Lease Commissioning Manager - Phoenix, AZ
About The Position
Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) delivers datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft’s cloud business. The Engineering Procurement & Construction organization manages large-scale, multidisciplinary datacenter construction and lease projects. The CO+I Commissioning team oversees end-to-end delivery of new datacenter capacity through program management and construction processes. The Lease Commissioning Manager (LCxM) works with data center architects, engineers, construction managers, network engineers, operations teams, and finance teams to improve capacity delivery. The role manages commissioning projects primarily in the Phoenix, Arizona region and supports other commissioning projects across the Americas. It is accountable for delivery against scope, schedule, and budget and for ensuring projects meet Microsoft’s commissioning standards. Relocation to Phoenix is required, and travel is required.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and at least 2 years of technical engineering experience; or a master’s degree in one of these fields and at least 4 years; or a bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and at least 5 years; or at least 12 years of relevant technical engineering experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Relocation to Phoenix, AZ is required.
- Travel is required.
Nice To Haves
- Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and at least 4 years of technical engineering experience; or a master’s degree in one of these fields and at least 7 years; or a bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and at least 9 years.
- At least 5 years of experience working on data center projects.
- Project management experience.
- Construction Quality Assurance / Quality Control (QA/QC) experience.
- Ability to develop and write detailed commissioning scripts.
- Issue identification and resolution management experience.
- Industry-recognized commissioning certification.
- OSHA 30 or equivalent qualification.
- NFPA-70E.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Visio, MS Project, and MS Teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage commissioning projects in the Phoenix, AZ region, with secondary responsibility for other CO+I commissioning projects in the Americas.
- Manage the contracted Commissioning Agent assigned to data center construction projects in the Phoenix region.
- Create and maintain best practices for identifying and incorporating quality, cost-effective solutions.
- Develop, maintain, and enforce commissioning best practices across lease projects.
- Review and approve Lease Statements of Qualification (SoQs).
- Conduct construction site inspections to review QA/QC and commissioning processes.
- Drive the project commissioning process, including scope and schedule.
- Review construction progress, QA/QC, commissioning progress, issues, and KPI metrics, and report to management.
- Coordinate vendor project managers’ meetings and activities, including integration of lessons learned.
- Manage client representatives and partners to define and align scope, schedule, and budget.
- Attend owner/architect/contractor (OAC) and other project meetings, and report as necessary.
- Report project progress on scope, schedule, and budget weekly or as required.
- Develop, manage, and report on commissioning process scope and schedule for CO+I projects.
- Report the commissioning process to management regularly and work independently in support of the CO+I Program.
- Manage data center commissioning project delivery strategy in alignment with the CO+I roadmap strategy.
- Refine practices and policies, develop methods and techniques for solutions, and develop commissioning procedures.
- Provide input to long-term delivery strategy and incorporate requirements into project execution plans.
- Provide internal stakeholders with input on vendor oversight and commissioning performance management.
- Prepare SoQs and other project approval tools and templates.
- Ensure compliance with commissioning exhibits and other contractual requirements in lease agreements.
- Relocate to Phoenix, AZ and travel as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
