Director Commissioning QA/QC

• Lead commissioning, QA/QC, startup readiness, and turnover validation across active data center projects

• Own startup sequencing, integrated testing, energization readiness, and operational handoff coordination. 

• Validate installation quality, system readiness, and turnover completeness in the field. 

• Lead readiness reviews, QA/QC reviews, startup meetings, and issue-resolution sessions. 

• Coordinate between construction, controls, vendors, commissioning agents, QA/QC teams, and operations. 

• Identify and escalate startup risks, quality issues, deficiencies, and operational readiness gaps. 

• Drive deficiency tracking, closure, corrective actions, and verification before acceptance. 

• Support safe and efficient energization planning and execution. 

• Monitor startup flow, quality trends, inspection results, retesting, and recurring failures. 

• Develop and maintain startup sequencing plans, integrated testing plans, QA/QC audit plans, readiness dashboards, risk reports, and turnover verification reports. 

• Improve key performance metrics including startup cycle time, first-pass yield, retest reduction, inspection pass rate, deficiency closure time, rework reduction, and operational acceptance quality. 

• Ensure operational handoff packages are complete, accurate, and ready for operations ownership. 

• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement across commissioning and QA/QC execution. 

Qualifications:

• 12+ years’ experience leading commissioning, QA/QC, startup, turnover, or operational readiness on large-scale mission-critical or infrastructure projects. 

• 5+ years managing people, including commissioning managers, engineers, vendors, and contractors; ability to set priorities, assign work, coach teams, and hold teams accountable across multiple projects, regions and sites.  

• Strong knowledge of data center infrastructure including; electrical systems, mechanical, controls, life safety, and building automation systems. 

• Experience with startup sequencing, integrated testing, functional performance verification, energization planning, and turnover acceptance.

• Ability to assess field readiness, audit installation quality, observe testing, and verify deficiency closure. 

• Strong understanding of QA/QC programs, inspection planning, audits, quality reporting, and corrective action management. 

• Proven ability to coordinate across construction, vendors, commissioning teams, QA/QC, controls, and operations. 

• Strong communication, escalation, and stakeholder management skills. 

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-accountability hyperscale delivery environment. 

• Willingness to maintain heavy field presence during startup, inspection, commissioning, and turnover phases. 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, quality management, facilities management, or equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering hyperscale, cloud, AI, colocation, or enterprise data center projects. 

• Experience leading commissioning or QA/QC for major data center campuses or multi-building programs. 

• Knowledge of Level 1–5 commissioning, integrated systems testing, readiness gates, and operational acceptance. 

• Familiarity with medium-voltage and low-voltage electrical systems, generators, UPS, switchgear, EPMS

• BMS, cooling systems, controls, and fire/life safety systems. 

• Experience building QA/QC governance, audit programs, turnover quality standards, dashboards, and corrective action processes. 

• Experience improving startup cycle time, first-pass yield, inspection pass rates, defect recurrence, and operational handoff quality. 

• Certifications such as PMP, CxA, CCP, CQE, CMQ/OE, OSHA 10 or OSHA 30, LEED, or related credentials.

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