Hyperscale Data Center Commissioning Lead

C2O Americas is Hiring:
Commissioning Manager – Data Centers / Central Texas

Position: Commissioning Manager – Data Centers
Employment Type: Project-Based / Full-Time Assignment
Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. No visa sponsorship available.

C2O Americas is seeking an experienced Commissioning Manager to support a newly developed hyperscale data center. This position will be embedded within the Owner/Operator project management team and will provide leadership across commissioning planning, field execution, system readiness, integrated systems testing, and final turnover to operations.

The successful candidate will work closely with project leadership, construction teams, trade contractors, vendors, design teams, commissioning specialists, tenant representatives, and operations stakeholders to ensure systems are completed, tested, documented, and handed over safely, efficiently, and in alignment with project schedules.

This is a key leadership role supporting a large-scale mission-critical data center program and requires strong technical expertise, commissioning experience, stakeholder coordination, and the ability to drive accountability across multiple disciplines.

• Lead day-to-day commissioning planning and execution activities for assigned data center facilities and infrastructure.

• Drive commissioning readiness from construction completion through system testing, integrated systems testing, documentation closeout, and final operational handover.

• Coordinate with project stakeholders, general contractors, trade contractors, vendors, commissioning engineers, design teams, tenant representatives, and operations personnel.

• Develop, review, and manage commissioning plans, test procedures, readiness checklists, schedules, reports, risk registers, and turnover documentation.

• Support systemization, turnover sequencing, and commissioning work planning aligned with construction progress and project milestones.

• Lead commissioning meetings, readiness reviews, test planning sessions, constraint reviews, and issue-resolution discussions.

• Manage commissioning activities across electrical, mechanical, controls, fire/life safety, communications, BMS, EPMS, DCIM, and other mission-critical systems.

• Ensure commissioning procedures and test scripts are reviewed, approved, executed, documented, and closed out according to project requirements.

• Track deficiencies, constraints, risks, retesting activities, and issue resolution through final acceptance.

• Coordinate vendor and OEM support for testing, troubleshooting, training, and final acceptance activities.

• Verify turnover documentation is complete, accurate, and ready for operational handover.

• Support integrated systems testing, including normal operations, failure scenarios, recovery sequences, alarm validation, controls testing, and facility resilience verification.

• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with HSE, Permit-to-Work (PTW), Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), energized work requirements, and site safety procedures.

• Provide regular progress updates, look-ahead planning, readiness reporting, and escalation support to project leadership.

• 15+ years of commissioning, startup, or project delivery experience within mission-critical, industrial, power generation, or large commercial facilities.

• Previous data center commissioning experience strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience leading commissioning teams and coordinating multidisciplinary commissioning efforts.

• Strong understanding of electrical, mechanical, controls, and fire/life safety systems commonly used in hyperscale data centers.

• Experience with medium-voltage and low-voltage electrical…