Director, Commissioning QA/QC

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Director, Commissioning QA/QC to lead startup, commissioning, quality validation, and operational readiness for Oracle's Abilene AI Data Center. This role ensures critical systems are installed correctly, tested thoroughly, energized safely, and turned over ready for operations. The Director will coordinate across construction, controls, vendors, QA/QC, commissioning teams, and operations to drive predictable startup execution, reduce rework, and ensure systems meet design intent and operational requirements. This is a field-focused leadership role with expected site engagement of 60-80% during turnover, inspection, commissioning, and startup phases. This position is based in Abilene, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Lead commissioning, QA/QC, startup readiness, and turnover validation across active data center projects
• Own startup sequencing, integrated testing, energization readiness, and operational handoff coordination
• Validate installation quality, system readiness, and turnover completeness in the field
• Lead readiness reviews, QA/QC reviews, startup meetings, and issue-resolution sessions
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement across commissioning and QA/QC execution

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience leading commissioning, QA/QC, startup, turnover, or operational readiness on large-scale mission-critical or infrastructure projects
• 5+ years managing people, including commissioning managers, engineers, vendors, and contractors; ability to set priorities, assign work, coach teams, and hold teams accountable across multiple projects, regions and sites
• Strong knowledge of data center infrastructure including; electrical systems, mechanical, controls, life safety, and building automation systems
• Experience with startup sequencing, integrated testing, functional performance verification, energization planning, and turnover acceptance
• Ability to assess field readiness, audit installation quality, observe testing, and verify deficiency closure
• Strong understanding of QA/QC programs, inspection planning, audits, quality reporting, and corrective action management
• Proven ability to coordinate across construction, vendors, commissioning teams, QA/QC, controls, and operations
• Strong communication, escalation, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-accountability hyperscale delivery environment
• Willingness to maintain heavy field presence during startup, inspection, commissioning, and turnover phases

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering hyperscale, cloud, AI, colocation, or enterprise data center projects
• Experience leading commissioning or QA/QC for major data center campuses or multi-building programs
• Knowledge of Level 1–5 commissioning, integrated systems testing, readiness gates, and operational acceptance
• Familiarity with medium-voltage and low-voltage electrical systems, generators, UPS, switchgear, EPMS BMS, cooling systems, controls, and fire/life safety systems
• Experience building QA/QC governance, audit programs, turnover quality standards, dashboards, and corrective action processes
• Experience improving startup cycle time, first-pass yield, inspection pass rates, defect recurrence, and operational handoff quality
• Certifications such as PMP, CxA, CCP, CQE, CMQ/OE, OSHA 10 or OSHA 30, LEED, or related credentials