Commissioning Standards and Product Acceptance Lead

Responsibilities

• Develop standardized commissioning requirements, scripts, readiness gates, hold/witness points, and acceptance criteria that validate OCI design intent and product performance.
• Create repeatable test scripts and evidence requirements for critical acceptance activities, including black start rehearsals, islanding/resynchronization, protection coordination validation, and power quality testing at data center PCCs.
• Establish acceptance packages that clearly define what must be proven before equipment, systems, or integrated products are released for use.
• Partner with OEMs, EPCs, utilities, and operators to align on acceptance scope, sequencing, documentation, and testing constraints in live, high-availability environments.
• Define how system-level issues are identified, documented, analyzed, and closed during product acceptance and early operation.
• Lead root-cause analysis requirements, corrective action expectations, and retest criteria to ensure issues are resolved before final acceptance.
• Establish reliability KPIs, event review expectations, and operational readiness deliverables that support a stable handoff to operations.
• Champion safety, compliance, and disciplined change management, including test procedure control, LOTO/PTW requirements, and commissioning risk assessments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in commissioning, acceptance testing, or technical validation for large-scale generation, T&D/substations, microgrids, or mission-critical power systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in protection and controls, including relay settings/coordination, control schemes, EMS/SCADA integration, and performance validation under transient conditions.
• Proven ability to create commissioning standards, test scripts, acceptance frameworks, and technical documentation that can scale across multiple sites or programs.
• Deep understanding of commissioning best practices: test planning, procedure development, evidence-based acceptance, punch-list management, and disciplined retest/closeout.
• Demonstrated incident and event analysis skills, including disturbance review, oscillation/hunting investigation, nuisance trip elimination, and durable corrective action development.