Manager, Comissioning & Coordination

STACK Infrastructure; Santa Teresa (NM); On-site; USD 133,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K program

Cell phone subsidy

Job summary

STACK Infrastructure is seeking a Coordination and Commissioning Manager to lead validation and commissioning of data centers, ensuring safety, quality, and client readiness. You will drive improvements, develop testing scripts, and coordinate with cross-functional teams across projects to deliver world-class facilities.

Ideal candidates bring data center experience, a technical degree or equivalent, and strong project management skills, with PMP and Cx certification highly valued.

Qualifications

• Data center experience required.
• Significant prior experience (5+ years) of critical facility construction, commissioning, and operation.
• Substantial project management experience preferred with PMP and Cx certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead validation of STACK data centers to ensure high quality and client readiness.
• Enforce the commissioning process and drive continuous improvement to reduce schedule and cost.
• Collaborate with project managers to develop commissioning plans.
• Develop acceptance tests and IST scripts through completion of Integrated Systems Testing.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to deliver data centers.
• Lead project closeout with GC, architects, and engineers.
• Standardize processes for Ready For Service readiness.
• Travel domestically 15–25% as needed.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline or applicable experience

Job description

THE COMPANY:

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

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

THE POSITION:

As the Coordination and Commissioning Manager, you will lead the validation of STACK data centers to function with excellent quality and delivered to optimize client experience.

• Act as a safety Leader while empowering a culture of safety, security, and compliance in all aspects of data center commissioning.
• Enforce the commissioning process and create a culture for continuous improvement. Drive improvements into the commissioning program to deliver higher safety and quality while reducing schedule and cost.
• Collaborate with project managers to develop individual commissioning plans.
• Develop acceptance tests and commissioning scripts through completion of Integrated Systems Testing (IST).
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams such as Development and Critical Operations to deliver data centers.
• Working with the general contractor, architect, and engineers to lead the project closeout process.
• Establish commissioning, integration, and closeout lessons learned. Ensure lessons learned are incorporated into STACK’s Basis of Design for future projects.
• Lead and collaborate with a cross-functional team of experts from Environmental Health and Safety, Strategy, Development, Critical Operations, Technical Operations, Information Technology, Physical Security, Finance and Accounting to transform a facility under construction to a fully Ready For Service (RFS), Client Ready world class data center.
• Develop, standardize, optimize and automate the processes to support successful RFS.
• Develop and review design standards, specs, and create operations procedures for consistency and maximum system reliability.
• Validate data center infrastructure asset information, ensure proper recording and provide to Critical Operations.
• Support on an as-needed basis to Critical Operations emergencies.
• Travel domestically in support of engineering initiatives, system assessments, startup testing, commissioning, and turnover to Critical Operations as required.

The Details

• Location:
• Travel: Domestic travel required 15-25%.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States
• Must pass a comprehensive background screening

Preferred Education and Experience

• Data center experience required
• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline or applicable experience
• Significant prior experience (5+ years) of critical facility construction, commissioning, and operation.
• Ability to handle a multitude of tasks and work well in stressful situations.
• Significant prior experience (5+ years) of solving complex critical technical and procedural issues.
• Substantial project management experience preferred with PMP and Cx certification.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Compensation Range:

$133,000.00 - $154,000.00

THIS MIGHT BE RIGHT FOR YOU IF:

• You are a strong communicator, you are persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making.
• You do not get flustered easily. You can juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
• You are a team builder. You take the time to understand and develop the strengths of your resources while formulating long-term plans for the growth and success of the team.
• You are naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement. While you celebrate your successes, you take time to review and analyze campaigns for future learning.

WHY STACK?

• We offer a competitive compensation package with strong benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, flexible spending accounts - even a cell phone subsidy.
• We foster a culture of appreciation, including peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
• Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
• We’re growing - this is a great time to join and make an impact!

STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law