# Commissioning Controls Site Manager, Data Centers

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** bms, epms, plc, scada, ignition, fpt, ist, controls commissioning, data center commissioning, owner's representative, big room chairing, controls architecture, hvac systems, chilled water systems, ups monitoring
**Posted:** 2026-07-19

> Own and lead end-to-end controls commissioning (BMS, EPMS, PLC, SCADA) for multi-site 100s-of-MW greenfield data center builds as Owner's Representative. Direct contractors/OEMs, build FPT/IST scripts, own budgets and documentation, and handover to operations. Requires 50MW+ mission-critical commissioning leadership.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
Own controls commissioning delivery across BMS, EPMS, PLC, and SCADA (Ignition preferred) for Fluidstack's 2026 greenfield program, running L1 through L5 phases in parallel across multiple sites.

Chair the weekly site big room as Owner's Representative, directing general contractors, designers, OEMs, and commissioning authorities from design-assist and factory witness testing through IST and turnover.

Build and deploy FPT and IST test scripts with commissioning agents, verifying every controls system meets design intent before turnover.

Own commissioning documentation, the controls budget, and change orders, tracking issues, punch lists, and final reports to closeout.

Lead controls handover to operations and mentor project engineers across sites, standing up the commissioning playbooks and standards other engineers execute against on every site after.

## Requirements
- Led controls commissioning end to end on 50 MW+ data center or comparable mission-critical builds, covering UPS/EPMS monitoring, chilled water, and HVAC systems.
- Read controls architecture and L1 through L5 documentation well enough to direct the work and hold vendors and commissioning authorities accountable.
- Run point as Owner's Representative, chairing big-room meetings and driving GCs, OEMs, and commissioning authorities to a shared schedule.
- Track budgets, change orders, RFIs, and submittals without being asked, and catch schedule and cost risk before it turns into a change order fight.
- Written FPT and IST test scripts and reviewed them with commissioning agents to confirm systems meet design intent.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Bachelor's in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, automation, or a related field.
- PMP, CCP, NICET IV, PE license, or ISA CCST.
- ASHRAE or BCxA commissioning guideline experience.
- Hands-on pre-functional testing and mechanical or electrical adjustment work.
- Schedule-compressed delivery via prefabrication, skids, or modular deployment on 20 to 200+ MW programs.
- Prior hyperscale or colocation commissioning experience.

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