Project Director - Mission Critical

Position Summary

This role ensures projects meet safety, financial, schedule, and quality objectives while maintaining strong client relationships and proactively managing risk. The Project Director serves as a key leader in advancing the organization’s mission critical market presence, guiding teams through complex technical and commercial challenges, and ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and industry best practices.

Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Leads commissioning strategy across multiple projects
  Oversees commissioning managers and commissioning agents
  Develop and implement commissioning plans, schedules, and procedures for construction projects with commissioning agents, user groups, subcontractors, and construction team members
  Coordinate with design and construction teams to review project requirements and ensure that commissioning activities are integrated into the master project schedule

• Manage the commissioning process for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, building controls and other critical systems
  Manage pre-functional and functional testing of equipment and systems to verify proper installation and functionality
  Manage documentation of commissioning activities, test results, and equipment certifications

• Collaborate with user groups to ensure a smooth transition from construction to operation
  Solution-oriented troubleshooting
  Schedule and review factory witness testing
  Help coordinate and verify site acceptance verifications
  Ensure all testing L1-L5 is properly performed and documented
  Work with various manufactures, subcontractors, vendors and customer for equipment energizations and start-up
  Prepare for and manage materials necessary for commissioning process
  Write and track RFI’s and document general best practices and procedures
  Submit and track change orders
  Manage commissioning teams for each scope including mechanical, electrical, controls and CAD

• Develop comprehensive commissioning schedule and prepare for recovery
  Hold prep meetings, safety briefings and commissioning coordination meetings
  Review and approve testing scripts with CxA/customer and ensure feasibility with subcontractors
  Participate in job closeout process
  Monitors and enforces, along with project team, safety and OSHA standards to maintain safe working environment for all employees and site visitors

• Understands and can build a commissioning schedule
  Works with project team and subcontractors to ensure detailed commissioning schedule is met
  Proactively mitigate foreseen constraints, and assist in implementing plans to maintain or recover schedule
  Communicate unresolved constraints and impacts in a timely manner as well as plans to mitigate impacts
  Help ensure most up to date project documents are supplied to subcontractors and CxA
  Assist with redlining and updating drawings as you progress through commissioning
  Full understanding of commissioning process and able to provide quality control review of plans/specifications and documentation
  Responsible to provide technical and procedural commissioning direction to internal and external shareholders

• Strong understanding of LOTO and energy management throughout testing evolutions

Benefits

• 100% Medical & Dental premiums paid for
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with Employer Contribution
• PTO & Holidays
• 401k with match
• Life Insurance & Disability paid for
• Supplemental Benefits available
• Company Vehicle