Global Commissioning & Handover Director — Hyperscale DCs

Volta; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 320,000 - 344,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Volta

Retirement/pension contributions

Health benefits

Job summary

Volta is seeking a Senior Director, Global Commissioning & Handover to lead commissioning of DSX facilities and network across Volta's sites, ensuring readiness for service and smooth handover to operations. You will build a global Commissioning and Handover team, own discipline standards, and align turn-up sequences to accelerate time-to-service.

You will travel across Europe and North America, manage commissioning schedules, security requirements, and governance for operational readiness, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading commissioning of hyperscale data centres, including electrical, mechanical and liquid cooling systems.
• Track record owning commissioning and handover across multiple concurrent sites at this level.
• Deep knowledge of commissioning levels, integrated systems testing and the turn-up sequence for high-density GPU environments.
• Experience with CDU and liquid cooling commissioning and handover into operations.
• Experience setting readiness governance and handing live facilities over to operations teams.
• Experience building and leading commissioning teams and managing commissioning agents and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Lead commissioning of DSX facilities and network infrastructure across Volta's AI factories, taking each site to ready for service.
• Build and lead the global Commissioning and Handover team, covering electrical, mechanical and CDU commissioning standards, systems security, commissioning planning, facilities readiness and operational readiness.
• Own Volta's commissioning standards for each discipline, from tagging and method statements through each commissioning level to the turn-up sequence.
• Own CDU installation and commissioning standards, including handover to operations.
• Own the commissioning schedule for every site and its alignment to turn-up, so that commissioning is never the critical path to service.
• Deliver the physical and systems security requirements for each site from construction through to handover.
• Set the facilities readiness and operational readiness standards and governance, so each facility is ready for operations and the operations team is ready to run it.
• Lead handover into service, working with DC Operations on acceptance, documentation and training.
• Work with Design and Engineering, the regional delivery teams and the DSX execution and network teams so commissioning is integrated into the master schedule on every site.
• Report commissioning progress and risk across sites, and feed lessons learned back into the standards and the reference design.

Skills

Hyperscale DC commissioning

Electrical commissioning

Mechanical commissioning

CDU commissioning

Security integration

Job description

Volta is seeking a Senior Director, Global Commissioning & Handover to lead commissioning of DSX facilities and network across Volta's sites, ensuring readiness for service and smooth handover to operations. You will build a global Commissioning and Handover team, own discipline standards, and align turn-up sequences to accelerate time-to-service.

You will travel across Europe and North America, manage commissioning schedules, security requirements, and governance for operational readiness, and