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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Data Center Commissioning Engineer to support commissioning across multiple data center projects for hyperscale AI data center commissioning in the Greater Abilene, Texas Area.

In this role, you will help ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with business goals, industry standards, and operational reliability requirements. You will work closely with stakeholders, suppliers, contractors, engineering teams, and cross-functional partners to communicate expectations, track progress, resolve issues, and support successful project completion.

You will also monitor key performance indicators during systems testing, identify trends or anomalies, contribute to technical documentation, and help ensure quality and safety standards are followed throughout the project lifecycle.

This position is based in Greater Abilene area (Shackelford County, Texas) approximately 20 miles from Abilene. We are open to local to the area or open to relocate to Abilene. Oracle offers competitive relocation packages for eligible candidates. We will also consider candidates from the Dallas-Ft. Worth area who are open to travel over 50%.

Responsibilities

+ Support daily construction execution for assigned buildings, systems, areas, or trade scopes.

+ Work closely with general contractors, subcontractors, foremen, superintendents, and trade partners.

+ Monitor field progress, manpower, productivity, sequencing, and workface readiness.

+ Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, milestones, logistics plans, and turnover priorities.

+ Identify and help resolve field issues, trade conflicts, congestion risks, and execution constraints.

+ Reinforce onsite safety expectations through visible field presence.

+ Support installation quality verification and help reduce rework.

+ Partner with QA/QC, commissioning, controls, logistics, safety, and operations teams.

+ Track punch-list items, turnover readiness, and startup support requirements.

+ Provide accurate daily field reports, progress updates, issue logs, and milestone updates.

+ Support recovery plans when schedule, quality, productivity, or coordination issues arise.

+ Support Construction Managers in promoting consistent field execution practices.

+ Maintain continuous site awareness through regular field walks and direct contractor engagement. Qualifications:

+ 6+ years of experience supporting construction execution on large-scale, complex projects.

+ Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, infrastructure, semiconductor, power, or other technical construction environments.

+ Knowledge of construction sequencing, field coordination, manpower tracking, productivity

+ monitoring, and milestone execution.

+ Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, look-ahead plans, and turnover documentation.

+ Proven ability to identify field risks, resolve construction issues, and escalate effectively.

+ Strong understanding of safety expectations, quality standards, punch-list management, and turnover readiness.

+ Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise updates.

+ Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 85% field/site engagement.

+ Strong ownership mindset, urgency, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced construction environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Experience supporting hyperscale data center construction projects.

+ Experience in an owner's representative, construction management, EPC, or general contractor environment.

+ Familiarity with data center systems, including electrical, mechanical, controls, civil, structural, architectural, network, or commissioning-related scopes.

+ Experience supporting or coaching Construction Managers, field engineers, coordinators, or discipline-specific construction teams.

+ Experience supporting fast-track construction, phased turnover, commissioning-driven delivery, or recovery execution.

+ Familiarity with construction reporting tools, scheduling platforms, document control systems, and issue tracking processes such as Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar tools.

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Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualiz...

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