Lead Professional, Commissioning

Description

• Interact with any applicable regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner.
• Collaborate with engineers, contractors, and local agencies to ensure safe, reliable transit service.
• Assist with development and scoping of medium- to large-sized commissioning projects.
• Oversee and monitor cross-functional teams to execute project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, technical calculations, permit applications, schematics, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos.
• Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
• Verify performance of mechanical, electrical, and life-safety systems critical to passenger operations.
• Provide guidance with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site during various construction phases, surveys, blueprints, schematics, data, technical drawings, flow diagrams, computer-generated reports, and other matrices for project energy auditing actions, validation, and commissioning.
• Involved from project inception to completion for commissioning work deliverables throughout the various project work phases including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, integration, installation, and operation.
• Coordinate, review and approve commissioning and operational plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
• Maintain quality control standards, document logs of control and equipment functionality testing and verification, and procedures for accurate and precise measurements, calculations, statistical analysis, and reporting.
• Develop and incorporate advanced technologies, monitoring, modeling techniques, design requirements, load calculations, and operating strategies to account for the proper installation and functioning of equipment and systems according to specifications; implementing future-ready solutions with building systems operating standards.
• Deliver documentation, testing oversight, and compliance verification throughout project phases.
• Lead commissioning activities for transit systems, tunnels, stations, and ventilation networks.
• Perform professional building and system commissioning work by conducting research and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, equipment, resources, layout, usage, and systems to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, codes, and installation or operating permits.
• Verify site characteristics and provide technical assistance on various design, installation, and integration issues relating to commissioning and retro commissioning of systems including HVAC, steam, compressed air, chilled water, plumbing, and automation.
• Collaborate with other professionals, engineers, inspectors, project control, and technicians on public and privately-funded building improvement and development projects, as well as proposal and business development opportunities.
• Analyze, evaluate, and interpret data obtained during site assessments, offering input with developing action plans for moderate- to high-level risk installation, equipment operations, and/or mitigation activities.
• Develop and oversee configuration, testing specifications, and readiness plans; preparing and updating checklists/punch lists and cost estimates that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients.
• Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, and recommendations to navigate, improve, prevent, control, restore, or address design, and/or installation/operational issues or opportunities.

Requirements

• Well-developed ability to make technical computations and calculations involving the application of testing and validation, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate standards or regulations.
• Remain current in latest commissioning techniques and practices.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and tunnel ventilation systems.
• Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
• 7 to 10 years of relevant post education experience in discipline with prior building and systems commissioning experience.
• Ability to plan and conduct inspections and investigations on various aspects of the installation and design of equipment, facilities, and systems.
• Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
• Certification as a Commissioning Agent (CxA) or equivalent credential.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Proven experience in transportation or transit infrastructure projects.
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to a technical and non-technical audience.
• Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or closely related discipline or equivalent years of industry experience.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, load calculations, computations, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
• Ability to work on-site in Maryland or Washington, DC

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance