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Lease Commissioning Manager

United States, Chicago Employment contract 119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year · Job Posted June 14, 2026
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Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud. Within CO&I, the Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) organization is responsible for delivering core datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud business. The MS portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the cloud datacenters that power the world's largest online services. The CO+I Commissioning team is responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of new data center capacity for CO+I. Through development of leading program management and construction processes, this team is chartered with managing workflow across vertically and horizontally aligned project managers and virtual teams to successfully deliver multi-million-dollar, multi-year data center construction programs. As a Lease Commissioning Manager (LCxM), you will work with data center architects, engineers, construction managers, network engineers, data center operations teams and finance teams to streamline and improve data center capacity delivery. You will execute against scope, schedule, and budget to deliver the latest generation of data center technology to Microsoft's Online Services. You shall be responsible for ensuring the project is commissioned in accordance with Microsoft's standards and directly manage the process for projects in the location region and support other Commissioning Projects in other Regions.

Job Responsibility

  • Reports to the CO+I Regional Commissioning Director – AMERS Leases
  • Primary responsibility for Chicago, IL region commissioning projects with secondary responsibility for other CO+I commissioning projects for Americas
  • Create and/or maintain best practices to identify and incorporate quality and cost-effective solutions
  • Manage the contracted Commissioning Agent assigned to Data Center construction projects in the Chicago, IL region
  • Develop, maintain, and enforce commissioning best practices across lease projects
  • Review and approve Lease Statements of Qualification (SoQs)
  • Construction site inspections to review QA/QC and commissioning process
  • Drive the project Commissioning process including scope and schedule
  • Travel required
  • Regularly reviews Construction Progress, QA/QC, Commissioning progress, issues, and KPI metrics to report to management
  • Coordinate meetings and activities of vendor project managers including integration of lessons-learned
  • Manage client representatives and partners to define and align on scope, schedule, and budget
  • Attend scheduled owner/architect/contractor (OAC) and other project meetings, and report as necessary
  • Report Project Progress on scope, schedule, and budget weekly or as required
  • Responsible for developing, managing, and reporting on scope, schedule of the Commissioning Process for CO+I Projects
  • Manage the Commissioning process for Chicago, IL region Lease Projects
  • Reporting of the Commissioning process to management on a regular basis
  • Work independently in support of the CO+I Program
  • Manage data center commissioning project delivery strategy in alignment with the CO+I road map strategy
  • Refines practices/policies and develops methods/techniques for driving solutions including development of commissioning procedures
  • Provides input to long-term delivery strategy and incorporates requirements into the project execution plans
  • Provide input to internal stakeholders on vendor oversight and commissioning performance management
  • Preparation of SOQ's and other project approval tools & templates
  • Ensure adherence to commissioning exhibit and other contractual requirements within Lease Agreements
  • Relocation required to Chicago, IL.

Requirements

  • Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR 12+ years relevant technical engineering experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

Nice to have

  • 10+ years relevant technical engineering experience
  • Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years technical engineering experience
  • 5+ years experience working on data center projects
  • Project Management
  • Construction Quality Assurance / Quality Control (QA/QC)
  • Able to develop and write detailed Commissioning Scripts
  • Issue identification and resolution management
  • Industry recognized Commissioning Certification
  • OSHA 30 or equivalent qualification
  • NFPA-70E
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
  • Proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Visio, MS Project, MS Teams

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