Project Manager - Commissioning (Data Centre)

Turner & Townsend; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 600,000,000 - 900,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Commissioning Manager to plan, lead and manage commissioning activities for complex projects, ensuring safety, quality and regulatory compliance. The role bridges engineering, construction and operations, driving turn‑key handover and operational readiness while mitigating risks, delays and rework on large-scale data center and infrastructure programs.

Early involvement is required to support systemization, operability reviews, interface management and risk

Qualifications

• Experience as Commissioning Manager/Lead on data center projects.
• Proven ability to lead commissioning teams on large-scale projects.
• Strong knowledge of commissioning methodologies, turnover processes and handover to operations.
• Solid HSSE awareness, risk assessment and safe work practices during commissioning and start-up.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage commissioning activities.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards.
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders.
• Lead system testing and performance validation.
• Manage commissioning resources and contractors.
• Identify and mitigate commissioning risks.
• Support handover and operational readiness.

Skills

Commissioning leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Team leadership

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

The purpose of the Commissioning Manager position is to plan, lead, and manage all commissioning activities to ensure that systems, equipment, and facilities are installed, tested, and operated safely, reliably, and in full compliance with project specifications, contractual requirements, and regulatory standards.

This role provides critical contribution by bridging Engineering, Construction, and Operations, ensuring a smooth transition from project execution to operational readiness, minimizing technical risks, delays, and rework, and ultimately supporting timely project handover and operational excellence.

Early involvement at this stage is required to support systemization, commissioning planning, constructability and operability reviews, interface management, and risk mitigation activities, ensuring commissioning readiness and alignment with the project schedule.

• Plan and manage commissioning activities
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders
• Lead system testing and performance validation
• Manage commissioning resources and contractors
• Identify and mitigate commissioning risks
• Support handover and operational readiness

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Commissioning Manager or Commissioning Lead / Supervisor on DATA CENTER projects.
• Significant exposure to pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up activities.
• Proven experience leading commissioning teams on large-scale industrial, oil & gas, power, or infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of commissioning methodologies, systemization, turnover processes, and handover to operations.
• Solid understanding of HSSE requirements, risk assessments, and safe work practices during commissioning and start-up.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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