Commissioning & Reliability Lead

Role Overview

The Commissioning & Reliability Lead will deliver a clean, fast energization and stable first 90 days of operation for OCI mission-critical power systems—eliminating control hunting, miscoordination, and nuisance trips. This role leads the integrated commissioning plan across generation, substations, controls, and data center power delivery, defining hold/witness points and acceptance criteria, and executing system-level testing (including black start rehearsals, islanding tests, and power quality acceptance testing at the data center PCC).

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the integrated commissioning plan spanning generation, substations, protection, controls/EMS, and data center power distribution.
• Define and manage hold points, witness points, readiness gates, and acceptance criteria; ensure test evidence is complete and auditable.
• Lead system-level commissioning activities and critical tests, including:
  • Black-start rehearsals and restoration sequencing validation
  • Islanding and re-synchronization tests (as applicable)
  • Power quality acceptance testing at data center PCCs (voltage/frequency regulation, harmonics/flicker where applicable, transient response)
• Identify and close system-level gaps during commissioning (integration issues across OEM boundaries, settings conflicts, undocumented dependencies, sequencing errors).
• Drive structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for:
  • Control hunting/instability
  • Protection miscoordination
  • Nuisance trips and unexpected interactions across integrated assets
• Coordinate OEMs, EPCs, utilities, and operators in live/mission-critical environments; align stakeholders on safe sequencing and clear “go/no-go” criteria.
• Establish operational reliability readiness for turnover, including:
  • RAM targets/assumptions and early-life reliability approach
  • Spares recommendations and inventory readiness
  • Maintenance readiness, procedures, and runbooks
  • Training needs and turnover package expectations
• Maintain commissioning risk register, punch list, retest plans, and corrective action tracking through stabilization and turnover to O&M.

Basic Requirements

• 10+ years commissioning large-scale generation, T&D/substations, microgrids, or equivalent mission-critical power systems.
• Demonstrated track record bringing complex systems to COD and stabilizing operations during the early-life period (first 90 days).
• Strong experience coordinating OEMs, EPCs, utilities, and operators in live environments with strict safety and uptime expectations.
• Proven ability to detect and resolve system-level integration gaps (beyond component-level commissioning).
• Strong documentation and communication skills (test plans, acceptance criteria, commissioning reports, issue tracking, executive updates).

Preferred Requirements

• Experience commissioning integrated systems that include inverter-based resources (BESS, fuel cells, etc.), thermal generation, and utility interconnections.
• Strong familiarity with protection and controls commissioning workflows (settings management, relay test coordination, event report/oscillography interpretation).
• Experience leading PCC power quality testing and translating results into corrective actions and retest criteria.
• Experience building repeatable commissioning governance (standard test scripts, evidence packages, change/configuration control, lessons learned).
• Familiarity with large-scale cloud provider / hyperscale data center power environments.