Commissioning Engineer, Amazon Commissioning

Amazon • Herndon, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Data Center Commissioning Engineer (CxE), you will be part of highly
creative, efficient team tasked with tackling fascinating and challenging
problems building and supporting the operations of Amazon owned data centers.
The Amazon Commissioning team (ACx) understands, evaluates, defines and manages
the expectations of construction quality in accordance to engineering designs to
meet the customer requirements. The CxE is responsible for supporting vendors,
contractors, and other teams involved in the construction and commissioning of
various systems such as:

- Medium and low voltage power systems Generators
- UPS
- HVAC (Air Handlers / Exhaust Fans / VFD)
- Chilled Water Systems
- Building Management systems (BMS)
- Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS)
- Testing and balancing
- Pumps and Hydronic systems

Key job responsibilities
As the Commissioning Engineer (CxE), you will provide testing and validation
oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure. This
includes, but not limited to, review of design documents and equipment
submittals, leading Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and managing third-party
commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre-functional, functional,
and integrated systems testing. You will own your projects’ successes where you
had to Deep Dive to resolve technical issues and had Bias for Action to address
schedule impacts and coordination demands onsite. You will share your lessons
learned leading towards team growth and program improvements.

You will get the opportunity to provide multi-discipline input into the
scheduling, test script development, designing, and planning of projects. During
commissioning, you will be continuously auditing Cx vendors’ activities to
ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements.
Following the AWS project reporting format, you will be responsible for regular
reporting of commissioning progress and metrics of assigned project to your
Regional Commissioning Manager. You will have the opportunity to lead several
projects simultaneously to achieve key milestones and deliver data center
capacity, while managing the project budget as approved by Finance.

A day in the life
On a typical project, the CxE works across AWS engineering, capacity delivery,
operations, and contractor teams to coordinate site activities, prioritize
tasks, and ensure each issue has clear path to resolution. The CxE manages the
project commissioning vendor whose primary scope is to execute functional tests,
identify issues, determine criticality, propose solutions, and document their
findings. If project turnover is at risk, the CxE escalates to the appropriate
stakeholders. Upon project completion, the CxE will communicate lessons learned
to help peers on similar projects in flight and participate in initiatives that
drive improvement to the commissioning program.

About the team
The AWS Data Center Commissioning Team (ACx) is a wholly independent business
within the DCGS organization. This team of veteran professional Electrical
Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Controls Engineers, Project Managers, and
Operators is uniquely positioned to provide detailed engineering and operational
review and testing of equipment designs, operational functionality and
construction practices. The team is focused on ensuring the rapid delivery of a
quality product while maintaining full transparency, recording metrics of any
and every defect discovered during commissioning.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering, installation, or startup/commissioning of electrical and mechanical systems experience
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• NETA or ASHRAE certification or commissioning specific education courses
• Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, and Excel
• Experience with the design, construction, operation, or maintenance of mission critical facilities, especially data centers

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region
• Knowledge of commercial or industrial power systems or mechanical systems
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
• Experience using a variety of web-based and other software tools for calculation and data processing

Responsibilities

• Provide testing and validation oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
• Review design documents and equipment submittals
• Lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT)
• Manage third-party commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing.
• Deep Dive to resolve technical issues
• Bias for Action to address schedule impacts and coordination demands onsite.
• Share your lessons learned leading towards team growth and program improvements.
• Provide multi-discipline input into the scheduling, test script development, designing, and planning of projects.
• Continuously audit Cx vendors’ activities to ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements.
• Responsible for regular reporting of commissioning progress and metrics of assigned project to your Regional Commissioning Manager.
• Lead several projects simultaneously to achieve key milestones and deliver data center capacity, while managing the project budget as approved by Finance.
• Manage the project commissioning vendor whose primary scope is to execute functional tests, identify issues, determine criticality, propose solutions, and document their findings.
• Escalate to the appropriate stakeholders if project turnover is at risk.
• Communicate lessons learned to help peers on similar projects in flight and participate in initiatives that drive improvement to the commissioning program.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level