Regional Commissioning Director

Regional Commissioning Director
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centres across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ consecutive quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of nearly 10,000 companies, including 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and IT service providers in over 26 countries spanning five continents.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

**Job Summary**:Responsible for the planning and coordinating of the commissioning for large-scale greenfield data centres and retrofit live data centres.

**Responsibilities**

Project Management
- Builds and implements multi-facility, standards-based commissioning plans and schedules
- Provides input and suggestions on new and existing Critical Environment Programs
- Communicates effectively with both business operations and construction managers
- Responsible for regional, short
- to medium-term pipeline management to advise resource planning
- Liaises with internal construction managers and external general contractors on the planning and execution of all commissioning activities
- Maintains commissioning logs, equipment checklist, and other tools to supervise commissioning projects
- Responsible to the construction project manager for input into the project budget for all commissioning activities
- Develops electrical and mechanical Functional Performance Test procedures and Factory Acceptance Test Procedures

Customer Interface
- Issues customer-facing reports
- Interacts with and presents to key customers on progress against commissioning plans and achievement of Ready for Sales (RFS) dates
- Acts as point of contact for customer escalations throughout the commissioning process

Process Management
- Follows all commissioning processes and escalates any potential improvements to senior management
- Develops standardized schedules and commissioning scopes based on specific customer contract requirements

Reporting
- Responsible for all internal and external progress reporting for all projects during the commissioning phase, in coordination with construction project manager
- Prepares commissioning test procedures and reports
- Writes comprehensive reports that include recommendations for optimizing building operations, functional checklists, list of deficiencies, equipment operation and maintenance manuals
- Responsible for collating historical data regarding specific equipment start-up and testing challenges and reporting back to all Owner Furnished Contractor Installed (OFCI) equipment vendors
- Provides input into data analytics/metrics reporting

Vendor Management
- Undertakes quarterly business reviews with vendors to review performance and ways to improve interaction
- Responsible for production of project-specific commissioning RFPs and responding to bid clarifications
- Responsible for levelling and recommending commissioning consultant award
- Leads and manages external resources
- Schedules and advises periodic commissioning meetings
- Determines vendor KPIs and conducts lessons learned reviews

**Qualifications**
- 7+ years of data centre commissioning experience preferred
- 3+ years leadership experience in a mission-critical environment preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering / Mechanical Engineering preferred

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