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This role provides site- and program-level leadership across commissioning readiness, test execution oversight, issue resolution, and acceptancequality for new builds, expansions, retrofits, and high-priority capacity programs.\nYou will serve as a senior people leader within the Data Center Commissioning organization, partnering with Construction, Engineering, Site Deployment, Facilities Operations, Reliability, Security, Network, Supply Chain, and third-party commissioning agents to drive predictable, safe, and auditable commissioning outcomes. The role requires deep mission-critical infrastructure judgment, strong field execution discipline, and the ability to lead managers, engineers, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders through complex commissioning milestones.\nThis is not a purely administrative project management role. It is a technical commissioning leadership role responsible for ensuring installed systems perform as designed, commissioning evidence is complete, risks are surfaced early, and operational teams receive facilities that are ready to run without latent defects or unresolved acceptance risk.\nResponsibilities\nLead commissioning validation execution across assigned data center sites, campuses, regions, or major capacity programs, with accountability for readiness, test governance, quality, safety, and operational acceptance.\n\nOwn commissioning validation standards for L1-L5 activities, including factory witness testing, pre-functional checks, functional performance testing, integrated systems testing, failure-mode validation, sequence-of-operations verification, and turnover documentation.\n\nProvide technical and management oversight of internal commissioning teams, commissioning agents, general contractors, trade partners, equipment vendors, and other third-party service providers.\n\nPartner with Engineering and Construction teams to review design intent, submittals, commissioning plans, method statements, test scripts, acceptance criteria, and system readiness before field execution.\n\nEnsure commissioning activities validate critical MEP and controls systems, including medium- and low-voltage power distribution, generators, UPS systems, switchgear, HVAC, chilled water systems, pumps, BMS, EPMS, SCADA/DCIM interfaces, fire/life-safety systems, and supporting infrastructure.\n\nDrive commissioning schedule integration with construction completion, site readiness, network deployment, rack energization, operations staffing, CMMS activation, and customer capacity milestones.\n\nIdentify commissioning risks, blockers, failed test conditions, recurring deficiencies, documentation gaps, and acceptance issues; drive clear ownership, escalation, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and closure discipline.\n\nEstablish portfolio-level reporting for commissioning progress, defect aging, test completion, system readiness, vendor performance, safety observations, punch-list health, and operational turnover risk.\n\nEnsure commissioning deliverables meet OCI standards for safety, quality, operability, maintainability, security, compliance, and long-term operations supportability.\n\nLead continuous improvement of commissioning playbooks, validation templates, test-script quality, lessons learned, vendor scorecards, and readiness gates across the data center delivery lifecycle.\n\nDevelop and coach commissioning managers and senior technical contributors, building capability, accountability, and consistent execution practices across the organization.\n\nRepresent commissioning status, risk, and acceptance recommendations to senior leaders, ensuring executive communications are clear, evidence-based, and tied to business-critical capacity delivery decisions.\n\nSkills and Competencies\nSenior-level leadership of data center commissioning programs. Strong field judgment with the ability to challenge incomplete evidence, weak test scripts, premature acceptance, and unresolved commissioning risk before turnover.Ability to translate data center commissioning findings into clear business, schedule, safety, reliability, and operational-risk recommendations.\n\nStrong stakeholder management across data center commissioning engineering, construction, operations, deployment, network, safety, security, vendors, and executive leadership.\nWritten and verbal communication skills, including concise commissioning reporting, executive escalation, issue framing, and action tracking.\nHigh attention to detail in data center commissioning documentation, evidence review, punch-list closure, readiness certification, and turnover package quality.\nBias for structured execution, accountability, repeatable commissioning mechanisms, and continuous improvement across multiple data center sites or programs.\nAbility to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-visibility data center commissioning environments where capacity delivery, uptime, safety, quality, and compliance are critical.\nPreferred Candidate Profile\n5-7+ years of data center commissioning experience.\n5+ years leading commissioning teams, contractors, or commissioning partners on large-scale, schedule-driven data center projects.\nDeep experience with data center commissioning workflows, including pre-functional testing, functional testing, integrated systems testing, factory witness testing, site acceptance testing, failure-mode validation, and operational turnover.\nStrong technical command of the electrical, mechanical, controls, and life-safety systems commissioned in high-availability data centers. \nDemonstrated ability to manage data center commissioning schedules, cross-functional dependencies, vendor performance, field quality, issue resolution, and executive-level risk communication.\nExperience building and improving data center commissioning standards, test scripts, readiness gates, acceptance packages, operating rhythms, and performance reporting.\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering OR Mechanical Engineering.\nConstruction Management, Facilities Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent data center commissioning experience will be considered.\nPreferred Skills / Certifications\nExperience in hyperscale cloud data centers, colocation campuses, semiconductor facilities, utilities, power generation, or large industrial infrastructure portfolios is strongly preferred.\nProfessional Engineering (PE), Certified Commissioning Professional (CCP), Certified Commissioning Authority (CxA), PMP, LEED AP, or equivalent technical credential is a plus.\nFamiliarity with commissioning standards and methods such as ASHRAE commissioning principles, NETA testing practices, NFPA requirements, NEC, OSHA, local authority requirements, and applicable reliability or quality frameworks.\nExperience with commissioning management platforms, punch-list systems, CMMS, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, DCIM, asset management, document control, change management, and operational reporting tools.\nExperience managing third-party commissioning agents, general contractors, trade partners, equipment vendors, testing firms, and owner’s representatives.\nExperience validating control sequences, automation logic, alarm response, failover behavior, emergency operating modes, and integrated system performance.\nPhysical Demands / Work Environment\nThis is a mission-critical commissioning leadership role supporting active construction, retrofit, and operational data center environments where safety, uptime, and execution quality are essential. Regular attendance, travel, schedule flexibility, and availability during major commissioning milestones, integrated systems testing, energization activities, or critical escalations may be required.\nTo perform these duties, you must be able to move between office, campus, construction, commissioning, and active operational environments; walk sites; climb stairs; inspect infrastructure spaces; participate in field validation reviews; and safely engage in commissioning readiness activities, with or without reasonable accommodation.\nMarket Alignment\nThis role profile reflects common marketplace expectations for senior data center commissioning leadership roles at hyperscale and mission-critical infrastructure organizations. Comparable postings emphasize testing and validation oversight of electrical and mechanical infrastructure, factory witness testing, pre-functional and functional testing, integrated systems testing, third-party commissioning vendor governance, design and submittal review, scope/schedule/budget alignment, capacity delivery, cross-functional coordination with engineering/construction/operations/network teams, and operational acceptance readiness.\n\nWhy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?\nGlobal impact at scale: Contribute directly to the safe, reliable, and predictable delivery of OCI data center capacity across regions and continents.\nTechnically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineering, construction, commissioning, automation, reliability, and operations teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure environment.\nCulture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process discipline, evidence-based acceptance, accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.\nLong-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, technical development, and growth opportunities for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure, commissioning, and mission-critical operations.\nDisclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. 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