Pre-Construction & Design Assurance

• Lead commissioning input into bid and pre-construction planning, owning scope, assumptions, risks and deliverables for each opportunity.
• Own commissioning design reviews and readiness, ensuring systems are commissionable, maintainable and aligned to operational requirements.

Contractor, Vendor & CxA Management

• Support management and coordination of contractor and vendor commissioning teams, holding them accountable for method statements, ITPs, test documentation, safe systems of work and schedule adherence.
• Manage and coordinate CxA, holding them accountable for all deliverables as defined in the Cx Playbook.

Testing, Validation & Acceptance

• Deliver the commissioning test framework and documentation set, including L1–L5 test scripts, L6 checklists, test records, and commissioning dossiers for client acceptance.
• Lead and witness FAT and SAT activities, manage defects/punch lists, and drive closure to achieve acceptance criteria.

Handover & Operational Readiness

• Manage engagement with Operations to ensure handover readiness, including training needs, O&M documentation completeness, and smooth transition to live operations.

Operational & Technical Leadership

• Lead and/or support operational programmes, platforms, and workstreams as directed by Senior Management.
• Provide technical input to initiatives aimed at improving system resilience, availability, and fault tolerance.

Team management responsibilities & key relationships

• Owns and manages key relationships across Development, Construction, Project Management, Design, Commercial, Vendors/Contractors, CxA and Operations.
• May line-manage and/or provide functional leadership to commissioning engineers and specialist commissioning resources (internal and external) depending on project scale.

Skills, Qualifications, and Experience

Skills

• Communication: Own and demonstrate the capability to engage and communicate effectively (spoken and written) across diverse stakeholder groups. (R)
• Collaboration: Lead collaborative ways of working to deliver outcomes and create and/or contribute to wider team empowerment and value. (R)
• Innovation: Drive problem solving to identify opportunities to responsibly improve ways of working and/or outcomes within your scope of influence. (R)
• Continuous Improvement: Own the continuous development of your skills, experience and output, and actively develop others to build personal and wider business value. (R)
• Leadership: Lead by example; own your impact and accountability and bring others with you on the journey. (R)

Knowledge and Skills

• Significant technical experience in Data Centres with a Mechanical/Electrical building services background
• Excellent technical knowledge of international design codes and standards in particular ASHRAE
• A desire to set the sustainability agenda through design engineering
• A thorough understanding of the construction process from pre-construction/tender stages through to handover
• The ability to challenge the status quo
• Good interpersonal and team building skills
• Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills
• Working knowledge of building management systems and controls
• Excellent IT skills (MS Office, MS Project, a good understanding of CAD (AutoCAD, AutoDESK, REVIT and other 3D modelling software) would be an advantage but not essential.

Qualifications and Experience

• Ideally a master’s degree in mechanical/electrical engineering or several years equivalent experience.
• Experience of systems commissioning
• Experience in Data centres from Colo to Hyperscale.
• Experience of reviewing the design from a commissionable perspective for datacentres, pharmaceutical facilities, hospitals and large distribution centres/warehouses or other similar projects – Desirable
• Reviewing Factory tests method statements, attending and controlling Factory tests.
• Professional membership of an appropriate professional body – Highly desirable

Working Conditions

• Remote working/working from home
• Experience of working within a matrix organisation.
• Driving licence
• Occasional international travel

Note

The successful candidate will be required to complete pre-employment screening to BS7858:2019, or national equivalent. (Covers: Confirmation of identity, legal right to work, financial probity, criminal history and associations with proscribed organisations). It is the policy of Pure DC that all individuals have a responsibility for the security and protection of company’s Information and IT Resources over which they have control, according to their role.