Senior Data Center Commissioning Engineer

About the role

The Senior Data Center Commissioning Engineer supports commissioning across multiple data center projects for hyperscale AI data centers in the Greater Abilene, Texas Area. The role involves ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with business goals, industry standards, and operational reliability requirements. The position requires close collaboration with various stakeholders, contractors, engineering teams, and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Support daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.
• Work closely with general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.
• Maintain continuous site awareness through regular field walks and direct contractor engagement.
• Monitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and workface readiness.
• Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, milestones, logistics plans, and turnover priorities.
• Identify and help resolve field issues, trade conflicts, congestion risks, and execution constraints.
• Reinforce onsite safety expectations through visible field presence.
• Support installation quality verification and help reduce rework.
• Partner with QA/QC, commissioning, controls, logistics, safety, and operations teams.
• Track punch-list items, turnover readiness, and startup support requirements.
• Provide accurate daily field reports, progress updates, issue logs, and milestone updates.
• Support recovery plans when schedule, quality, productivity, or coordination issues arise.
• Support Construction Managers in promoting consistent field execution practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale, complex projects.
• Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure, semiconductor, power, or other technical construction environments.
• Knowledge of construction sequencing, field coordination, manpower tracking, productivity monitoring, and milestone execution.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, look-ahead plans, and turnover documentation.
• Proven ability to identify field risks, resolve construction issues, and escalate effectively.
• Strong understanding of safety expectations, quality standards, punch-list management, and turnover readiness.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise updates.
• Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 85% field/site engagement.
• Strong ownership mindset, urgency, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced construction environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting hyperscale data center construction projects.
• Experience in an owner’s representative, construction management, EPC, or general contractor environment.
• Familiarity with data center systems, including electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, network, or commissioning-related scopes.
• Experience supporting or coaching Construction Managers, field engineers, coordinators, or discipline-specific construction teams.
• Experience supporting fast-track construction, phased turnover, commissioning-driven delivery, or recovery execution.
• Familiarity with construction reporting tools, scheduling platforms, document control systems, and issue tracking processes such as Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.