Commissioning Senior Manager (data centers)

Equinix • Redwood City, CA

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About The Position

Equinix is seeking a Senior Manager, Commissioning to lead the planning and execution of commissioning across large-scale greenfield data center developments and complex retrofit projects in live, mission-critical environments. The role partners with Construction, Operations, Engineering, customers, contractors, consultants, and equipment vendors to ensure new capacity is tested, validated, and ready for operation. The position combines technical commissioning expertise, leadership, customer engagement, and program-level influence, and contributes to strengthening commissioning standards, testing approaches, vendor performance, schedules, and lessons learned across the region.

The Senior Manager will oversee commissioning strategy and execution across multiple projects and facilities, support operational readiness, address risks and deficiencies, and communicate progress and readiness to customers and internal stakeholders. The role also leads external commissioning providers and other partners, improves processes and standards, and contributes data and insights to performance reporting. Regional travel of up to 50% is required.

The role is offered in the United States at the Dallas Infomart Office, Redwood City Office, or Chicago Office. The targeted annual base pay ranges are $136,000–$204,000 in Dallas, $163,000–$245,000 in Redwood City, and $150,000–$224,000 in Chicago. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position. Benefits include an Employee Assistance Program, insurance plans, retirement plan contributions, accrued paid time off, and paid holidays.

Requirements

• Typically 7 or more years of data center commissioning experience or equivalent experience in comparable mission-critical environments.
• Typically 3 or more years of leadership experience in a mission-critical, construction, engineering, or commissioning environment.
• Strong knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems and commissioning methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing commissioning plans, Functional Performance Testing, and Factory Acceptance Testing.
• Experience leading external commissioning providers, consultants, contractors, and equipment vendors.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting technical information, project status, risks, and recommendations to customers and senior stakeholders.
• Strong judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive issues to resolution in complex project environments.
• Ability to travel regionally up to 50%.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute commissioning plans and schedules across multiple data center projects and facilities.
• Lead commissioning activities for new-build and live mission-critical environments.
• Integrate commissioning requirements into project plans and milestones in partnership with Construction and Operations teams.
• Manage the regional short- and medium-term commissioning pipeline to support resource and capacity planning.
• Develop electrical and mechanical Functional Performance Test procedures and Factory Acceptance Test procedures.
• Maintain commissioning logs, equipment checklists, test documentation, and project tracking tools.
• Support commissioning project budgeting and forecasting.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen Critical Environment and commissioning programs.
• Ensure infrastructure and critical systems are thoroughly tested and ready for safe, reliable operations.
• Identify commissioning risks, deficiencies, and testing challenges early and drive them toward resolution.
• Track equipment startup and testing trends and partner with vendors to improve future performance.
• Translate lessons learned into practical improvements for future projects.
• Serve as a senior commissioning contact for customers throughout the commissioning lifecycle.
• Present commissioning progress, milestones, risks, and readiness status to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Partner with project teams to support Ready for Sales commitments.
• Lead resolution and communication of commissioning-related customer escalations.
• Develop standardized commissioning scopes, schedules, and testing approaches based on project and customer requirements.
• Improve commissioning processes, tools, standards, and execution using project data and lessons learned.
• Provide internal and external reporting on commissioning progress, risks, milestones, and project readiness.
• Prepare test procedures, commissioning reports, functional checklists, deficiency tracking, and operational recommendations.
• Contribute commissioning data and insights to analytics, metrics, and performance reporting.
• Communicate complex technical information to support business and project decisions.
• Lead and manage commissioning consultants and other external resources.
• Develop project-specific commissioning RFPs, manage bid clarifications, evaluate proposals, and recommend consultant selections.
• Establish vendor performance expectations and KPIs.
• Conduct vendor performance and quarterly business reviews focused on quality, delivery, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Lead commissioning meetings and drive accountability for actions, risks, decisions, and project milestones.
• Facilitate lessons-learned reviews and implement improvements for future projects.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program available to all employees.
• Health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans for employees and eligible family members.
• Retirement plan to which the employee and Equinix may contribute.
• Accrued paid time off.
• Paid holidays.
• Employees are eligible for bonus; equity may be offered depending on the position.

What This Job Offers

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