
• Coordinate contractors and OSE suppliers, including access, scheduling, MOP verification, work monitoring, and return-to-operation checks
• Review MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, permits, and risk assessments to ensure work is completed safely and in line with operational requirements
• Lead troubleshooting, incident response, isolation, recovery, and technical escalation across electrical, mechanical, cooling, fire, and controls systems
• Review work-order completion, maintenance reports, readings, defects, event records, and follow-up actions to maintain engineering quality and reliability
• Maintain engineering standards, critical spares, tools, housekeeping, asset reliability, and site documentation
• Coach engineers and technicians, support competency development, and contribute to training, drills, and succession planning
• Support operational reporting, customer communication, commissioning, mobilisation, and handover activities across the campus

About You:

• 5+ years of experience in data centre or mission-critical facilities engineering
• Relevant qualification or trade licence in electrical, mechanical, building services, or a related engineering discipline
• Demonstrated experience leading maintenance, testing, incidents, and contractor activities in a 24x7 operational environment
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting capability across critical electrical, mechanical, cooling, fire, and controls systems
• Good understanding of MOP, SOP, EOP, permit-to-work, risk assessment, incident management, and change-control processes
• Strong capability in maintenance quality assurance, technical risk assessment, and trend-based fault identification
• Clear reporting, team coordination, coaching, and stakeholder communication skills in both Japanese and English
• Experience supporting commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational handover in a critical environment is advantageous
• Location is in Inzai, Chiba