Construction Electrical Supervisor - Controls

Job Type: Full-time | Location: Childress, Texas | Department: Construction | Reporting to: Associate Director, Construction | Work Location: #onsite

IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC. 

Help deliver the controls infrastructure that enables safe, reliable high-performance computing at scale. As the Construction Electrical Supervisor - Controls, you will lead field supervision and integration of PLC control systems, fire alarm, and SCADA across an air-cooled HPC data center campus. You will review design documentation, coordinate interfaces among electrical, mechanical, life-safety, controls, network, commissioning, and operations teams, and direct specialty contractors through installation, programming support, testing, and turnover. Your leadership will ensure that controls and monitoring systems function as designed and support safe, resilient, and maintainable facility operations.

With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.    

Responsibilities

• Lead field planning, execution, integration, testing, and turnover of PLC control systems, fire alarm, SCADA, and associated electrical controls infrastructure for the HPC data center project.
• Direct controls, fire alarm, electrical, and specialty contractors; establish daily priorities and hold teams accountable for safety, manpower, productivity, schedule, workmanship, testing, and closeout commitments.
• Review design drawings, specifications, control narratives, sequences of operation, cause-and-effect matrices, I/O and points lists, network architecture, submittals, RFIs, shop drawings, method statements, and test plans for constructability, completeness, and compliance.
• Identify missing scope, conflicting requirements, incomplete sequences, and interface gaps; coordinate timely resolution with engineering, construction, vendors, commissioning, and operations before they affect field execution.
• Maintain an interface matrix for PLC, SCADA, fire alarm, BMS, EPMS, electrical equipment, mechanical equipment, packaged controls, and network systems, with clear ownership for power, wiring, communications, programming, graphics, alarms, testing, and turnover.
• Oversee installation of control panels, enclosures, raceways, power and control cabling, fiber and copper communications, instrumentation, fire alarm devices and modules, network equipment, grounding, bonding, labeling, and required penetrations.
• Coordinate development and validation of I/O databases, SCADA tags, point lists, alarm priorities, graphics, trends, setpoints, user access, network addressing, time synchronization, software revisions, and system backups.
• Verify that sequences, permissives, interlocks, shutdowns, and cause-and-effect logic are implemented as approved, while preserving the required authority, listing, and code compliance of the fire alarm and life-safety systems.
• Enforce controls quality requirements for cable separation, shielding, grounding, terminations, polarity, device addressing, calibration, labeling, firestopping, network installation, panel workmanship, and redline accuracy.
• Plan, coordinate, and witness factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, loop checks, point-to-point verification, communications testing, failover testing, functional performance testing, and integrated systems testing; drive deficiencies to closure.
• Manage look-ahead schedules, manpower forecasts, procurement and delivery of long-lead controls materials, progress quantities, risk and change logs, outage or energization constraints, and contractor payment validation.
• Drive complete turnover documentation, including approved as-builts, final control narratives, cause-and-effect matrices, I/O and points databases, software and configuration backups, test reports, device records, warranties, licenses, O&M information, training, and spares.

Requirements

Other important requirements:  

• Pre-employment screening, including background check and substance testing may be required according to company policies. 
• Must provide own steel-toed work boots; other PPE will be supplied.
• Must be able to reliably commute to the work site daily or have plans to relocate before starting work.
• Must be comfortable working a rotational schedule, which includes day and night shifts as well as weekend work, based on project needs.
• Employees working night shifts will receive a 15% premium added to their hourly rate only for hours worked during night shifts.