Director, Commissioning

The Director, Commissioning is responsible for leading the commissioning function across Cyrus One's global data center development portfolio, including new construction, campus expansions, acquisitions, and strategic infrastructure initiatives. This role provides leadership for commissioning strategy, operational readiness, quality standards, staffing, and program execution while ensuring projects progress from construction completion through testing, turnover, and operational handoff.

• Lead the commissioning function across new data center construction, campus expansions, acquisitions, and major infrastructure projects.
• Establish and execute commissioning strategy, resource planning, staffing models, organizational growth plans, and project coverage requirements.
• Manage the commissioning team and support future organizational expansion through the addition of Commissioning Managers and other specialized roles.
• Provide leadership oversight for all phases of commissioning activities, including testing, integrated systems testing, substantial completion, turnover, and operational readiness.
• Ensure commissioning activities align with project schedules, design intent, owner requirements, construction milestones, testing objectives, and operations expectations.
• Review project readiness, resource allocation, schedule impacts, risk factors, testing progress, issue resolution efforts, and turnover activities.
• Escalate significant project risks, staffing concerns, quality issues, schedule impacts, or operational readiness concerns to executive leadership and project stakeholders.
• Establish consistent expectations for project execution, documentation, communication, issue management, reporting, and turnover activities across the commissioning portfolio.
• Monitor department performance and implement metrics, reporting, and best practices to support successful project delivery.

• Serve as the owner representative for commissioning activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure clear accountability between Cyrus One, third-party commissioning providers, contractors, equipment vendors, consultants, and project teams.
• Reinforce and maintain the distinction between Cyrus One's oversight function and the execution responsibilities of third-party Commissioning Agents.
• Review commissioning plans, testing procedures, issue logs, test results, reports, and turnover documentation to ensure compliance with project objectives and quality standards.
• Hold commissioning partners accountable to scope, schedule, documentation requirements, testing quality, issue resolution, and project closeout commitments.
• Drive alignment and resolution when commissioning concerns impact project schedules, quality outcomes, closeout activities, or operational readiness.

• Develop and continuously improve commissioning standards, templates, testing protocols, checklists, lessons learned, workflows, trackers, and governance processes.
• Promote consistency, repeatability, and scalability across the commissioning function.
• Lead department planning initiatives to support future business growth and increasing project volume.
• Support hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, mentoring, performance development, succession planning, and retention efforts within the commissioning organization.
• Foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, field engagement, communication, and continuous improvement.

• Own overall commissioning closeout expectations across the project portfolio.
• Ensure project teams maintain accountability for collection, review, organization, and delivery of commissioning documentation and turnover materials.
• Partner with operations teams to facilitate effective turnover and operational readiness activities.
• Establish and maintain standards for document control, file management, record retention, naming conventions, and project closeout workflows.
• Drive timely completion of commissioning deliverables, issue resolution, turnover documentation, and final closeout packages.
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