Commissioning Engineer, AMER-West ACx; AWS

Job  | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain, and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers, and you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

The Commissioning Engineer (CxE) provides testing and validation oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure. CxEs review design documents, lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and manage third‑party commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre‑functional, functional, and integrated systems testing. They take ownership of project successes by diving deep to resolve technical issues and maintaining a bias for action to address ever‑changing schedule and coordination demands onsite.

CxEs continuously audit activities to ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements, and they produce comprehensive weekly reports of status of all ongoing projects and lessons learned to continually improve the quality of our program.

• Walk job sites in uneven terrain
• Work at heights and from ladders
• Regularly walk, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Lift and/or move up to 49 pounds; and participate in group lifts for 50 pounds or more
• Carry objects weighing up to 49 pounds for short distances
• Work shifts longer than eight hours in duration with potential for night and weekends
• Perform physical tasks throughout the day without becoming overly tired
• Ability to manipulate small wires and objects easily
• Work in a noisy environment
• Work in environments that are colder or hotter than a normal office environment

• Ability and willingness to travel domestic and internationally for up to 25% of the year.
• Required to provide personal transportation for meetings and job visits away from the office; reimbursed.

U.S. Citizenship Required

On a typical project, the CxE works across AWS engineering, capacity delivery, operations, and contractor teams to coordinate site activities, prioritize tasks, and ensure each issue has a clear path to resolution. The CxE manages the project commissioning vendor whose primary scope is to identify issues, determine criticality, propose solutions, and document their findings. If project turnover is at risk, the CxE escalates to the appropriate stakeholders.

Upon project completion, the CxE communicates lessons learned to help peers on similar projects in flight and participates in initiatives that drive improvement to the commissioning program.

• 5+ years of engineering, installation, or startup/commissioning of electrical and mechanical systems experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or 5 years of relevant discipline work experience.
• High technical competency in either mechanical or electrical or control systems utilized in critical infrastructures, with the capability to learn and be trained in the others.
• Understands the design concept and intent by reviewing mechanical or electrical design documentation, including drawings, specifications, vendor submittals and sequences of operations and provides feedback on the same in accordance with Amazon standards for basis of design.
• Develops but mainly reviews commissioning documentation such as test plans, scripts and reports developed…