Title: Senior Commissioning Manager
Location: Arizona
Duration: 12+ month contract
Pay: $105-$120/hour, DOE
Schedule: 5x10
Start Date: August
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Commissioning Manager to provide program-level leadership for commissioning activities on a large-scale mission-critical construction project.
This is a highly visible, client-facing position responsible for maintaining an overall understanding of commissioning progress, risks, milestones, and dependencies across the project. The Senior Commissioning Manager will serve as a liaison between the owner, construction leadership, commissioning teams, project management, quality, safety, subcontractors, vendors, and other project stakeholders.
This position will support and provide direction to individual commissioning leads, promote consistency across the project, and ensure stakeholders remain informed regarding overall commissioning status, upcoming activities, major constraints, and required decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary client-facing representative for project-wide commissioning activities.
- Maintain high-level visibility into commissioning progress across multiple buildings, systems, and workstreams.
- Support and provide direction to Commissioning Building Managers and discipline leads.
- Coordinate communication between commissioning, construction, project management, quality, safety, subcontractors, vendors, and the owner.
- Ensure individual commissioning plans align with the overall construction schedule, turnover sequence, and customer milestones.
- Identify risks, conflicts, and dependencies that could impact multiple buildings or systems.
- Communicate commissioning status, upcoming milestones, major issues, and required decisions to project leadership.
- Monitor commissioning readiness, energization activities, startup sequencing, documentation status, and turnover planning.
- Coordinate resolution of issues involving field teams, vendors, subcontractors, quality, construction, and commissioning personnel.
- Review building-level progress and consolidate information into an overall project commissioning outlook.
- Support planning for functional testing, system startup, turnover, and integrated testing activities.
- Promote consistent commissioning processes, reporting expectations, and issue management across the project.
- Participate in owner meetings, project leadership reviews, commissioning coordination meetings, and milestone readiness discussions.
- Translate technical commissioning information into clear updates for non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide temporary coverage for a building-level commissioning management position when needed.
Required Experience
- Senior-level commissioning management experience on large-scale data center, mission-critical, industrial, manufacturing, or similarly complex construction projects.
- Experience overseeing commissioning across multiple buildings, systems, disciplines, or project areas.
- Strong understanding of the full commissioning lifecycle, from installation readiness through startup, testing, and turnover.
- Prior experience in a client-facing or owner-facing commissioning leadership role.
- Experience leading or supporting commissioning managers, building leads, discipline leads, subcontractors, or vendor teams.
- Strong understanding of how commissioning integrates with construction, quality, safety, scheduling, project management, and turnover.
- Experience coordinating electrical, mechanical, controls, vendor, and subcontractor activities.
- Ability to identify project-level risks and communicate their impact to leadership.
- Strong communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Ability to communicate detailed technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Experience
- Prior data center or mission-critical commissioning experience.
- Experience overseeing multiple buildings or commissioning workstreams simultaneously.
- Familiarity with complex electrical, mechanical, controls, and life-safety systems.
- Experience supporting energization, system startup, functional testing, and integrated systems testing.
- Experience working with commissioning management or project documentation software.
- Previous experience as a Senior Commissioning Manager, Commissioning Program Manager, Campus Commissioning Manager, Commissioning Director, or Lead Commissioning Manager.
Apply today if you have experience as a: Senior Commissioning Manager, Commissioning Manager, Commissioning Program Manager, Campus Commissioning Manager, Lead Commissioning Manager, Commissioning Director, Mission Critical Commissioning Manager, Data Center Commissioning Manager, Program Commissioning Manager, Commissioning Building Manager, Senior Cx Manager, Commissioning Lead, Project Commissioning Manager, Integrated Testing Manager, or Owner's Commissioning Manager.
FootBridge is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We make employment decisions based on qualifications and business needs, without discrimination on any basis, and we welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.
Pay: $105.00 - $120.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
