Associate Principal – SIT Business Leader

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of advisors and experts working across 34 countries with over 19,000 employees. Headquartered in London, providing design engineering, architecture, planning, and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

The Opportunity

Based in Bangkok, your focus will be to lead the design, coordination, and delivery of complex, mission-critical data centre projects in Thailand and work closely with our regional leaders in the Asia Pacific and Australia. You will work at the intersection of technical leadership, project delivery, and client engagement, collaborating with global data centre providers, developers, architects, contractors, and Arup’s multidisciplinary teams.  

Your role will be instrumental in strengthening Arup’s leadership position in the data centre sector in Thailand, SEA and the wider APAC region, ensuring project success through technical excellence, stakeholder alignment, and scalable engineering solutions.

Your role in our team

• Serve as Principal-in-Charge (PIC) or Project Director for high-risk, high-profile data centre projects.
• Lead the design, coordination, and technical delivery of hyperscale and colocation facilities.
• Be able to demonstrate technical excellence in electrical or mechanical engineering with proven track record
• Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight of complex engineering systems across all project phases: from master planning and concept design through to detailed design and client-side technical support during construction.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with data centre clients, including hyperscale operators and colocation developers.
• Lead and support business development activities for data centre opportunities.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

• Significant experience in engineering consultancy, including 5–10 years in the delivery of data centres or similarly complex, high-resilience infrastructure.
• Recognised tertiary qualifications in Electrical, Mechanical or Building Services Engineering. Chartered/Registered Professional Engineer in Thailand (or eligible).
• Deep knowledge and experience in mission-critical MEP design, including M&E distribution, standby systems, and fault-tolerant design approaches.
• Strong track record leading multidisciplinary teams in delivering large-scale, technically complex projects.
• Demonstrated success in client engagement, team leadership, and project delivery
• Proven leadership skills to inspire and manage diverse technical teams.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to manage project performance and negotiate effectively. #LI-PM2  DC2025

What We Offer You  

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.  

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities.

Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts. We also provide medical insurance, life assurance, Accident insurance. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits varied across different locations to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.  

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at Your life at Arup - Arup

We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. Please contact Psalm Manuel at psalm.manuel@arup.com to let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application or interview process, and/or to perform the essential functions of the role. We will do everything we can to support you.

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