Commissioning Senior Manager - Substation

Commissioning Senior Manager - Substation

Fleet Data Centers designs, builds, commissions, and operates mega-scale data center campuses. Fleet provides its customers with flexibility and predictability to meet their upside demand forecasts, addressing a key need in the market as traditional leased models are struggling to keep pace with the demand for new Cloud and AI infrastructure. Fleet is led by a team of industry veterans that have already made a lasting imprint on the evolution of global digital infrastructure and are committed and uniquely capable of up leveling data center development scale and operations in the face of rising demand.

Fleet is well positioned to bring in-house design, engineering, commissioning, and operational capabilities to collaborate with customers on tailored solutions for campuses of 500MW+. This unique model enables Fleet to provide the world’s largest and most sophisticated customers with a seamless extension of their own data center fleets with constant access to design innovation. Fleet is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with satellite offices in Seattle, WA and Arlington, VA.

Substation Commissioning Senior Manager leads the end-to-end commissioning lifecycle for all mechanical and electrical systems associated with site substation(s) and supporting buildings, ensuring these are installed, tested, verified, and handed over to operations to meet performance, reliability, and safety requirements. This role integrates design intent with field execution, orchestrates multi-disciplinary teams, manages risk, and delivers auditable commissioning evidence that enables on-time, on-budget, and right-first-time facility readiness.

The successful candidate will need to possess a strong understanding of NETA/ANSI standards, high-voltage medium-voltage, and low-voltage equipment, power transformers, switch gear, instrument transformers, relays, DC power systems, protection and control systems, SCADA integration, substation electrical testing, grounding systems, and electrical safety protocols. In addition, they will need to lead multi-disciplinary teams under tight deadlines and high-pressure conditions, while maintaining accurate commissioning records and turnover packages shared with Fleet leadership.

This person will attend all commissioning meetings, track schedule adherence, issue closure rates, and system performance metrics.

The successful candidate will have experience and practical expertise in the following:

• Review Basis of Design (BoD), drawings, specifications, and submittals for commissioning requirements and testability. Documents shall include but not be limited to single line diagram, three-line diagram, control diagrams, protection and control schemes, SCADA, Short Circuit and Coordination Study (SCCS), Arc Flash Study, etc.
• Review and collaborate on protection and control schemes, SCADA logic, and relay inputs, outputs, settings, and logic with design and controls teams.
• Review and collaborate on the 3rd Party electrical testing requirements with the design and construction teams; ensure all project requirements and expectations are met.
• Development and/or assist with the development and upkeep of the Commissioning Plan (scope, phasing, staffing, RASIC, tools, documentation control, quality gates).
• Define substation commissioning schedule aligned with construction and turnover milestones; identify long-lead equipment and factory witness tests.
• Develop and/or assist with the development of Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 commissioning checklists.
• Develop and/or assist in the development of Level 4 and Level 5 (if applicable) commissioning test scripts.

• Be responsible for commissioning team communications and updates, including leading or co-leading meetings.
• Oversee Site Acceptance, Installation, and Pre-energization inspections for substation equipment.
• Oversee and/or lead first time energization, pre-functional checklists (PFCs), start-up acceptance testing (SAT), and functional test scripts (FTs) for substation equipment and systems and support buildings across all modes (normal,…