Head of AI Factory Commissioning

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Firmus Technologies seeks a Head of Commissioning to build and lead the function responsible for commissioning the physical AI Factory infrastructure across the Asia Pacific region. Set strategy, standards and governance to ensure safe, resilient, and design-ready facilities before compute deployment.

AI Factories range from tens of MW to GW scale; you will lead Commissioning Managers, manage risk, and own the “ready for IT” gate before data halls hand over for cluster bring-up.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering is required.
• 12+ years in mission-critical/data-centre environments with commissioning leadership.
• Proven experience leading commissioning managers across multiple projects.
• Strong knowledge of L1–L5 commissioning and IST for power, cooling and controls.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and scale a high-performing Commissioning team across APAC.
• Define structure, capability and resourcing to support a national and APAC pipeline.
• Set commissioning strategy, levels, IST approach and acceptance criteria.
• Govern commissioning standards, frameworks and templates.
• Own governance, reporting and risk across the portfolio.
• Ensure infrastructure meets safety, reliability and performance before IT handover.
• Lead handover to operations with complete as-built docs and training.
• Engage with Engineering, Delivery, Operations and AI Infrastructure teams.

Skills

Commissioning leadership

Project management

Budget ownership

Stakeholder influence

Safety leadership

IST (Integrated Systems Testing)

Data centre experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering

Job description

Firmus Technologies seeks a Head of Commissioning to build and lead the function responsible for commissioning the physical AI Factory infrastructure across the Asia Pacific region. Set strategy, standards and governance to ensure safe, resilient, and design-ready facilities before compute deployment.

AI Factories range from tens of MW to GW scale; you will lead Commissioning Managers, manage risk, and own the “ready for IT” gate before data halls hand over for cluster bring-up.