Overview
As a Data Center Commissioning Engineer at AWS, you join a cross-disciplinary team ensuring construction quality and operational readiness of AWS data centers. You will collaborate with vendors, contractors, and internal teams to commission power, HVAC, BMS, and related systems, driving testing and quality controls. The role focuses on delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure while upholding safety and environmental standards. You’ll contribute to continuous improvement through reporting and lessons learned, supporting multiple inflight projects. This position offers exposure to cutting-edge data center engineering at scale.
Pay / Benefits
- Mentorship & career growth
- Work-life balance and flexible hours
- Diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Inclusive culture and collaboration
- Competitive compensation (implicit)
- Opportunities to work on challenging, large-scale projects
Responsibilities
- Support vendors, contractors and internal teams in commissioning systems such as medium/low voltage power, generators, UPS, EPMS, HVAC, Chilled Water, BMS, Testing and balancing, pumps and hydronic systems
- Provide multi-discipline input into scheduling, test script development, design and project planning
- Review component submittals, lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and perform system and integrated testing
- Continuously audit commissioning activities for environmental, quality, and safety compliance
- Prepare comprehensive weekly project status reporting and capture lessons learned
- Cover multiple inflight projects during commissioning phase
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Experience in industrial or commercial engineering in mission-critical facilities (data centers, power generation, or oil and gas)
- Experience researching new designs, technologies, and construction methods for data center equipment and facilities
- Experience in commissioning processes and activities
- Collaborative cross-functional communication
- Attention to quality and safety
- Analytical and problem-solving mindset
- Electrical power systems and medium/low voltage distribution
- Generators, UPS, EPMS
- HVAC and Chilled Water systems
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