Commissioning Manager North America

WHY YOU WOULD CHOOSE AB

WHY YOU WOULD CHOOSE AB In AB we work in a multicultural context with over 1,500 employees in offices in 22 countries around the world between Europe, North America and South America. Our commitment is to continue to look for a better way to write our future in an even more sustainable way, involving all our partners and starting from the desire to establish a relationship with the candidate that respects diversity, equity, through a recruiting process free from prejudice and discrimination.

Sustainability is not only our core business but also our way of working. We have technologies and software that allow us to optimize the time and effort of the selection process by allowing the constant updating of applications and that improve the  candidate experience , a process of mutual knowledge in which the candidate expresses his or her professional and personal ambitions that the Talent Acquisition experts match with the company's professional opportunities, to immediately establish a transparent relationship of comparison and orientation.

Location

Project Sites (US) + local office support

Employment Type

Full-time | Site-based (≥50% on site)

Reports To

• Operational:
  Construction Manager North America
• Functional:
  Extra EU Logistics Coordinator

The Commissioning Manager is a senior leadership position responsible for the end-to-end management of commissioning activities across AB Energy USA's portfolio of CHP and industrial energy projects.

The role encompasses the strategic planning, organization, execution, and continuous improvement of all commissioning operations, ensuring projects are safely started, fully tested, optimized, and successfully handed over to customers.

Beyond project execution, the Commissioning Manager will play a key role in building and developing a scalable commissioning organization, establishing procedures, methodologies, resource planning models, technical standards, and performance metrics to support the company's long-term growth.

This position requires a unique combination of technical expertise, operational leadership, organizational development, and customer-facing capabilities.

Commissioning Leadership & Organizational Development

• Support the Construction Manager to establish, structure, and lead the Commissioning Department within AB Energy USA.
• Recruit, develop, mentor, and manage commissioning engineers, technicians, and field specialists.
• Define organizational roles, responsibilities, competency frameworks, and career development paths.
• Develop commissioning strategies aligned with business growth objectives and EPC execution needs.
• Implement standardized processes, procedures, checklists, reporting systems, and commissioning governance models.
• Build a culture of technical excellence, accountability, safety, and continuous improvement.

Resource Planning & Operational Management

• Develop short-, medium, and long-term commissioning resource plans, to be validated with the Construction Manager.
• Forecast manpower requirements, technical competencies, vehicle fleets, tools, instrumentation, and training needs.
• Manage department budgets, operational expenditures, and investments.
• Ensure efficient allocation of resources across multiple simultaneous projects.
• Monitor departmental KPIs, productivity, utilization, and performance metrics, reporting to the Construction Manager.

End-to-End Commissioning Management

• Lead commissioning activities from mechanical completion through final customer acceptance, in coordination and reporting to the PM of the project.
• Coordinate pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up, performance testing, and handover phases.
• Ensure commissioning execution is aligned with engineering, procurement, construction, and project schedules defined by the PM.
• Drive commissioning readiness reviews and project risk assessments.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of technical issues during start-up and testing phases.
• Ensure successful achievement of contractual performance guarantees and project acceptance criteria.

CHP & Industrial Energy Systems Commissioning

• Oversee commissioning of:
• CHP (Combined Heat and…