Principal Data Center Commissioning Engineer

Oracle Corporation; Abilene (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Oracle Corporation's OCI division seeks a Principal Data Center Commissioning Engineer to drive commissioning across hyperscale AI data center projects in the Greater Abilene, TX area. You will coordinate with contractors, vendors, and cross-functional teams to ensure safe, on-time delivery and alignment with business goals.

The role emphasizes field leadership, rigorous safety standards, and proactive issue resolution, with relocation support and potential travel up to 50% for qualified

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale, complex projects.
• Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure, semiconductor, power, or other technical construction environments.
• Knowledge of construction sequencing, field coordination, manpower tracking, productivity monitoring, and milestone execution.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, look-ahead plans, and turnover documentation.
• Proven ability to identify field risks, resolve construction issues, and escalate effectively.
• Strong understanding of safety expectations, quality standards, punch-list management, and turnover readiness.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise updates.
• Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 85% field/site engagement.
• Strong ownership mindset, urgency, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced construction environment.

Responsibilities

• Support daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.
• Work closely with general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.
• Monitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and workface readiness.
• Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, milestones, logistics plans, and turnover priorities.
• Identify and help resolve field issues, trade conflicts, congestion risks, and execution constraints.
• Reinforce onsite safety expectations through visible field presence.
• Support installation quality verification and help reduce rework.
• Partner with QA/QC, commissioning, controls, logistics, safety, and operations teams.
• Track punch-list items, turnover readiness, and startup support requirements.
• Provide accurate daily field reports, progress updates, issue logs, and milestone updates.
• Support recovery plans when schedule, quality, productivity, or coordination issues arise.
• Support Construction Managers in promoting consistent field execution practices.
• Maintain continuous site awareness through regular field walks and direct contractor engagement.

Skills

On-site coordination

Safety compliance

Stakeholder communication

Field issue resolution

Tools

Primavera P6

Oracle Primavera Cloud

MS Project

Power BI

Tableau

Smartsheet

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Data Center Commissioning Engineer to support commissioning across multiple data center projects for hyperscale AI data center commissioning in the Greater Abilene, Texas Area.

In this role, you will help ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with business goals, industry standards, and operational reliability requirements. You will work closely with stakeholders, suppliers, contractors, engineering teams, and cross-functional partners to communicate expectations, track progress, resolve issues, and support successful project completion.

You will also monitor key performance indicators during systems testing, identify trends or anomalies, contribute to technical documentation, and help ensure quality and safety standards are followed throughout the project lifecycle.

This position is based in Greater Abilene area (Shackelford County, Texas) approximately 20 miles from Abilene. We are open to local to the area or open to relocate to Abilene. Oracle offers competitive relocation packages for eligible candidates. We will also consider candidates from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area who are open to travel over 50%.

Internal Responsibilities

• Support daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.

• Work closely with general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.
• Monitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and workface readiness.
• Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, milestones, logistics plans, and turnover priorities.
• Identify and help resolve field issues, trade conflicts, congestion risks, and execution constraints.
• Reinforce onsite safety expectations through visible field presence.
• Support installation quality verification and help reduce rework.
• Partner with QA/QC, commissioning, controls, logistics, safety, and operations teams.
• Track punch-list items, turnover readiness, and startup support requirements.
• Provide accurate daily field reports, progress updates, issue logs, and milestone updates.
• Support recovery plans when schedule, quality, productivity, or coordination issues arise.
• Support Construction Managers in promoting consistent field execution practices.

• Maintain continuous site awareness through regular field walks and direct contractor engagement.

  Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale, complex projects.
• Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure, semiconductor, power, or other technical construction environments.
• Knowledge of construction sequencing, field coordination, manpower tracking, productivity monitoring, and milestone execution.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, look-ahead plans, and turnover documentation.
• Proven ability to identify field risks, resolve construction issues, and **escalate effectively.**
• Strong understanding of safety expectations, quality standards, punch-list management, and turnover readiness.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise updates.
• Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 85% field/site engagement.
• Strong ownership mindset, urgency, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced construction environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting hyperscale data center construction projects.
• Experience in an owner’s representative, construction management, EPC, or general contractor environment.
• Familiarity with data center systems, including electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, network, or commissioning-related scopes.
• Experience supporting or coaching Construction Managers, field engineers, coordinators, or discipline-specific construction teams.
• Experience supporting fast-track construction, phased turnover, commissioning-driven delivery, or recovery execution.
• Familiarity with construction reporting tools, scheduling platforms, document control systems, and issue tracking processes such as Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.

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External Responsibilities

• Support daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.

• Work closely with general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.
• Monitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and workface readiness.
• Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, milestones, logistics plans, and turnover priorities.
• Identify and help resolve field issues, trade conflicts, congestion risks, and execution constraints.
• Reinforce onsite safety expectations through visible field presence.
• Support installation quality verification and help reduce rework.
• Partner with QA/QC, commissioning, controls, logistics, safety, and operations teams.
• Track punch-list items, turnover readiness, and startup support requirements.
• Provide accurate daily field reports, progress updates, issue logs, and milestone updates.
• Support recovery plans when schedule, quality, productivity, or coordination issues arise.
• Support Construction Managers in promoting consistent field execution practices.

• Maintain continuous site awareness through regular field walks and direct contractor engagement.

  Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale, complex projects.
• Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure, semiconductor, power, or other technical construction environments.
• Knowledge of construction sequencing, field coordination, manpower tracking, productivity monitoring, and milestone execution.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, look-ahead plans, and turnover documentation.
• Proven ability to identify field risks, resolve construction issues, and **escalate effectively.**
• Strong understanding of safety expectations, quality standards, punch-list management, and turnover readiness.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise updates.
• Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 85% field/site engagement.
• Strong ownership mindset, urgency, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced construction environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting hyperscale data center construction projects.
• Experience in an owner’s representative, construction management, EPC, or general contractor environment.
• Familiarity with data center systems, including electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, network, or commissioning-related scopes.
• Experience supporting or coaching Construction Managers, field engineers, coordinators, or discipline-specific construction teams.
• Experience supporting fast-track construction, phased turnover, commissioning-driven delivery, or recovery execution.
• Familiarity with construction reporting tools, scheduling platforms, document control systems, and issue tracking processes such as Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.

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