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Senior Manager, Data Center Commissioning & Validation

Oracle·Nashville, Tennessee
Full-time
Posted 1 months ago

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About This Role

As Senior Commissioning Validation Manager, you will lead commissioning

validation governance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center delivery

programs, ensuring critical electrical, mechanical, controls, life-safety, and

supporting infrastructure systems are tested, validated, documented, and

accepted before operational turnover. This role provides site- and program-level

leadership across commissioning readiness, test execution oversight, issue

resolution, and acceptance quality for new builds, expansions, retrofits, and

high-priority capacity programs.

You will serve as a senior people leader within the Data Center Commissioning

organization, partnering with Construction, Engineering, Site Deployment,

Facilities Operations, Reliability, Security, Network, Supply Chain, and

third-party commissioning agents to drive predictable, safe, and auditable

commissioning outcomes. The role requires deep mission-critical infrastructure

judgment, strong field execution discipline, and the ability to lead managers,

engineers, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders through complex

commissioning milestones.

This is not a purely administrative project management role. It is a technical

commissioning leadership role responsible for ensuring installed systems perform

as designed, commissioning evidence is complete, risks are surfaced early, and

operational teams receive facilities that are ready to run without latent

defects or unresolved acceptance risk.

Key Responsibilities 

* Lead commissioning validation execution across assigned data center sites,

campuses, regions, or major capacity programs, with accountability for

readiness, test governance, quality, safety, and operational acceptance.

* Own commissioning validation standards for L1-L5 activities, including

factory witness testing, pre-functional checks, functional performance

testing, integrated systems testing, failure-mode validation,

sequence-of-operations verification, and turnover documentation.

* Provide technical and management oversight of internal commissioning teams,

commissioning agents, general contractors, trade partners, equipment vendors,

and other third-party service providers.

* Partner with Engineering and Construction teams to review design intent,

submittals, commissioning plans, method statements, test scripts, acceptance

criteria, and system readiness before field execution.

* Ensure commissioning activities validate critical MEP and controls systems,

including medium- and low-voltage power distribution, generators, UPS

systems, switchgear, HVAC, chilled water systems, pumps, BMS, EPMS,

SCADA/DCIM interfaces, fire/life-safety systems, and supporting

infrastructure.

* Drive commissioning schedule integration with construction completion, site

readiness, network deployment, rack energization, operations staffing, CMMS

activation, and customer capacity milestones.

* Identify commissioning risks, blockers, failed test conditions, recurring

deficiencies, documentation gaps, and acceptance issues; drive clear

ownership, escalation, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and closure

discipline.

* Establish portfolio-level reporting for commissioning progress, defect aging,

test completion, system readiness, vendor performance, safety observations,

punch-list health, and operational turnover risk.

* Ensure commissioning deliverables meet OCI standards for safety, quality,

operability, maintainability, security, compliance, and long-term operations

supportability.

* Lead continuous improvement of commissioning playbooks, validation templates,

test-script quality, lessons learned, vendor scorecards, and readiness gates

across the data center delivery lifecycle.

* Develop and coach commissioning managers and senior technical contributors,

building capability, accountability, and consistent execution practices

across the organization.

* Represent commissioning status, risk, and acceptance recommendations to

senior leaders, ensuring executive communications are clear, evidence-based,

and tied to business-critical capacity delivery decisions.

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and

expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And

with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that

promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company

leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why

we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with

competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life

insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to

their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the

employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for

a disability at any point, let us know by emailing

accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com [accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com] or by

calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants

will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,

religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability

and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and

conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Required Skills

Contract ManagementBusiness AcumenTechnical WritingCommissioning ValidationPeople LeadershipMEP Systems OversightRisk ManagementProject GovernanceBudget ManagementRoot Cause AnalysisStakeholder ManagementTechnical Documentation

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