Senior Commissioning Manager

Senior Commissioning Manager

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Commissioning Manager to support a high-profile program of projects for a US multinational technology company. This individual will be responsible for coordinating commissioning activities for multiple concurrent projects, with a strong focus on tracking and reporting status to owner stakeholders validating that clients requirements are implemented, satisfied and documented. The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, bring deep technical expertise from working in the field, strong leadership, high level organizational skills with a proven background in developing managing and continually improving building commissioning process for significant and complex construction programs.

This position will be remote within the US and require regular travel to various client sites.

• Serve as client facing building commissioning subject matter expert.
• Develop, manage, coordinate, validate and document commissioning process for multiple concurrent projects.
• Effectively manage and collaborate with project stakeholders.
• Effective communication across our internal teams to ensure efficiency and consistent delivery to the client across all projects in the program.
• Can analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slip.
• Verify that effective project governance, processes and systems are utilized.
• Ensure consistent application of best practice on all projects.
• Production of formal project status reports and other reports as required.
• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design and construction standards are being applied correctly.
• Manage the flow of project information between the project team through regular meetings and written communications.
• Forecast and update key project milestones.
• Support development of Owners Project requirements. Review and comment on Basis of Design provided by Architect / Engineer.
• Manage and monitor local design teams in accordance with commissioning criteria - review designs at each stage of development and comment.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
• Rapid response to RFIs from the field.
• Provide expertise to support cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance where required.
• Independent review of reports, submittals, timelines and costs from architects, contractors and suppliers.
• Identify, document and track commissioning issues actively managing satisfactory resolution.
• Client management - assist in developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking - provides advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients’ objectives and business objectives.
• Knowledge management - ensure that key information and learnings generated from each project is captured.
• Process improvement - Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

• Oversee, coordinate and document all phases of commissioning from preconstruction through 1 year post occupation including design coordination, procurement, installation, and closeout commissioning activities.
• Ensure alignment with project goals, client expectations, and quality standards.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Develop and update as necessary commissioning program documentation including commissioning specifications, commissioning plan, review reports, field reports, pre functional checks, functional performance tests, project commissioning reports, etc.
• Maintain clear communication with clients, designers, contractors, and internal stakeholders.
• Oversee and report on installation status in the field against the General Contractor’s schedule and report on this daily and as required by the owner
• Review and provide feedback against the GC contract schedule to mitigate and expose opportunities to avoid any impacts to the critical path.
• Provide Cx subject matter expertise in MEP systems, including HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, Monitoring and Automated Building/Energy Management systems.
• Validate compliance with design specifications, codes, and industry standards on field walks as part of QA/QC responsibilities.
• Identify project risks and report feedback on mitigation strategies to the General Contractor and owner
• Validate that all MEP work meets quality and safety standards.
• Manage method of procedure (MOP) review, feedback and execution.
• Maintain/contribute to site progress photo logs and reporting.
• Coordinate, lead, direct and document functional acceptance testing of MEP systems.
• Develop and submit the project commissioning records
• Assist in managing the closeout of all CX issues identified in the field with project stakeholders. Identify, document and track…