Commissioning Manager

Estimated from 3 comparable listings

• Own the commissioning strategy, governance and standards across projects, ensuring alignment to ASHRAE, NETA ATS, applicable codes, and client/contract requirements.
• Ensure quality, safety and compliance throughout commissioning activities, including adherence to project H&S requirements and change control.
• Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned, standardising best practice, and improving commissioning processes, templates and tools.
• Manage the integrated commissioning programme (design review through handover), including milestones, resourcing, dependencies and interfaces with construction and project controls.
• Deliver IST planning and execution oversight, ensuring integrated systems performance meets required outcomes and resilience objectives.
• Own stakeholder reporting and governance rhythms (weekly/monthly), providing clear status, risks, mitigations and decisions required.
• Lead commissioning input into bid and pre-construction planning, owning scope, assumptions, risks and deliverables for each opportunity.
• Own commissioning design reviews and readiness, ensuring systems are commissionable, maintainable and aligned to operational requirements.
• Support management and coordination of contractor and vendor commissioning teams, holding them accountable for method statements, ITPs, test documentation, safe systems of work and schedule adherence.
• Manage and coordinate CxA, holding them accountable for all deliverables as defined in the Cx Playbook.
• Deliver the commissioning test framework and documentation set, including L1–L5 test scripts, L6 checklists, test records, and commissioning dossiers for client acceptance.
• Lead and witness FAT and SAT activities, manage defects/punch lists, and drive closure to achieve acceptance criteria.
• Manage engagement with Operations to ensure handover readiness, including training needs, O&M documentation completeness, and smooth transition to live operations.
• Lead and/or support operational programmes, platforms, and workstreams as directed by Senior Management.
• Provide technical input to initiatives aimed at improving system resilience, availability, and fault tolerance.

• Significant technical experience in Data Centres with a Mechanical/Electrical building services background
• Excellent technical knowledge of international design codes and standards in particular ASHRAE
• A desire to set the sustainability agenda through design engineering
• A thorough understanding of the construction process from pre-construction/tender stages through to handover
• The ability to challenge the status quo
• Good interpersonal and team building skills
• Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills
• Working knowledge of building management systems and controls
• Excellent IT skills (MS Office, MS Project, a good understanding of CAD (AutoCAD, AutoDESK, REVIT and other 3D modelling software) would be an advantage but not essential.)
• Ideally a master’s degree in mechanical/electrical engineering or several years equivalent experience.
• Experience of systems commissioning
• Experience in Data centres from Colo to Hyperscale.
• Experience of reviewing the design from a commissionable perspective for datacentres, pharmaceutical facilities, hospitals and large distribution centres/warehouses or other similar projects – Desirable
• Reviewing Factory tests method statements, attending and controlling Factory tests.
• Professional membership of an appropriate professional body – Highly desirable
• Remote working/working from home
• Experience of working within a matrix organisation.
• Driving licence
• Occasional international travel