CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD

Senior Electrical Engineer

Tokyo, Japan Full time

Job Title

Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description Summary

Senior Electrical Engineer provides technical leadership and direction to onsite multi-skilled teams and vendors, specializing in the management of critical high-voltage, self-generation, and power storage systems. This role ensures strict adherence to safety and operational protocols while serving as the primary escalation point for electrical failures to guarantee infrastructure reliability and the achievement of all client KPIs.

Job Description

About the Role:

  • Lead electrical design and construction for new data centers and major upgrades, ensuring all systems meet scope, budget, schedule, and quality benchmarks.
  • Assess land suitability and site acquisitions by evaluating grid availability, utility capacity, redundancy strategies, and potential infrastructure constraints.
  • Oversee the design and scaling of complex MV/LV distribution, UPS systems, and generators to support high-density environments and N+1/2N redundancy requirements.
  • Serve as the primary technical interface between clients, consultants, and contractors to align design intent with execution and project milestones.
  • Collaborate with procurement and operations teams to facilitate seamless tenant onboarding and ensure all technical documentation is met for final handover.

About You:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, Industrial Engineering, or Building Services from an accredited institution.
  • At least 5 years of technical project management experience, specifically within mission-critical or data center environments.
  • Deep knowledge of power distribution, UPS, generators, and redundancy configurations (N, N+1, 2N), including site due diligence and design development.
  • Must hold a Chief Electrical Engineer license or equivalent, with a proven ability to manage contractors according to JIS, IEEE, and local technical standards.

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

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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