Principal Data Center Commissioning Lead - Saline, Mi

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · MI

Lead commissioning readiness and execution for a GW-scale data center campus as the owner’s representative. Oversee Developer, GC, and their CxA to embed Oracle’s standards, security, and acceptance criteria. Orchestrate integrated commissioning plans, align milestones, and drive cross-functional coordination across systems, ensuring evidence-based turnover and operational reliability. Own governance, risk, and change control for commissioning scope, enforce QA/QC and documentation requirements. Partner with technical leads to resolve field issues, protect critical path, and deliver compliant handovers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Orchestrates commissioning readiness and execution for assigned buildings/blocks, ensuring activities align with business objectives, Oracle standards, and industry codes.
  2. Builds productive relationships with Developer, GC, CxA, A/E, and vendors; communicates expectations, progress, and risks with clear, timely updates.
  3. Develops and maintains commissioning scripts, ITPs, and checklists for assigned systems with guidance from senior/principal leads.
  4. Monitors KPIs during testing (ITP pass rates, defect density, retest cycles); analyzes trends and recommends corrective actions.
  5. Leads resolution of non-routine issues within assigned scope; proposes options with schedule/quality implications and drives to decision.

Skills

Required

  • Commissioning leadership
  • Data center infrastructure
  • Project management
  • Risk management
  • Quality assurance
  • Technical documentation
  • Cross-functional team collaboration
  • Vendor management
  • Issue resolution
  • Compliance

Nice to have

  • Electrical systems
  • Mechanical systems
  • Controls systems
  • Low-voltage systems
  • FAT/SAT/IST planning
  • Mentoring junior staff

What the JD emphasized

  • owner’s representative
  • embedding Oracle’s standards
  • evidence-based turnover
  • operational reliability
  • governance, risk, and change control
  • QA/QC and documentation requirements
  • resolve field issues quickly
  • protect critical path
  • predictable, compliant handovers