Senior Commissioning Expert – Data Center (Remote)

Iren Group; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IREN seeks a senior Commissioning Subject Matter Expert to write and own commissioning specifications and criteria across regions. You will be the escalation point for campus teams, review third-party deliverables, and influence engineering and procurement scopes of work.

This program-level role stays with the Director and sets a standard applied at all sites. You will lead testing strategy, training modules, and regional adoption of standards, supporting mobilization of authorities globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Controls or related field.
• 10+ years of data center or mission-critical commissioning, start-up or engineering in the discipline.
• Demonstrated authorship of commissioning specifications, test procedures or standards used across more than one project.
• Deep knowledge of data center electrical systems: medium-voltage distribution, switchgear, transformers and protection, UPS, generators and paralleling, battery energy storage, busway and power distribution.
• Experience reviewing and directing third-party commissioning authorities and equipment vendors.
• Able to travel up to 25% to IREN sites.
• Authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Author and maintain IREN's commissioning specifications for the discipline: Division 1 commissioning specification content, acceptance criteria, Level 1 to Level 5 definitions and integrated systems test requirements, for new build and conversion projects and for both self-performed and general-contractor delivery.
• Act as the technical escalation point for the campus commissioning teams; settle standard-versus-schedule questions with the Cx Project Manager and the Director, and record the decision.
• Review the Commissioning Authority's commissioning plans, test scripts and reports for compliance with the standard; audit field execution, witness sampling and first-of-kind installations across sites.
• Give commissioning input to Engineering on basis of design and specifications, and to Procurement on equipment, factory test requirements and Commissioning Authority scopes of work and request-for-proposal templates.
• Lead the factory witness testing strategy for critical equipment in the discipline and approve factory acceptance test procedures.
• Lead root-cause analysis on significant discipline failures or repeat deficiencies and turn the findings into changes to the standard.
• Own the electrical test and energization standard: pre-energization and foreign-object inspection and release, NETA acceptance testing requirements, protection and relay testing, load-bank and transfer testing, UPS and battery testing, and the sequence from Level 3 start-up to Level 5 integrated systems testing for the power chain.
• Track emerging standards and codes for the regions IREN builds in and update IREN standards accordingly.
• Develop and deliver the discipline's technical training modules with the Training Program Lead; sit on interview panels and mentor the project commissioning leads and IREN's site commissioning crews.
• Support the procurement and mobilization of Commissioning Authorities in new regions so that the IREN standard applies from day one.

Skills

Data center commissioning

Electrical systems knowledge

Project leadership

Standards interpretation

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Controls or related field

Job description

IREN seeks a senior Commissioning Subject Matter Expert to write and own commissioning specifications and criteria across regions. You will be the escalation point for campus teams, review third-party deliverables, and influence engineering and procurement scopes of work.

This program-level role stays with the Director and sets a standard applied at all sites. You will lead testing strategy, training modules, and regional adoption of standards, supporting mobilization of authorities globally.