Senior Engineer, Project Delivery, Japan

Who we are:

Digital Edge is a trusted and forward-looking data center platform company, established to transform digital infrastructure in Asia. Backed by Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, Digital Edge has in excess of US$1 billion in committed capital.

Our mission is to bridge the digital divide across Asia Pacific by building the sustainable digital ecosystems of the future. Through building and operating state-of-the-art, energy efficient data centers rich with connectivity options, we bring new colocation and interconnect options to the Asian market, making digital infrastructure deployment in the region easy, efficient and economical.

Founded in 2020 the company has grown rapidly across multiple markets in the region and currently provides data center and fiber services across China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.

This role is an exciting opportunity to join our fast-growing team as we further expand our footprint across Asia.

Our values:

• Responsibility: We take ownership of our actions and outcomes.
• Innovation: We embrace change and create bold solutions.  
• Strive: We show grit, resilience and relentless drive.
• Excellence: We pursue the highest standards in all we do.   
• Respect: We act with integrity and treat others with dignity.

What we need:

The Senior Engineer Project Delivery will support the Associate Director, Construction Japan in overseeing the successful planning, mobilization, execution, and handover of data centre projects in Japan

This role is supporting country project teams to drive consistency, governance, execution excellence, and risk management across multiple projects and locations. The Manger will work closely with in-country delivery teams and platform functions including Design Delivery, Commercial, Procurement, Project Controls, EHS, QA/QC, and Testing & Commissioning to ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in line with Digital Edge standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Local Construction Leadership

• Support the Associate Director, construction Japan in overseeing construction delivery across multiple projects in local portfolio.
• Act as a construction leader across assigned projects, ensuring alignment on execution strategy, governance, reporting, and delivery expectations.
• Drive in-country construction teams, consistency in project execution and decision-making.
• Report to Associate Director construction Japan where required for project, market, or stakeholder matters on time.

Project Oversight & Delivery Support

• Lead local project and construction from pre-construction through commissioning and handover.

• Collaborate with the internal teams, consultant team, GCs, subcontractors, and other specialists to ensure the projects are delivered as their defined scope and as per contract for suppliers.

• Maintain accountability for project performance across schedule, cost, quality, safety, and readiness-for-service milestones in detail.
• Identify key project risks, constraints, and delivery gaps early, and work with teams to implement mitigation and recovery actions.
• Establish resolution of major site, contractor, authority, and interface issues that may affect delivery outcomes.
• Ensure all project deliverables are stored correctly onto the designated project folders as per in-house process.
• This role may require extended travel and/or temporary on-site assignment at project locations depending on project requirements and construction phases

Pre-Construction, Planning & Mobilization

• Support project teams in construction planning, tender readiness, execution strategy, site mobilization planning, and overall delivery setup.
• Review construction methodologies, phasing plans, temporary works strategy, logistics, and site readiness to improve execution certainty.
• Ensure construction considerations are appropriately embedded into design, procurement, contracting, and project planning decisions.
• Schedule, Controls & Execution Governance.
• Work with project teams and project controls to review master schedules, critical path items, recovery plans, and key dependencies.
• Support schedule governance through regular performance reviews, risk reviews, and escalation of key issues to leadership.
• Promote disciplined execution controls across progress reporting, change management, look-ahead planning, and milestone tracking.

Contractor, Procurement & Commercial Coordination

• Support country teams and platform functions in evaluating construction packaging, contracting approach, and procurement readiness.
• Provide construction input into procurement strategy, bid review, contractor selection, and execution planning.
• Work closely with Commercial and Procurement teams to ensure contractor and vendor strategies support project objectives and market conditions.
• Monitor contractor performance, commercial exposure, and execution risks from a construction delivery perspective.
• Ensure audit compliance of commercial & contractual documentation in compliance with established governance.
• Construction Quality, Safety & Standards
• Reinforce Digital Edge’s expectations on HSE, QA/QC, site governance, and construction best practice across all assigned projects.
• Ensure lessons learned, common standards, and repeatable processes are shared and applied across markets.
• Lead project teams in addressing key quality, safety, and workmanship issues, including high-risk construction activities and critical installations.
• Promote a culture of proactive issue resolution, accountability, and execution excellence.

Testing, Commissioning & Handover Support

• Coordinate closely with Testing & Commissioning teams to ensure construction completion, system readiness, and interface management are well coordinated.

• Ensure alignment across civil, MEP, IT, vendor, and commissioning interfaces.

• Support project teams in driving timely completion of construction works to enable integrated testing, commissioning, and customer handover.
• Help ensure projects are delivered in line with technical requirements, contractual obligations, and RFS commitments.
• Coordinate and manage project close out processes.

Team Development & Stakeholder Management

• Help define roles, responsibilities, and resource needs across country delivery teams as project volume grows.
• Support to build strong working relationships with country leadership, platform stakeholders, contractors, consultants, JV partners, local authorities, and customers as needed.

Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
• Typically, 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale construction projects, preferably data centres, mission-critical facilities, industrial, or major infrastructure developments.
• Strong track record in construction delivery leadership across multiple projects, teams, or geographies.
• Strong understanding of project controls, construction planning, schedule recovery, contractor management, and execution governance.
• Familiarity with procurement and commercial interfaces relevant to major construction delivery.
• Strong knowledge of HSE, QA/QC, construction risk management, and testing / commissioning interfaces.
• Experience working in complex stakeholder environments, including platform teams, local delivery teams, consultants, contractors, and external partners.
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving capability.
• PMP or equivalent project management credential is advantageous.
• Business-level Japanese, including technical terminology, together with a good command of English