Construction Electrical Commissioning Technician - 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.

We’re seeking a Construction Electrical Commissioning Technician – Controls, you will perform field verification, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation for PLC control systems, fire alarm, SCADA, and associated electrical and mechanical interfaces across an air-cooled HPC data center campus. Reporting to the Electrical Construction Manager, you will coordinate daily with the Electrical Supervisor - Controls, commissioning team, design engineers, contractors, vendors, and operations personnel to move systems from installation completion through functional acceptance and final turnover.

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

• Coordinate daily commissioning priorities with the Electrical Supervisor - Controls and commissioning leadership while reporting progress, constraints, and technical issues to the Electrical Construction Manager.
• Review drawings, specifications, control narratives, sequences of operation, cause-and-effect matrices, I/O and points lists, network architecture, submittals, RFIs, shop drawings, and test procedures to understand system intent and acceptance requirements.
• Perform installation-readiness walkdowns of control panels, raceways, power and control cabling, instrumentation, fire alarm devices and modules, network equipment, grounding, bonding, labeling, penetrations, and equipment interfaces.
• Execute and document continuity checks, loop checks, point-to-point verification, device addressing, calibration checks, controls-network verification, communications testing, and visual inspections using approved procedures.
• Support verification of PLC and SCADA I/O, tags, alarms, graphics, trends, setpoints, user access, network addressing, time synchronization, historian functions, and data exchange with connected systems.
• Verify approved sequences, permissives, interlocks, shutdowns, and cause-and-effect responses, including fire alarm interfaces, while maintaining required life-safety authority, listing, and code compliance.
• Support factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, functional performance testing, failover testing, and integrated systems testing with controls vendors, fire alarm contractors, equipment manufacturers, commissioning agents, and operations personnel.
• Troubleshoot discrepancies across field devices, wiring, terminations, control panels, communications networks, software configuration, and programmed logic; document findings and coordinate corrective action with the responsible party.
• Create, update, and manage commissioning deficiencies and punch-list items; assign ownership, verify completion, perform or witness retesting, and maintain objective closure evidence.
• Follow approved electrical safety, lockout/tagout, energized-work, software change-control, cybersecurity, access-control, and method-of-procedure requirements throughout testing and commissioning.
• Maintain daily test records, progress quantities, constraint logs, redlines, issue trackers, software and configuration revision records, and clear handoff notes for the Electrical Supervisor - Controls and project leadership.
• Assemble turnover records, including signed test forms, final I/O and points databases, approved control narratives and cause-and-effect matrices, software and configuration backups, calibration records, deficiency closure, as-builts, O&M information, training records, and warranty documentation.

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.