Director of Commissioning

About the role

The Director of Commissioning is responsible for the supervision and technical support of the Commissioning group. The position will act as the head of the Commissioning Department and fulfill the electrical checkout, testing, energization, and power plant control review before substantial completion.

Responsibilities

• Build a functioning commissioning team that will perform all electrical, physical, and testing activities for commissioning activities.
• Develop, train, and promote good practices across the team to fulfill the company, project, and department goals.
• Maintain a safety culture and bring industry-leading practices to the organization.
• Work with the team to plan, coordinate, assign, and schedule commissioning work tasks including project scope development, cost estimating, proposal development, commissioning documentation, and assembling the onsite team.
• Develop and own department goals to move forward into a top-tier EPC contractor.
• Develop standards, checklists, and commissioning practices that are benchmarked to industry-accepted standards.
• Develop relationships with other departments and work to collaborate with each team to bring commissioning needs back to the organization.
• Develop benchmarking practices for field activities and commissioning activities.
• Build a training and progression plan to detail new employees and progress them through the organization to develop skillsets and knowledge to promote staff.
• Knowledge of commissioning activities, standards, testing, and leadership.
• Works with other department efforts in the development and implementation of standards for equipment, material, design, and construction requirements for transmission substations to aid commissioning activities when installed.
• Provides input to yearly budget development related to commissioning staff, software, and test equipment procurement.
• Provides input into project estimates with estimators for commissioning activities for projects.
• Aids in cost variance analysis post-project completion to improve estimates.
• Coaches, mentors, perform performance reviews, and guides training/staff development.
• Interviews and evaluates candidates for employment and makes hiring recommendations.
• Approves expense statements and office leave requests.
• Actively participates in industry forums, conferences, and other company initiatives to support company's mission.
• Ability to travel up to 30%

Requirements

• 10+ years of directly related electric utility, EPC, or commissioning experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in commissioning activities.
• Demonstrated knowledge of electric system components and related communications and protection functions.
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills, including mentoring, coaching, and developing employees in a team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze performance, process improvements, and standardization activities.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written skills.
• Flexible and adaptable commercial agility; ability to reorder critical commissioning activities based on new commercial requirements, under tight deadlines and sometimes changing requirements.
• Demonstrated strong organizational skills.