Senior DesignCommissioning Manager - Data Centers
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At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself.
Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential.
Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. **Job Description:**
Parsons is seeking a highly experienced **Senior Design and Commissioning Manager** to lead the integrated delivery of design management, engineering coordination, commissioning, testing, and operational handover for major infrastructure, utilities, MEP, building services, aviation, institutional, industrial, and complex capital projects.
The role will be responsible for ensuring that technical designs are fully coordinated, compliant, constructible, maintainable, sustainable, and aligned with client, authority, and operational requirements.
The position will also lead commissioning planning and execution to verify that all systems are properly installed, tested, integrated, documented, and ready for safe, reliable, and efficient operation.
The successful candidate will work closely with project leadership, design consultants, contractors, commissioning specialists, regulatory authorities, client representatives, and operations teams to drive technical excellence across the full project lifecycle.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead and manage multi-disciplinary design and commissioning teams across utilities, MEP, building services, power, water, drainage, fire protection, controls, building automation, and related infrastructure systems.
- Oversee technical design delivery, design reviews, coordination workshops, constructability reviews, maintainability reviews, and interface resolution.
- Ensure design deliverables are completed in accordance with project scope, schedule, budget, quality requirements, client standards, and applicable codes.
- Review technical specifications, design reports, engineering documentation, drawings, calculations, and submittals for completeness, compliance, and coordination.
- Lead commissioning strategy, planning, execution, testing, verification, documentation, training, and handover activities.
- Oversee the preparation and review of commissioning plans, test procedures, functional performance tests, integrated systems tests, verification forms, O&M manuals, systems manuals, and training materials.
- Ensure all systems are commissioned to meet performance, reliability, maintainability, sustainability, energy efficiency, and operational requirements.
- Coordinate with clients, consultants, contractors, authorities, commissioning specialists, end users, and operations teams to resolve technical issues and secure approvals.
- Support BIM and digital coordination, including clash detection, model reviews, issue tracking, design coordination, commissioning records, and handover documentation.
- Identify, monitor, and mitigate design, commissioning, interface, compliance, schedule, quality, and operational readiness risks.
- Monitor design and commissioning progress, prepare technical reports, track KPIs, escalate critical issues, and support timely achievement of project milestones.
- Lead technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and close-out of design and commissioning issues.
- Mentor engineers, commissioning professionals, and technical staff while promoting a culture of safety, quality, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Building Services, or a related technical discipline. A Master’s degree is preferred.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in design, engineering, construction, commissioning, systems integration, or project delivery.
- Proven experience managing multi-disciplinary technical teams on major infrastructure, aviation, utilities, building, institutional, industrial, government, or complex capital projects.
- Strong knowledge of utilities, MEP systems, building services, power, water, drainage, fire protection, controls, building automation, commissioning processes, and operational handover.
- Demonstrated experience in design management, design coordination, construction support, commissioning planning, testing, verification, and handover.
- Good understanding of applicable codes, standards, authority requirements, sustainability frameworks, and project specifications.
- Familiarity with standards and frameworks, and local authority requirements, as applicable to the project.
- Familiarity with BIM, digital engineering, design coordination platforms, commissioning tools, project controls systems, and issue-tracking systems.
- Project, and relevant commissioning or document control platforms is preferred.
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, decision-making, reporting, and presentation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and deliver coordinated technical outcomes in a fast-paced project environment.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring
- Experience delivering major infrastructure, aviation, utilities, MEP, building services, or complex capital projects.
- Knowledge of sustainability, energy efficiency, lifecycle asset performance, and operational readiness requirements.
- Experience with design-build, PMC, early contractor involvement, constructability reviews, and integrated systems testing.
- Strong stakeholder coordination skills with experience working with clients, consultants, contractors, authorities, and operations teams.
- Previous experience in the GCC, Middle East or other complex regulatory environments is advantageous.
- Field, operations, maintenance, trades, or hands-on commissioning experience is highly desirable.
- Ability to support proposals, technical presentations, business development, and client relationship management is an advantage.
- Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
- We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars!
- Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!
- Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices.
- To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Financial Wellness
We care about your financial wellbeing.
Parsons offers competitive pay and retirement plans to help you build wealth for the future while giving you the flexibility to diversify your investments.
Work Life Harmony
Balance in life is important and time away from the office is imperative to allow you to refresh and focus your attention on the things that matter to you.
Parsons supports your time away by providing paid time off and paid flexible holidays.
Career Development
We are committed to fostering the personal and professional growth of our employees.
Develop and advance yourself though our comprehensive training, educational and mentorship programs.
Veteran Support
We provide Industry leading benefits to support veterans and active-duty members to provide security for you and your family by offering robust leave and benefits; including paid active-duty military leave and paid time off when transitioning back to civilian life.
Mind & Body
At Parsons we inspire healthier habits, heathier minds, and a healthier you through our wellness program.
Participate in our weekly Meditation Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays.
Wellness, at Parsons, is more than just your annual checkup.
Health
Health is not a one size fits all.
At Parsons, we offer a robust Employee Assistance Program as well as comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans through large, national carriers with the choice of regional PPO, HDHP, or HMO networks.
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