Electrical Commissioning Lead

The role

The Electrical Commissioning Lead owns electrical commissioning planning, readiness, quality coordination, and test execution oversight. This person ensures electrical systems are inspectable, testable, safe to energize, and ready for coordinated functional and integrated systems testing.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the electrical commissioning scope, readiness criteria, inspection strategy, and test execution plan.
• Review electrical design packages, specifications, submittals, method statements, sequence assumptions, and testing requirements.
• Coordinate electrical QA/QC inspections with contractors and vendor field/test engineers.
• Own electrical commissioning procedure development and review.
• Coordinate with equipment vendors on factory/site acceptance requirements, startup support, and test prerequisites.
• Support energization planning, switching and safety coordination, access sequencing, and witness points.
• Lead discipline-level review of electrical test results, deficiencies, corrective actions, and retest requirements.
• Maintain electrical commissioning dashboards and status inputs.
• Partner with the Mechanical Commissioning Lead on cross-discipline dependencies.
• Support turnover by confirming electrical documentation, as-built evidence, and test records.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of electrical commissioning, electrical construction, field engineering, startup, testing, or owner representative experience on complex technical infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of electrical distribution, backup or standby power systems, grounding and bonding, electrical controls/interfaces, protection concepts, and safe energization workflows.
• Experience reviewing commissioning specifications, inspection checklists, functional test scripts, vendor startup procedures, and test reports.
• Ability to coordinate field execution across contractors, equipment vendors, QA/QC teams, commissioning partners, and project leadership.
• Strong practical judgment around readiness, safety, sequencing, test prerequisites, and risk escalation.
• Comfort working in construction environments with evolving schedules and multiple parallel work fronts.
• Clear technical writing skills and discipline in maintaining logs, test evidence, issue records, and decision history.
• Ability to be present at the project site during critical electrical installation, startup, energization, and testing windows.

Nice to have

• Owner-side or commissioning agent experience on mission-critical, utility-scale, industrial, manufacturing, data center, or other high-reliability facilities.
• Professional engineering, electrical license, commissioning credential, or equivalent field qualification.
• Experience with integrated systems testing and coordination between electrical, mechanical, controls, and operations teams.
• Familiarity with digital issue tracking, commissioning management platforms, schedule tools, and field reporting workflows.
• PE license
• Commissioning certification eg. QCxP, CxA, BCxP, CCP

About the company

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