Senior Electrical Commissioning Manager

STACK Infrastructure; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

STACK Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Electrical Commissioning Manager for its Melbourne data centre team. You will oversee commissioning of mission-critical equipment, start-up, and testing across projects, ensuring safety and alignment with STACK standards and operational handover.

The role requires leadership across commissioning personnel and external consultants, thorough knowledge of electrical infrastructure, and the ability to manage design interfaces, testing regimes and risk

Qualifications

• Electrical engineering degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in electrical commissioning, factory testing, QA or technical delivery.
• Experience with critical electrical infrastructure (LV/MV switchboards, UPS, generators, protection and controls).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for planning and execution of commissioning activities.
• Manage commissioning activities across projects including interfaces with design, programme and commercial teams.
• Lead and coordinate commissioning personnel allocated to projects.
• Oversee CxA consultants to ensure scope, quality and programme obligations are met.
• Support preparation of CxA RFPs and procurement processes.
• Review commissioning programmes, identify risks, and propose mitigations.
• Develop and approve test scripts including IST and load-bank testing.
• Ensure handover readiness and proper documentation to operations.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Leadership

Commissioning

FAT/SAT testing

Schematics interpretation

Safety & QA

MS Office/Bluebeam/PM software

Education

Degree or trade qualification in electrical engineering

Tools

Microsoft Office

Bluebeam

Project management software

Job description

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) is an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. We provide digital infrastructure that enables the world’s most innovative companies to scale, with facilities that meet or exceed the highest industry standards for availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

As a well-established data center business across APAC, the Americas, and Europe, STACK has successfully built several data centers in Melbourne and continues to expand its project portfolio with the goal of becoming a market leader in the hyperscale data center market.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data, Data runs on STACK.

About the role

The Senior Electrical Commissioning Manager will work as part of the STACK Data Centre Melbourne team and be responsible for the management of commissioning of mission critical equipment, start-up, and testing for projects in Melbourne.

Key responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for the planning and execution of commissioning activities, ensuring systems are delivered safely, in accordance with STACK standards and ready for operational handover.

Manage commissioning activities for assigned projects, including relevant design, contractual, programme and commercial interfaces, in consultation with STACK management.

Lead and coordinate STACK commissioning personnel allocated to assigned projects.

Manage and oversee Commissioning Agent (CxA) consultants for assigned projects, ensuring scope, deliverables, quality and programme obligations are achieved.

Support the preparation of CxA RFP documentation and participate in the procurement, evaluation and appointment of CxA consultants.

Work with the GC, CxA and STACK stakeholders to review commissioning programmes, identify risks and constraints, and recommend recovery or mitigation actions where required.

Support the development, review and approval of equipment, system, Level 4 and Level 5 test scripts, including integrated systems testing and load-bank testing activities.

Review CxA documentation and reports, including design reviews, load-bank plans, IST intent and methodology, interim reports and final commissioning reports.

Conduct commissioning-focused design reviews with STACK Engineering to confirm that systems are testable, safe, operable, maintainable and capable of meeting the required operational outcome.

Liaise with Operations to understand handover requirements and ensure operational readiness, documentation, training and outstanding defects are appropriately managed.

About you

Degree or trade qualification in electrical engineering or related discipline; equivalent experience considered.

Demonstrated leadership experience coordinating commissioning, technical assurance, factory testing or quality activities across projects, suppliers or technical teams.

3–5 years' experience in electrical commissioning, factory testing, quality assurance or technical delivery within a mission-critical, industrial or regulated environment.

Experience with critical electrical infrastructure, including LV/MV switchboards, modular switch rooms, PDUs, UPS, generators, ATS/STS, protection and controls systems.

Experience managing or witnessing FATs, SATs, functional testing, defect close-out and supplier corrective actions.

Ability to interpret single-line diagrams, schematics, protection settings, ITPs, test procedures and technical specifications.

Sound knowledge of electrical safety, switching, test planning, commissioning risk management and quality‑assurance practices.

Experience using commissioning management, quality or document‑control systems.

Strong communication and reporting skills, with the ability to work across suppliers, engineering, construction, commissioning and operations teams.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Bluebeam and project‑management software.

Equal Opportunity Employer

STACK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.