Your role at a glance The Regional Commissioning Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing all commissioning activities across multiple data centre projects within a defined region. This role ensures the successful delivery of mission-critical facilities from Level 1 through Level 5 commissioning , guaranteeing operational readiness, quality, safety, and reliability of all systems before client handover. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership to project commissioning teams, manage stakeholders across design, construction, operations, and vendors, and drive standardisation of commissioning processes while ensuring projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in compliance with contractual and operational requirements. Key Roles & Responsibilities * Lead and support site-based Commissioning teams and Commissioning Agents across the region. * Develop and manage commissioning schedules integrated with overall project programmes. * Monitor commissioning progress, KPIs, risks, and milestones, implementing mitigation and recovery plans as required. * Lead commissioning readiness reviews, progress meetings, and stakeholder communications. * Ensure commissioning activities are aligned with project objectives, client requirements, and programme delivery goals. * Manage relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, vendors, operations teams, and third-party Commissioning Agents. * Coordinate system handover and operational readiness activities with Facilities and Operations teams. * Promote a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with all health, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements. * Oversee commissioning risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work. * Ensure the timely preparation and maintenance of all commissioning documentation and project deliverables, including plans, schedules, testing scripts, issue logs, turnover packages, and final reports. * Drive the effective resolution and close-out of commissioning issues through to project completion. Requirements * 10+ years of commissioning experience within mission-critical or data centre environments. * Experience delivering large-scale hyperscale or enterprise data centres. * Proven track record managing complex commissioning programmes from L1 through L5. * Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical systems within critical environments. * Experience leading Integrated Systems Testing (IST). * Experience managing multidisciplinary commissioning teams. * Regional or programme-level leadership experience. * Experience managing projects exceeding £100M in value. * Experience with hyperscale operators * Familiarity with commissioning management software and digital handover platforms. Who we are As the third largest data centre provider, we operate over 150 data centres in more than 20 countries and regions. We understand that every business – large and small – has its own unique needs and goals. We offer local-to-global data centre expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centres to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime