Site Based Commissioning Manager Europe

Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (MCO+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, high-energy 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.  

As a Commissioning Manager, you will work with data center architects, engineers, construction managers, network engineers, data center operations teams and finance teams to streamline and improve data center capacity delivery. You will execute against scope, schedule, and budget to deliver the latest generation of datacenter technology to Microsoft’s Online Services. You shall be responsible for ensuring the project is commissioned in accordance with Microsoft's standards and directly manage the process for projects in the Location region and support other Commissioning Projects in other Regions.  

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.  

Responsibilities

Business Processes: 

• Reports to the CO+I Sub-Region Commissioning Lead  

• Primary responsibility for assigned metro commissioning projects with secondary responsibility for other CO+I commissioning projects for the region  

• Create and/or maintain best practices to identify and incorporate quality and cost-effective solutions.  

• Manage the contracted Commissioning Agent assigned to Data Center construction projects in the assigned metro.  

• Development of Commissioning Procedures and Standards.  

• Construction site inspections to review QA/QC and commissioning process.  

• Drive the project Commissioning process including scope and schedule

Communications:

• Regularly reviews Construction Progress, QA/QC, Commissioning progress, issues, and KPI metrics to report to management.  

• Coordinate meetings and activities of vendor project managers including integration of lessons learned.  

• Manage client representatives and partners to define and align on scope, schedule, and budget.  

• Attend scheduled owner/architect/contractor (OAC) and other project meetings, and report as necessary.  

• Report Project Progress on scope, schedule, and budget weekly or as required.