# Electrical Commissioning Lead

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $141k – $285k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** electrical commissioning, electrical distribution, backup power systems, grounding and bonding, electrical controls, functional testing, integrated systems testing, qa/qc inspections, energization planning, electrical safety, test scripts, digital issue tracking
**Posted:** 2026-08-09

> Leads electrical commissioning planning, readiness, energization, testing, quality coordination, and turnover for complex technical infrastructure projects. Requires 8+ years of relevant experience and strong knowledge of electrical distribution, backup power, controls, safety, and integrated testing.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the electrical commissioning scope, readiness criteria, inspection strategy, and test execution plan.
- Review electrical design packages, specifications, submittals, method statements, sequence assumptions, and testing requirements for commissionability and risk.
- Coordinate electrical QA/QC inspections with contractors and vendor field/test engineers, including installation checks, pre-functional readiness, deficiency capture, and closeout tracking.
- Develop and review electrical commissioning procedures, including startup, energization readiness, functional testing, failure mode validation, controls interfaces, and integrated systems testing inputs.
- Coordinate with equipment vendors on factory/site acceptance requirements, startup support, test prerequisites, documentation packages, and vendor participation during critical tests.
- Support energization planning, switching and safety coordination, access sequencing, temporary conditions, witness points, and hold points.
- Lead discipline-level review of electrical test results, deficiencies, corrective actions, retest requirements, and acceptance evidence.
- Maintain electrical commissioning dashboards and status inputs, including risk items, resource needs, test readiness, and issue aging.
- Partner with the Mechanical Commissioning Lead on cross-discipline dependencies involving controls, life safety interfaces, heat load testing, power-to-mechanical coordination, and integrated testing scenarios.
- Support turnover by confirming electrical documentation, as-built evidence, test records, and outstanding issue disposition are complete and usable by operations.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of electrical commissioning, electrical construction, field engineering, startup, testing, or owner representative experience on complex technical infrastructure projects.
- Strong knowledge of electrical distribution, backup or standby power systems, grounding and bonding, electrical controls/interfaces, protection concepts, and safe energization workflows.
- Experience reviewing commissioning specifications, inspection checklists, functional test scripts, vendor startup procedures, and test reports.
- Ability to coordinate field execution across contractors, equipment vendors, QA/QC teams, commissioning partners, and project leadership.
- Strong practical judgment around readiness, safety, sequencing, test prerequisites, and risk escalation.
- Comfort working in construction environments with evolving schedules and multiple parallel work fronts.
- Clear technical writing skills and discipline in maintaining logs, test evidence, issue records, and decision history.
- Ability to be present at the project site during critical electrical installation, startup, energization, and testing windows.

## Preferred Skills
- Owner-side or commissioning agent experience on mission-critical, utility-scale, industrial, manufacturing, data center, or other high-reliability facilities.
- Professional engineering, electrical license, commissioning credential, or equivalent field qualification.
- Experience with integrated systems testing and coordination between electrical, mechanical, controls, and operations teams.
- Familiarity with digital issue tracking, commissioning management platforms, schedule tools, and field reporting workflows.
- PE license.
- Commissioning certification such as QCxP, CxA, BCxP, or CCP.

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