Site Commissioning and Turnover Manager

Core Scientific, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Core Scientific, Inc. seeks a Site Commissioning and Turnover Manager to act as the onsite Operations Engineering liaison from construction readiness through final turnover.

You will coordinate testing, safety controls, and acceptance with Site Development, contractors, and customers. The role requires a Bachelor's in engineering related field and 7+ years in commissioning or data-center operations, with strong stakeholder communication and KPI-driven reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 7+ years commissioning/engineering/startup experience, with data center exposure.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and communicate with field and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary onsite Operations Engineering liaison for commissioning, startup, testing and turnover.
• Maintain an integrated view of system boundaries, milestones, risks, and acceptance requirements through final turnover.
• Review plans, procedures, test scripts, safety controls, and restoration plans to ensure alignment with requirements.
• Coordinate readiness of discipline leads and stakeholders during commissioning and turnover.
• Attend critical tests, verify results, and ensure issues are escalated as needed.
• Maintain dashboards, logs, risk registers, and status reporting for leadership.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Project coordination

Stakeholder communication

Field presence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/related field

Tools

CMMS

Asset-data platforms

Dashboards

Job description

Who We Are

Core Scientific is a leading provider of infrastructure for high-performance compute in North America. Our mission is to accelerate digital innovation by scaling high-value compute rapidly, efficiently, and responsibly. We transform energy into high-value compute with unmatched efficiency at scale. Core Scientific is a publicly trade company (NASDAQ: CORZ). We power AI, HPC, and other next-generation data center workloads demanding exceptional computing power, in addition to our digital asset mining operations. Our footprint consists of 11 data center campuses across seven states, housing advanced infrastructure for our customers. What sets us apart? We have an entrepreneurial culture, a "can-do" and collaborative attitude, and we own and control our infrastructure. These strategic advantages enable us to maintain operational excellence, increase efficiency, and rapidly deploy cutting-edge innovations developed by our team of experts. Join us and accelerate your career alongside our groundbreaking journey. We seek smart, creative, and collaborative professionals who thrive in a fast-paced, result-driven environment. Ready to be part of something exceptional? Apply today and make an impact at Core Scientific.

The Job

The Site Commissioning and Turnover Manager is the site-specific Operations Engineering representative responsible for monitoring commissioning completion, coordinating technical assurance, and preparing an assigned facility for turnover to Operations Engineering and Site Operations. The role is embedded in the onsite commissioning process from construction readiness through Level 1 activities, functional testing, Integrated Systems Testing, phased capacity release, and final turnover. Site Development retains responsibility for project delivery, daily commissioning execution, contractor direction, and management of its third-party commissioning agent. This position verifies progress and evidence, coordinates national Operations Engineering resources, tracks gaps through closure, and escalates conditions that could prevent acceptance.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary onsite Operations Engineering liaison for commissioning, startup, testing, and turnover activities with Site Development, commissioning teams, contractors, vendors, Site Operations, and customers. Maintain an integrated view of system boundaries, commissioning milestones, testing activities, risks, dependencies, and acceptance requirements through final turnover. Review commissioning plans, procedures, test scripts, safety controls, temporary operating conditions, and restoration plans to ensure alignment with Operations Engineering requirements. Coordinate participation of Operations Engineering discipline leads and readiness stakeholders throughout commissioning and turnover activities. Attend critical tests, verify results are documented and traceable, and ensure technical issues are escalated to the appropriate authority. Maintain dashboards, action logs, risk registers, milestone forecasts, and executive-ready status reporting. Track deficiencies, punch-list items, failed tests, deferred work, documentation gaps, and readiness actions through resolution. Drive accountability for corrective actions, monitor due dates, and escalates unresolved issues or schedule impacts. Verify closure through inspection, retesting, approved documentation, or discipline-lead review. Identify conditions that may affect safety, reliability, capacity, maintainability, customer access, or operational acceptance. Coordinate readiness reviews supporting customer access, capacity releases, conditional turnover, and final acceptance. Verify completion and accessibility of required turnover documentation, including test records, as-builts, O&M manuals, training records, warranties, asset data, and open-item logs. Partner with Site Operations and Operations Readiness to confirm staffing, training, procedures, CMMS readiness, maintenance planning, vendor support, and emergency-response preparedness. Consolidate commissioning and turnover evidence into recommendations for release, conditional release, or hold status. Support early-life operations, warranty management, and transition of remaining actions into operational governance. Manage commissioning assurance, readiness oversight, and turnover coordination activities for the site. Foster open, respectful, and professional communication directly within the team, with co-workers/ teammates, and leaders across the organization. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Facilities Management, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. Seven or more years of progressive commissioning, engineering, construction, startup, or critical-facility operations experience, including at least five years supporting data centers or other mission-critical facilities. Experience coordinating multidisciplinary commissioning, functional testing, Integrated Systems Testing, deficiency management, phased release, and turnover. Working knowledge of electrical, mechanical, controls, fire and life-safety, security, network, and monitoring system dependencies. Experience with commissioning schedules, readiness gates, test procedures, change control, live-site work, turnover documentation, training, and operational acceptance. Ability to maintain field presence, manage competing priorities, drive action closure through influence, and communicate with field and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

Preferred Experience commissioning high-density or liquid-cooled data centers or similarly complex facilities. Credential such as BCxP, CCP, CxA, PMP, CFM, or equivalent. Experience with commissioning-management, document-control, scheduling, dashboard, CMMS, and asset-data platforms. Experience with Early Customer Access, phased capacity release, live-site expansion, or customer delivery.

Reports To

Director, Engineering & Commissioning Location Remote.

To be considered for this role, you must reside near the following locations: Miami, FL, Austin, TX, Pecos, TX, Denton, TX, Hunt, TX, Muskogee, OK, Marble, NC, Dalton, GA or Auburn, AL Travel Frequent travel may be required as needed. (Up to 50% of time worked.)

Work Environment This job is operated in professional office, warehouse, and data center environments. It routinely uses standard office equipment, including laptop computers, photocopiers, smartphones, and scissor lifts.

Physical Demands While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, use hands, and lift up to 50 pounds.

Position Type/ Expected Hours of Work This is a full-time, onsite position. General hours and days of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Some nights and weekends may be required.

Supervisory Experience (Yes or No)

No Core Scientific is a leader in digital infrastructure for high-density colocation services and digital asset mining. We operate dedicated, purpose-built facilities for digital asset mining and are a premier provider of digital infrastructure, software solutions, and services to our third-party customers.