Commissioning Lead – US Central

Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the cloud. CO+I is responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.

The CO+I Commissioning team is responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of new data center capacity for CO+I. Through development of leading program management and construction processes, this team is chartered with managing workflow across vertically and horizontally aligned project managers and virtual teams to successfully deliver multi-million-dollar, multi-year data center construction programs.

The Commissioning Lead - US Central will work on projects in the following areas: Chicago, IL; Des Moines, IA; San Antonio, TX and Columbus, OH.  You will be responsible for the Program Management, Definition, and Execution of Datacenter Commissioning. This position requires the management of a very effective team of project commissioning managers responsible for the daily oversight and management of commissioning projects. You will collaborate with architects, engineers, construction managers, network engineers, data center operations teams and finance teams to streamline and improve delivery of data center capacity. You will ensure your teams execute against scope, schedule and budget to deliver the latest generation of data center technology to Microsoft’s Online Services. You shall be responsible for estimating effort, developing a commissioning budget, test equipment and developing schedules for commissioning of US Central Build projects.  You shall be responsible for ensuring projects are commissioned in accordance with Microsoft's standards and directly manage the process for projects and support other Commissioning Projects in other Regions.

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Responsibilities

Management

• Reports to the CO+I Americas Director of Commissioning.
• This position requires a senior level of understanding of Safety, Datacenter Commissioning, Program Management, Telecommunications, and Mission Critical Operations.
• The candidate will be responsible for multiple projects regionally at one time.
• Develop & maintain Global Commissioning Standards.
• Lead, manage, coach & develop an effective Global team of Project Commissioning Managers, responsible for the tactical execution & delivery of Datacenter commissioning projects.
• Primary responsibility for management of Project Commissioning Managers for US Central projects and support other Commissioning Projects in other Regions.
• Conduct routine 1-on-1 meetings, semi-annual reviews of employees and drive the development and performance of direct reports.
• Approval of budgets, contracts and change orders for contracted Commissioning Agents assigned to Data Center construction projects.
• Travel required.

Business Processes

• Create and/or maintain best practices to identify and incorporate quality and cost-effective solutions.
• Development of Commissioning Procedures and Standards.
• Drive the regional Commissioning process including scope, schedule and budget.
• Create, communicate and track project metrics to drive best practices for your teams
• Regularly review Construction Progress, QA/QC, Commissioning progress, issues, and KPIs to report to management.
• Coordinate meetings and activities of Pr