Commissioning Validation Engineer
Job Description
Job DescriptionAbout the Opportunity
CAPISIUS Consulting is recruiting on behalf of a client delivering large-scale cloud data center infrastructure programs. The client’s name is confidential at this stage and will be disclosed to qualified candidates during the interview process.
Role Overview
As Commissioning Validation Engineer, you will support commissioning validation for large-scale cloud data center delivery programs, ensuring critical electrical, mechanical, controls, life-safety, and supporting infrastructure systems are tested, validated, documented, and accepted before operational turnover. This role provides field-level and program-level validation support across commissioning readiness, test execution, issue tracking, evidence review, and acceptance quality for new builds, expansions, retrofits, and high-priority capacity programs.
You will partner with Construction, Engineering, Site Deployment, Facilities Operations, Reliability, Security, Network, Supply Chain, third-party commissioning agents, general contractors, trade partners, and equipment vendors to drive predictable, safe, and auditable commissioning outcomes. The role requires mission-critical infrastructure judgment, field execution discipline, and the ability to translate commissioning findings into clear readiness, risk, and acceptance recommendations.
This is not a purely administrative project coordination role. It is a technical commissioning validation role responsible for confirming installed systems perform as designed, commissioning evidence is complete, defects are visible and owned, and operational teams receive facilities that are ready to run without latent defects or unresolved acceptance risk.
Key Responsibilities
• Validate commissioning execution across assigned data center sites, campuses, regions, or major capacity programs, with focus on readiness, test quality, safety, evidence completeness, and operational acceptance.
• Support Level 1 through Level 5 (L1-L5) commissioning activities, including factory witness testing, pre-functional checks, functional performance testing, integrated systems testing, failure-mode validation, sequence-of-operations verification, and turnover documentation review.
• Review commissioning plans, method statements, test scripts, acceptance criteria, checklists, and system readiness evidence before field execution.
• Observe and validate field commissioning activities for 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.
• Confirm test execution aligns with design intent, approved commissioning scripts, safety requirements, site access controls, change management expectations, and operational readiness gates.
• Identify failed test conditions, incomplete evidence, recurring deficiencies, documentation gaps, punch-list risk, and acceptance concerns; drive clear ownership, escalation, corrective action, and closure discipline.
• Partner with Engineering and Construction teams to review design intent, submittals, equipment readiness, start-up documentation, and commissioning prerequisites.
• Coordinate with Site Deployment and Operations teams to align commissioning validation with construction completion, network deployment, rack energization, CMMS activation, maintenance readiness, operations staffing, and customer capacity milestones.
• Support readiness reviews, test-readiness meetings, issue-resolution sessions, daily commissioning standups, lessons-learned reviews, and operational turnover discussions.
• Inspect commissioning evidence packages for completeness, accuracy, traceability, revision control, punch-list closure, deficiency resolution, and alignment to acceptance standards.
• Maintain validation trackers, action registers, risk logs, defect-aging summaries, readiness dashboards, test completion status, and concise leadership updates.
• Escalate material commissioning risks using clear technical framing, including impact to safety, reliability, schedule, operability, maintainability, customer capacity, and operational turnover.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of commissioning playbooks, validation templates, test-script quality, readiness gates, vendor performance feedback, and acceptance package standards.
• Promote a culture of safety, evidence-based acceptance, procedural discipline, technical accountability, and continuous improvement across large-scale data center projects.
Required Qualifications
• 6+ years of experience (IC4 level) or 8+ years of experience (IC5 level) in data center commissioning, mission-critical facilities, electrical/mechanical infrastructure delivery, controls validation, critical facilities operations, construction quality, or similarly complex infrastructure environments.
• Hands-on experience supporting commissioning workflows such as pre-functional testing, functional testing, integrated systems testing, factory witness testing, site acceptance testing, failure-mode validation, and operational turnover.
• Strong technical understanding of data center electrical, mechanical, controls, and life-safety systems used in high-availability environments.
• Experience reviewing commissioning test scripts, readiness documentation, punch lists, issue logs, turnover packages, and acceptance evidence.
• Demonstrated ability to work in the field with commissioning agents, general contractors, trade partners, equipment vendors, engineering teams, construction teams, deployment teams, and operations stakeholders.
• Ability to challenge incomplete evidence, weak test scripts, premature acceptance, unclear ownership, and unresolved system risk before turnover.
• Experience working in schedule-driven, high-reliability infrastructure programs where safety, quality, customer capacity, and operational readiness are critical.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, Facilities Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent mission-critical experience will be considered.
Skills and Competencies
• Strong commissioning validation discipline with practical understanding of readiness gates, test execution, issue tracking, evidence review, and acceptance quality.
• Sound field judgment and the ability to connect technical findings to business, schedule, safety, reliability, and operational risk.
• Ability to interpret design documents, sequences of operation, test scripts, method statements, equipment submittals, commissioning reports, and turnover documentation.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including concise reporting, issue framing, escalation writing, action tracking, and leadership-ready updates.
• Strong stakeholder management across engineering, construction, commissioning, deployment, operations, network, safety, security, vendors, and site leadership.
• High attention to detail in commissioning documentation, test evidence, deficiency closure, punch-list tracking, readiness certification, and acceptance package quality.
• Ability to operate in fast-moving environments with multiple concurrent sites, shifting priorities, constrained schedules, and high visibility.
• Bias for structured execution, repeatable mechanisms, accountability, standard work, and continuous improvement across large-scale data center delivery.
Preferred Skills / Certifications
• Experience in hyperscale cloud data centers, colocation campuses, semiconductor facilities, utilities, power generation, industrial facilities, or other mission-critical infrastructure portfolios.
• Experience validating power distribution, generators, UPS systems, switchgear, chiller plants, pumps, CRAH/CRAC units, air handling systems, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, DCIM, fire alarm, and life-safety systems.
• Familiarity with commissioning standards and practices such as ASHRAE commissioning principles, NETA testing practices, NFPA requirements, NEC, OSHA, local authority requirements, and applicable reliability or quality frameworks.
• Experience with commissioning management platforms, punch-list systems, CMMS, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, DCIM, asset management, document control, change management, and operational reporting tools.
• Experience validating control sequences, automation logic, alarm response, failover behavior, emergency operating modes, load transfer, restart behavior, and integrated system performance.
• Certified Commissioning Professional (CCP), Certified Commissioning Authority (CxA), Professional Engineer (PE), PMP, LEED AP, OSHA training, NETA-related training, or an equivalent technical credential is a plus.
• Experience supporting global audiences, multi-site deployment programs, vendor-managed execution, and teams with varying levels of technical depth.
Key Skills
Commissioning (Cx) • Commissioning Validation • Data Center Commissioning • Mission-Critical Facilities • Hyperscale Data Centers • L1–L5 Commissioning • Pre-Functional Testing • Functional Performance Testing (FPT) • Integrated Systems Testing (IST) • Factory Witness Testing (FWT) • Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) • Failure-Mode Validation • Sequence of Operations (SOO) • MEP Systems • Medium-Voltage / Low-Voltage Power Distribution • Generators • UPS • Switchgear • HVAC • Chilled Water Systems • CRAH/CRAC • BMS • EPMS • SCADA • DCIM • CMMS • Fire/Life-Safety Systems • Punch List • Turnover Documentation • Operational Readiness • ASHRAE • NETA • NFPA • NEC • OSHA • CCP • CxA • PE • PMP • LEED AP
Work Environment / Physical Demands
This is an onsite position supporting the client’s data center delivery portfolio. The position may be assigned to any active or planned site within the markets listed above based on business need, project phase, deployment priorities, and capacity delivery requirements. Site assignments may change over time as programs progress from planning through construction, commissioning, deployment, turnover, and operational handoff.
The role requires regular onsite presence to participate in field reviews, readiness meetings, deployment activities, commissioning or validation milestones, vendor coordination, issue resolution, and operational handoff support. Travel or temporary assignment to other sites may be required to support schedule-critical milestones, escalations, lessons learned, or portfolio priorities.
Site visits may involve walking large facilities, standing for extended periods, using stairs, entering white-space or infrastructure areas, coordinating with vendor teams, and following all site safety, PPE, security, and access-control requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Why Join?
• Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to the safe, reliable, and predictable delivery of cloud data center capacity across regions and continents.
• Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineering, construction, commissioning, automation, reliability, deployment, and operations teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure environment.
• Culture 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.
• Long-term career development: Build a career at the intersection of commissioning, mission-critical infrastructure, data center delivery, operational readiness, and cloud infrastructure growth.
Equal Employment Opportunity
CAPISIUS Consulting and its client are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Both CAPISIUS Consulting and its client are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment process. If you require an accommodation to participate in the recruiting process, please let us know when you apply.