Commissioning Engineer, AWS Commissioning, AMER-West
Amazon· Operations IT & Support Engineering
Coyanosa, TX, Wharton, TX, Houston, TX$116.8k - $160kfull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
AWS Infrastructure Services engineering role focused on commissioning and testing of electrical and mechanical infrastructure in AWS data centers. Responsible for testing, validation, and coordination with vendors to deliver on-site pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing across multiple projects.
Responsibilities
- The Commissioning Engineer (CxE) provides testing and validation oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
- CxEs review design documents, lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and manage third-party commissioning vendors in the performance of onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing.
- They take ownership of projects’ successes by diving deep to resolve technical issues and bias for action to address evolving schedule and coordination on-site.
- CxEs provide multi-discipline input into scheduling, test script development, designing, and planning of projects.
- Review component submittal packages, lead Factory Witness Testing (FWT), perform system level and integrated system testing.
- Continuously audit commissioning activities to ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements.
- Provide comprehensive weekly reporting of status of all ongoing projects and lessons learned to improve the program quality.
- Coordinate with AWS engineering, capacity delivery, operations, and contractor teams to plan site activities and resolve issues.
- Manage the commissioning vendor responsible for identifying issues, determining criticality, proposing solutions, and documenting findings.
- Escalate risks to stakeholders if project turnover is at risk.
- Communicate lessons learned to peers and participate in program-improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering, installation, or startup/commissioning of electrical and mechanical systems experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or 5 years of relevant discipline work experience
- High technical competency in either mechanical or electrical or control systems used in critical infrastructures, with ability to learn others
- Understand design concepts by reviewing mechanical/electrical design documentation, drawings, specifications, vendor submittals and sequences of operations; provide feedback per Amazon standards
- Develop or review commissioning documentation such as test plans, scripts and reports for accuracy against design requirements
Skills
Required:Project coordinationTest planning and scriptingVendor management
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off and parental leave
- Employee assistance programs and mental health support
- Flexible spending accounts and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
- Reimbursed travel for meetings and remote job visits
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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