Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
A Snapshot
As the Services and Commissioning Manager, Sydney, you will report directly to our Services and Commissioning Associate Director based in our HQ in Sydney. You will work closely with our Design, Development and Operations teams, making an impact in several ways:
- Commissioning lead on data centre projects in Sydney, Australia, managing through to successful completion and handing over to the operations team and customers.
- Work closely with internal and external stakeholders including General Contractors, Suppliers, Commissioning Agents and Customers to meet all AirTrunk requirements within the testing, commissioning and handover process.
- Collaborate with the APME AirTrunk Development and Design team to drive the safety and quality standards and global best practices to meet AirTrunk requirements
- Ensuring AirTrunk’s data centres are commissioned not just for completion, but for long‑term operability, performance and lifecycle sustainability.
***This role is predominantly based in our data centres in Sydney, Australia, but may require you to travel to interstate and overseas occasionally***
Your Day to Day
- Manage the commissioning and handover process for AirTrunk's new data centers in Sydney, Australia (support in other regions may be required)
- Provide leadership support and guidance to commissioning and construction teams to manage risks and ensure project requirements are executed safely and to AirTrunk quality requirements.
- Oversee and manage numerous projects at different stages at any one time and provide leadership to Commissioning teams assigned to the project(s)
- Ensure all commissioning procedures follow required safety and environmental policies and practices.
- Drive consultant, general contractor, supplier and commissioning agent activities prior to and during commissioning to enable efficient and successful handover.
- Coordinate and resolve technical issues leading up to and during commissioning
- Engage with internal and external parties and report to management on the status of commissioning activities
- Drive and witness successful factory testing of MEP equipment
- Attend regular design and commissioning meetings to ensure AirTrunk standards and procedures are maintained; attend construction meetings as required
- Establish and coordinate the commissioning schedule with general contractor, vendors, contractors, and commissioning agent to ensure completion prior to RFS dates.
- Review the MEP, DCS, ICT, security and other services designs for compliance to AirTrunk’s requirements, enabling efficient and successful completion and commissioning, and overseeing collaborator document control for these specialist areas.
- Oversee contractor commissioning defect management process and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Coordinate commissioning activities with AirTrunk operations teams and ensure submissions of MOPS, O&M manuals and timely training to AirTrunk’s requirements.
Requirements
- 5+ years' experience as a Building Services or Commissioning Manager in general contractor or commissioning agent role leading a successful handover of complex (ideally data centre) projects
- Experience collaborating with MEP suppliers, contractors, and commissioning agents within the APAC market
- Experience commissioning in live, operational environments
- Incredibly flexible and adaptable to a dynamic fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Willing to make decisions and be accountable for them
- Excel at communication with the ability to deliver effective presentations on data centre design and commissioning strategies to customers, peers and management
- Strong leadership ability in leading multi-disciplinary teams across multiple geographies
- You are willing to travel internally and to other APAC regions