Commissioning Engineer, AMER-West ACx

About the role

The AWS Infrastructure Services team is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. This includes managing the construction and commissioning of various systems in Amazon-owned data centers.

Responsibilities

• Support the operations of Amazon owned data centers by overseeing the testing and validation of electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
• Review design documents, lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and manage third-party commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing.
• Provide multi-discipline input into the scheduling, test script development, designing, and planning of projects.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements during commissioning.
• Communicate lessons learned and collaborate on program improvements.
• Coordinate site activities, prioritize tasks, and ensure each issue has a clear path to resolution.
• Manage the project commissioning vendor whose primary scope is to identify issues, determine criticality, propose solutions, and document findings.
• Communicate lessons learned to help peers on similar projects in flight and participate in initiatives that drive improvement to the commissioning program.

Requirements

• Experience in Critical Infrastructure Commissioning.
• Fast-paced environment.
• Walk job sites in uneven terrain.
• Work at heights and from ladders.
• Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Lift and/or move up to 49 pounds; and participate in group lifts for 50 pounds or more.
• Carry objects weighing up to 49 pounds for short distances.
• Manipulate small wires and objects easily.
• Work in a noisy environment.
• Work in environments that are colder or hotter than a normal office environment.
• Ability to manipulate small wires and objects easily.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally for up to 80% of the year.
• Personal transportation for meetings and job visits away from the office; reimbursed.
• US Citizenship required.

Physical Requirements

• Walk job sites in uneven terrain.
• Work at heights and from ladders.
• Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Lift and/or move up to 49 pounds; and participate in group lifts for 50 pounds or more.
• Carry objects weighing up to 49 pounds for short distances.
• Manipulate small wires and objects easily.
• Work in a noisy environment.
• Work in environments that are colder or hotter than a normal office environment.

Additional Job Requirements

• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally for up to 80% of the year.
• Personal transportation for meetings and job visits away from the office; reimbursed.
• US Citizenship required.

Key job responsibilities

• Provide testing and validation oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
• Lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT) and manage third-party commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing.
• Take Ownership of projects’ successes by diving deep to resolve technical issues and having a bias for action to address ever-changing schedule and coordination demands onsite.
• Communicate lessons learned and continuously collaborate on program improvements.
• Provide multi-discipline input into the scheduling, test script development, designing, and planning of projects.
• Review component submittal packages, lead FWT, perform system level and integrated system testing.
• During commissioning, continuously audit activities to ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements.
• Comprehensive weekly reporting of status of all ongoing projects and lessons learned to continually improve the quality of our program.
• Include coverage of multiple inflight projects and tight timelines.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering, installation, or startup/commissioning of electrical and mechanical systems experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or 5+ years of relevant discipline work experience.
• High technical competency in either mechanical or electrical or control systems utilized in critical infrastructures, with the capability to learn and be trained in the others.
• Understand the design concept and intent by reviewing mechanical or electrical design documentation, including drawings, specifications, vendor submittals and sequences of operations and provide feedback on the same in accordance with Amazon standards for basis of design.
• Develop but majorly review commissioning documentation such as test plans, scripts and reports developed by vendors to ensure accuracy in accordance with the design requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Outlook required; advanced knowledge of SharePoint (or similar) preferred.
• Strong communication skills, detail oriented, highly organized, and able to work in high stress environments to maintain calm and respectful interaction with multiple teams.
• Advanced knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and controls systems for critical infrastructures.
• Ability to read and edit construction documents (design drawings, control diagrams, specifications, etc.).