Commissioning - Engineer - Dry Mechanical SME

FusionIRX; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

FusionIRX is seeking an experienced Dry Mechanical Commissioning Subject Matter Expert for a large-scale technology fabrication project in Boise, Idaho. The role requires a minimum of 5 years in facility systems and commissioning across complex environments.

The SME will guide installation verification, pre-functional testing, startup, and turnover, coordinating with owners, engineers, and contractors to ensure systems meet performance criteria and turnover packages are complete and ready for

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in facility systems, construction, startup, commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, and turnover.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical Commissioning Subject Matter Expert through startup, commissioning, testing, turnover, and final acceptance.
• Review design documents, specifications, drawings, equipment schedules, control diagrams, sequences of operation, submittals, RFIs, and commissioning requirements.
• Review and provide technical input on commissioning plans, checklists, procedures, test scripts, acceptance criteria, startup documentation, and turnover packages.
• Coordinate with Construction Management, Engineering, Quality, Controls, Electrical, Life Safety, Operations, Process, and other commissioning disciplines.
• Verify proper installation, startup, operation, balancing, controls integration, alarming, trending, interlocks, and overall system performance.
• Identify performance issues, controls problems, and operational issues and drive through resolution.
• Review corrective-action plans and verify deficiencies are properly corrected and retested prior to acceptance.
• Participate in FATs, SATs, equipment startup, and vendor testing when required.
• Maintain accurate commissioning documentation and support development of issue logs, deficiency reports, testing records, dashboards, turnover records, and final commissioning packages.
• Communicate significant technical risks, schedule impacts, system deficiencies, and readiness concerns clearly to project leadership.
• Provide technical guidance to less-experienced commissioning personnel.
• Support effective collaboration among Owner teams, engineering firms, CM/GC partners, subcontractors, controls contractors, equipment manufacturers, vendors, and commissioning personnel.
• Represent the project professionally in technical meetings, field coordination discussions, commissioning meetings, and issue-resolution sessions.

Skills

Dry commissioning

Facility startup

Testing & troubleshooting

Leadership

Job description

FusionIRX is seeking an experienced Dry Mechanical Commissioning Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide technical and commissioning expertise on a large-scale technology fabrication project in Boise, Idaho.

This experienced candidate shall bring a minimum of 5 years of experience in facility systems, construction, startup, commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, and turnover, preferably within semiconductor fabrication, advanced manufacturing, mission-critical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or similarly complex technical environments.

The SME will serve as a trusted technical authority responsible for providing guidance throughout installation verification, pre-functional testing, startup, controls verification, functional performance testing, integrated system testing, deficiency resolution, turnover, and final acceptance of the facility systems.

The SME will work alongside highly experienced Owner representatives, engineers, construction professionals, commissioning leaders, contractors, vendors, controls specialists, and other discipline SMEs. The successful individual must possess not only exceptional technical expertise, but also the leadership maturity, professional credibility, ethics, integrity, and judgment necessary to work effectively alongside other highly respected industry leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical Commissioning Subject Matter Expert through startup, commissioning, testing, turnover, and final acceptance.
• Review design documents, specifications, drawings, equipment schedules, control diagrams, sequences of operation, submittals, RFIs, and commissioning requirements.
• Review and provide technical input on commissioning plans, checklists, procedures, test scripts, acceptance criteria, startup documentation, and turnover packages.
• Coordinate with Construction Management, Engineering, Quality, Controls, Electrical, Life Safety, Operations, Process, and other commissioning disciplines.
• Verify proper installation, startup, operation, balancing, controls integration, alarming, trending, interlocks, and overall system performance.
• Identify performance issues, controls problems, and operational issues and drive through resolution.
• Review corrective-action plans and verify deficiencies are properly corrected and retested prior to acceptance.
• Participate in Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), Site Acceptance Tests (SATs), equipment startup, and vendor testing when required.
• Maintain accurate commissioning documentation and support development of issue logs, deficiency reports, testing records, dashboards, turnover records, and final commissioning packages.
• Communicate significant technical risks, schedule impacts, system deficiencies, and readiness concerns clearly to project leadership.
• Provide technical guidance to less-experienced commissioning personnel.
• Support effective collaboration among Owner teams, engineering firms, CM/GC partners, subcontractors, controls contractors, equipment manufacturers, vendors, and commissioning personnel.
• Represent the project professionally in technical meetings, field coordination discussions, commissioning meetings, and issue-resolution sessions.