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Electrical Commissioning Lead
OpenAI UK Ltd · 🇺🇸 San Francisco
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About the role
About the Role The Electrical Commissioning Lead owns electrical commissioning planning, readiness, quality coordination, and test execution oversight for the project. This role ensures electrical systems are inspectable, testable, safe to energize, and ready for coordinated functional and integrated systems testing. Reports to the Commissioning Project Lead and partners closely with electrical contractors, equipment vendors, design/engineering teams, the mechanical commissioning lead, controls stakeholders, and vendor field/test engineers. Location: 100% Onsite In Texas or Georgia Key Responsibilities - 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 for commissionability and risk. - Coordinate electrical QA/QC inspections with contractors and vendor field/test engineers, including installation checks, pre-functional readiness, deficiency capture, and closeout tracking. - Own electrical commissioning procedure development and review, including startup, energization readiness, functional testing, failure mode validation, controls interfaces, and integrated systems testing inputs. - Coordinate with equipment vendors on factory/site acceptance requirements, startup support, test prerequisites, documentation packages, and vendor participation during critical tests. - Support energization planning, switching and safety coordination, access sequencing, temporary conditions, witness points, and hold points. - Lead discipline-level review of electrical test results, deficiencies, corrective actions, retest requirements, and acceptance evidence. - Maintain electrical commissioning dashboards and status inputs for the Commissioning Project Lead, including risk items, resource needs, test readiness, and issue aging. - Partner with the Mechanical Commissioning Lead on cross-discipline dependencies, including controls, life safety interfaces, heat load testing, power-to-mechanical coordination, and integrated testing scenarios. - Support turnover by confirming electrical documentation, as-built evidence, test records, and outstanding issue disposition are complete and usable by operations. 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 as applicable to the project scope. - 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. Preferred Skills - 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 equival