Remote Director of Commissioning - Data Center Infra Leader

5C Group; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

5C Data Centers seeks a Director of Commissioning to lead the field commissioning function for hyperscale facilities across North America. You will set standards, establish readiness requirements and oversee testing and system performance.

This hands-on leader will develop governance from design to handover, build coverage plans with direct hires and trusted partners, coach teams, and ensure clear acceptance criteria and risk-based testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, Construction Management or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressive commissioning experience, including leadership across complex projects and distributed sites.
• Experience delivering commissioning across data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similar infrastructure.
• Ability to create and implement practical processes, conduct field assurance, and scale teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish portfolio commissioning standards, roles, responsibilities, script requirements, acceptance criteria, and escalation paths.
• Oversee priority commissioning activities while developing reusable procedures, templates, tools, and a risk-based roadmap.
• Develop resource triggers based on concurrent sites, complexity, test duration, geographic spread, and specialist requirements.
• Recruit approved hires and manage third-party commissioning providers with clear competency, authority, deliverables, and performance expectations.
• Review commissioning plans, staffing, test procedures, equipment startup responsibilities, and readiness criteria; require deficiencies be corrected before testing proceeds.
• Partner with Engineering and Pre-Construction to review commissioning implications of design, sequences, controls, maintainability, and testability.
• Embed commissioning requirements into design reviews, procurement packages, and project plans.
• Evaluate commissioning providers and contractor capability, mission-critical experience, staffing and methodology.
• Establish system turnover and commissioning-readiness criteria with Operations, including documentation and safety.
• Own the portfolio methodology for functional performance testing and integrated systems testing; witness critical tests and ensure objective evidence supports acceptance.
• Establish risk-based deficiency classification, ownership, due dates, escalation, and closure verification.

Skills

Education & comms

Leadership

Delivery experience

Program building

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, Construction Management or related discipline

Job description

5C Data Centers seeks a Director of Commissioning to lead the field commissioning function for hyperscale facilities across North America. You will set standards, establish readiness requirements and oversee testing and system performance.

This hands-on leader will develop governance from design to handover, build coverage plans with direct hires and trusted partners, coach teams, and ensure clear acceptance criteria and risk-based testing.