Senior Data Center Commissioning Lead (Onsite)

Iris Energy; Sweetwater (TX); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

IREN is seeking a seasoned Commissioning Project Manager to lead campus commissioning from contract input through Level 5 testing and turnover to Operations. You will direct the CxA vendor, manage schedules and budgets, and coordinate with Construction, Operations and customer tech leads on a multi-building data center campus.

Role requires on-site presence at Sweetwater/Childress, Texas, with travel between sites; OSHA NFPA 70E awareness and strong MS Project/Primavera skills are essential for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of data center or mission-critical commissioning, including full Level 1 to Level 5 delivery on at least two projects.
• Demonstrated management of a third-party Commissioning Authority as a vendor, including specification, procurement, contract, performance and change management.
• Working knowledge of medium-voltage distribution, UPS, generators, chilled-water and liquid-cooling plant, and BMS/EPMS integration.
• Experience leading a team on site (direct reports or a matrixed project team); able to run readiness gates and hold contractors and the Commissioning Authority to acceptance criteria.
• Project-management ownership of a commissioning scope: schedule, budget, change control and vendor contracts; able to plan the early cluster stand-up with Construction, Operations and the customer's technical program managers.
• OSHA 30 and NFPA 70E awareness.
• Site-based at the campus for the duration of the assignment, with travel between IREN sites; senior hourly field role.
• Authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Issue the project's Division 1 MEP commissioning specification and the Commissioning Authority request for proposal from the IREN templates, route them to the Director for review before issue, and lead Commissioning Authority selection with Procurement.
• Own the Commissioning Authority contract and performance: scope, staffing levels, scorecards, monthly reviews and change management; approve the CxA's commissioning plan, scripts, methods of procedure, schedule and final reports; act as the CxA's primary point of contact.
• Be on site from fit-out start of the project's first building, two months before Level 3; mobilize the team and the Commissioning Authority so that the IREN commissioning platform, records and witness plan are in place before the first energization release.
• Lead, develop and performance-manage the campus commissioning team: the construction commissioning crew through the Construction Commissioning Manager, and the campus roles; run the daily and weekly commissioning cadence with the CxA, the crew, the trade contractors or general contractor and Construction.
• Manage the campus commissioning scope as a project: the commissioning schedule in Microsoft Project and its feed to the Primavera P6 master schedule; the budget and change control for the CxA, NETA testing, load banks, temporary cooling, leak detection and other commissioning services; and the early stand-up of GPU clusters during Level 4 and Level 5 that the self-perform model exists to deliver.
• Hold the Level 3 entry gate: confirm with Construction's quality function that Level 1 and Level 2 records are complete in the IREN platform, recommend entry to the Director, and refuse entry in writing when records are not complete.
• Own the project issues log through the Commissioning Authority: drive identification, remediation and verified closure of deficiencies before each level gate; chair Level 3, 4 and 5 readiness reviews with the Project Director, who retains the Level 3 to 4 and 4 to 5 gate decisions.
• Peer-review Construction quality on the project: witness hold points and sample records to the agreed plan; share first-pass rate, defects by discipline and rework with the quality manager.
• Coordinate factory witness testing, site acceptance testing and vendor start-up with Engineering, Procurement and Operations; make sure vendor evidence arrives progressively, not at final handoff.
• Give commissioning input into construction contracts before award, including Commissioning Authority templates, hold points and IREN witness rights written into general-contractor contracts.
• Report progress, risks and KPIs to the Director and project leadership; elevate schedule-versus-standard conflicts early for joint decision by the Director and delivery leadership.
• Ensure safe execution of all commissioning activity: energization permits, lockout/tagout under the site LOTO program, arc-flash and hot-work controls, method-of-procedure reviews, pre-task planning and change control; hold stop-work authority for commissioning activity on the project; no equipment is energized without the Commissioning Authority's written release.
• Own turnover sequencing for the project: the order in which systems and data halls are started, tested and handed to Operations, agreed with Construction and the CxA and held in the commissioning schedule; lead the readiness reviews and walk-downs that precede each energization and start-up.
• Coordinate commissioning with HSE, project controls, utility representatives and the general contractor or trade contractors, including utility energization sequences and protection coordination at the point of interconnection.
• Own the project's commissioning record set in the IREN platform (test reports, issue and punch lists, turnover packages, redlines, as-built records, certificates and lessons learned) and the operator training and knowledge-transfer plan delivered with the CxA and vendors before each handoff to Operations.
• Prepare the Level 5 acceptance package for the Director's signature and capture lessons learned at each level gate for the Commissioning Subject Matter Experts and the KPI & Lessons Learned Lead.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Vendor management

Engineering background

On-site work

Safety awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Construction Management background

Tools

Microsoft Project

Primavera P6

CxAlloy

MS Office

Job description

IREN is seeking a seasoned Commissioning Project Manager to lead campus commissioning from contract input through Level 5 testing and turnover to Operations. You will direct the CxA vendor, manage schedules and budgets, and coordinate with Construction, Operations and customer tech leads on a multi-building data center campus.

Role requires on-site presence at Sweetwater/Childress, Texas, with travel between sites; OSHA NFPA 70E awareness and strong MS Project/Primavera skills are essential for