Director, Data Center Commissioning & QA/QC

RXinsider LTD.; Abilene (TX); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle seeks a Director of Commissioning QA/QC to lead startup, commissioning, and operational readiness for Abilene AI Data Center projects in Texas. The role focuses on field leadership, coordinating across construction, controls, vendors, and operations, with 60-80% site engagement during turnover and commissioning.

Ideal candidate has 12+ years in commissioning/QA/QC on large-scale infra projects and 5+ years managing teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years' experience leading commissioning, QA/QC, startup, turnover, or operational readiness on large-scale mission-critical or infrastructure projects.
• 5+ years managing people, including commissioning managers, engineers, vendors, and contractors; ability to set priorities, assign work, coach teams, and hold teams accountable across multiple projects, regions and sites.
• Strong knowledge of data center infrastructure including electrical systems, mechanical, controls, life safety, and building automation systems.
• Experience with startup sequencing, integrated testing, functional performance verification, energization planning, and turnover acceptance.
• Ability to assess field readiness, audit installation quality, observe testing, and verify deficiency closure.
• Strong understanding of QA/QC programs, inspection planning, audits, quality reporting, and corrective action management.
• Proven ability to coordinate across construction, vendors, commissioning teams, QA/QC, controls, and operations.
• Strong communication, escalation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-accountability hyperscale delivery environment.
• Willingness to maintain heavy field presence during startup, inspection, commissioning, and turnover phases.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, quality management, facilities management, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead commissioning, QA/QC, startup readiness, and turnover validation across active data center projects.
• Own startup sequencing, integrated testing, energization readiness, and operational handoff coordination.
• Validate installation quality, system readiness, and turnover completeness in the field.
• Lead readiness reviews, QA/QC reviews, startup meetings, and issue-resolution sessions.
• Coordinate between construction, vendors, commissioning agents, QA/QC teams, and operations.
• Identify and escalation startup risks, quality issues, deficiencies, and operational readiness gaps.
• Drive deficiency tracking, closure, corrective actions, and verification before acceptance.
• Support safe and efficient energization planning and execution.
• Monitor startup flow, quality trends, inspection results, retesting, and recurring failures.
• Develop and maintain startup sequencing plans, integrated testing plans, QA/QC audit plans, readiness dashboards, risk reports, and turnover verification reports.
• Improve key performance metrics including startup cycle time, first-pass yield, retest reduction, inspection pass rate, deficiency closure time, rework reduction, and operational acceptance quality.
• Ensure operational handoff packages are complete, accurate, and ready for operations ownership.
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement across commissioning and QA/QC execution.

Skills

Leadership

QA/QC expertise

Project management

Stakeholder management

Field engineering

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Oracle seeks a Director of Commissioning QA/QC to lead startup, commissioning, and operational readiness for Abilene AI Data Center projects in Texas. The role focuses on field leadership, coordinating across construction, controls, vendors, and operations, with 60-80% site engagement during turnover and commissioning.

Ideal candidate has 12+ years in commissioning/QA/QC on large-scale infra projects and 5+ years managing teams.