Structural Engineer

Structural Technical Lead – Data Centres

📍 Location: Singapore

⚡ Take the structural technical lead on major mission-critical data centre developments, working across buildings, substations, electrical yards, mechanical yards and wider campus infrastructure.

This is a senior technical assurance role for a structural engineer who can challenge designs, spot risk early and give clear direction to consultants and contractors — not simply produce calculations.

About the role

You’ll act as a key structural engineering authority across the project lifecycle, reviewing and assuring designs for complex data centre infrastructure.

The focus is on technical assurance, multidisciplinary coordination, constructability, resilience and design optimisation , ensuring structural solutions meet client standards while supporting programme, cost and operational performance.

Key responsibilities

• Review structural designs, calculations, specifications, drawings, BIM models and technical reports.
• Provide assurance across reinforced concrete, structural steel, foundations, slabs, frames and equipment support structures.
• Assess equipment loads, vibration, seismic requirements and structural interfaces with specialist systems.
• Lead structural coordination with architectural, civil, mechanical and electrical disciplines.
• Identify design clashes, constructability issues and technical risks before they impact programme or cost.
• Challenge consultants and contractors and provide clear technical direction during design reviews and coordination meetings.
• Drive design optimisation around material efficiency, buildability, resilience, sustainability and long-term operation.
• Support site observations, defect resolution, punch-list close-out and final inspections.
• Maintain structural risk, action and issue trackers and report critical items to programme and technical leadership.
• Contribute to improvements in owner standards, specifications and technical guidance.

Requirements

• Strong structural engineering background on complex building or infrastructure projects.
• Excellent knowledge of structural steel, reinforced concrete, foundations and structural framing systems .
• Proven experience reviewing and technically assuring structural designs produced by consultants or contractors.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary interfaces across structural, civil, architectural, mechanical and electrical packages.
• Able to interrogate designs from a constructability, cost, programme, durability and resilience perspective.
• Comfortable providing technical challenge and direction to senior consultants, contractors and project stakeholders.

Desirable background

Experience within data centres or other mission-critical / highly serviced environments would be particularly valuable.

Relevant transferable sectors could include:

• Hyperscale or colocation data centres
• Semiconductor / advanced manufacturing
• Pharmaceutical or life sciences facilities
• Energy and power infrastructure
• Major industrial developments
• Airports or technically complex infrastructure programmes

Experience with BIM360, Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), 3Dx or similar cloud-based design review environments would also be useful.

Best-Fit Candidates / Useful Matching Context

Likely backgrounds include senior structural engineers currently working for major engineering consultancies, data centre design specialists, EPC contractors, general contractors or client-side technical teams .

Relevant alternative titles could include:

Lead Structural Engineer | Principal Structural Engineer | Structural Design Lead | Structural Technical Manager | Structural Engineering Lead | Structural SME | Structural Design Manager

Candidates with strong mission-critical experience who have moved from detailed design into design management, technical assurance or client-side review roles should also be considered.

This vacancy is open to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents only. Employment-pass sponsorship is not available.