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Volta is building a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform with a mission to make compute as dependable and available as electricity. The company has secured $10B in strategic partnerships and $5B in AI Infrastructure funding, with operations across London, Palo Alto, and New York.
As Senior Director, Global Commissioning & Handover, you will lead the commissioning of Volta's AI factory facilities and network infrastructure across all sites, taking each facility from construction through to operational readiness and handover to the operations team.
You will build and lead a global commissioning team responsible for establishing and maintaining standards across electrical, mechanical, and cooling distribution unit (CDU) scopes, systems security, commissioning planning, facilities readiness, and operational readiness. Your team will define how commissioning is executed at every site—from equipment tagging through turn-up sequences—and will own the critical path schedule that brings each facility live.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading commissioning of DSX facilities and network infrastructure across Volta's AI factories
- Building and leading the global Commissioning and Handover team across multiple disciplines
- Owning commissioning standards for each discipline, from method statements through turn-up sequences
- Establishing CDU installation and commissioning standards with handover protocols to operations
- Owning the commissioning schedule for every site and ensuring it aligns with turn-up timelines so commissioning never becomes the critical path to service
- Delivering physical and systems security requirements from construction through handover
- Setting facilities readiness and operational readiness standards and governance
- Leading handover into service, working with DC Operations on acceptance, documentation, and training
- Collaborating with Design, Engineering, regional delivery teams, and DSX execution teams to integrate commissioning into master schedules
- Reporting commissioning progress and risk across sites, feeding lessons learned back into standards and reference designs
You will travel to sites across Europe and North America as needed.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience leading commissioning of hyperscale data centers, including electrical, mechanical, and liquid cooling systems (data center experience is essential)
- Track record owning commissioning and handover across multiple concurrent sites at director level, with ability to execute from day one
- Deep knowledge of commissioning levels, integrated systems testing, and turn-up sequences for high-density GPU environments
- Experience with CDU and liquid cooling commissioning and handover into operations
- Experience setting readiness governance and handing live facilities over to operations teams
- Experience building and leading commissioning teams and managing commissioning agents and contractors
- Understanding of physical and systems security requirements in mission-critical facilities
- Willingness to travel to sites across Europe and North America
