Commissioning Engineer, AWS Commissioning
Amazon· Operations IT & Support Engineering
Herndon, VA$116.8k - $160kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Data Center Commissioning Engineer responsible for testing and validation of AWS electrical and mechanical infrastructure, leading Factory Witness Testing, coordinating with vendors and onsite teams, and ensuring environmental, safety, and quality standards across multiple ongoing projects.
Responsibilities
- Provides testing and validation oversight of AWS data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
- Reviews design documents, leads Factory Witness Testing (FWT), and manages third-party commissioning vendors in onsite pre-functional, functional, and integrated systems testing.
- Owns projects by diving deep to resolve technical issues and biases for action to address schedule and coordination demands onsite.
- Provides multi-discipline input into scheduling, test script development, design, and planning of projects.
- Reviews component submittal packages, leads Factory Witness Testing (FWT), performs system level and integrated system testing.
- Audits commissioning activities to ensure compliance with environmental, quality, and safety requirements.
- Compiles comprehensive weekly status reports and lessons learned to improve the commissioning program.
- Coordinates across AWS engineering, capacity delivery, operations, and contractor teams to schedule site activities and resolve issues.
- Manages commissioning vendors, identifies issues, determines criticality, proposes solutions, and documents findings.
- Escalates at risk projects to appropriate stakeholders.
- Communicates lessons learned and participates in program improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of engineering, installation, or startup/commissioning of electrical and mechanical systems experience
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or 5+ years of relevant discipline work experience
- Knowledge of mechanical systems in critical Data Center operations including CRAC/CRAHs/AHUs, chillers, cooling towers, piping, pumps, valves, duct, fans, dampers
- Experience interpreting mechanical and electrical drawings
- Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents
Skills
Required:Electrical and mechanical systems commissioningFactory Witness Testing (FWT)Reading construction drawings and submittalsProject coordinationReporting and communication
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off and parental leave
- RSUs and sign-on payments
- Flexible spending accounts and mental health support
- EAP and additional adoption/surrogacy reimbursement options
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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