Project Quality & Commissioning Manager

Function

Quality & Commissioning Management

Director of Quality & Commissioning Management - USA

Data Center / Mission-Critical EPC

Lead the integrated Quality and Commissioning (QCx) function for a major data centre project, with accountability for defining, implementing and overseeing the quality and commissioning strategy throughout the EPC lifecycle and commissioning Levels 1-5. The role establishes the project QCx organisation, governance, plans, resources, schedules, controls and performance reporting, ensuring construction quality, system completion, commissioning and handover are aligned with contractual requirements, Owner/Tenant expectations and project standards.

The position is site-based during execution and acts as the principal QCx interface with project leadership, the client and key stakeholders.

• Define and govern the integrated project Quality and Commissioning strategy, organization, execution framework and Owner/Tenant requirements.
• Lead the Project Quality Lead and Project Commissioning Lead, ensuring adequate resources, competencies, independence and coordinated execution.
• Integrate quality, systems completion and Levels 1-5 commissioning activities into project planning, procurement, construction and turnover.
• Approve and oversee QCx plans, procedures, documentation, readiness gates, audits, KPIs, risk controls and corrective actions.
• Provide project leadership with objective performance, risk and handover-readiness reporting.
• Translate contractual, technical, regulatory, Owner/Tenant and quality-management requirements into the Project Quality Plan, Project Commissioning Plan and supporting execution controls.
• Develop the QCx organization chart, responsibility matrix, staffing plan, competency requirements, mobilization sequence and budget inputs with project leadership.
• Define the project systemisation, completion and turnover philosophy, including system boundaries, Levels 1-5 governance, acceptance criteria and handover strategy.
• Ensure QCx deliverables, inspections, testing, vendor activities and readiness milestones are integrated into the project master schedule with appropriate logic and resources.
• Provide proposal, constructability, commissionability, procurement and execution input from early project phases through final acceptance.
• Establish governance for ITPs, inspections, test packs, nonconformities, punch lists, commissioning issues, turnover dossiers and controlled documented information.
• Chair integrated QCx governance and milestone-readiness reviews; ensure systems do not advance without satisfied prerequisites or formally accepted residual risk.
• Coordinate Engineering, Procurement, Supplier Quality, Construction, HSE, Planning, Document Control, Commercial and Operations interfaces affecting quality or commissioning.
• Serve as the senior project interface with the Owner/Tenant, Commissioning Authority, designers, subcontractors, vendors, testing agencies and third parties on QCx matters.
• Approve risk-based audit, surveillance and readiness-review programs and ensure findings, NCRs and corrective actions are effectively closed.
• Define and monitor quality and commissioning KPIs, analyze trends, escalate systemic issues and sponsor recovery or improvement plans.
• Ensure lessons learned, recurring-defect prevention, training and best practices are captured and applied across the project.
• Confirm that construction-quality evidence supports commissioning prerequisites and that commissioning evidence supports safe, complete and traceable final handover.
• Mentor QCx personnel and maintain a collaborative, inclusive and accountable working environment across the project team.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or related Engineering discipline; extensive directly relevant professional experience and additional technical qualifications may be accepted in lieu of the stated degree requirement.
• Minimum 10+ years of Quality and Commissioning management experience on complex EPC or design-build projects, including leadership of multidisciplinary teams.
• Required…