Commissioning Project Manager (CxPM) – Data Center / Mission Critical – Omaha, NE

Location: Omaha, NE

Compensation: Competitive market benchmark + comprehensive benefits package

The Opportunity

HeatherDaniel International (HDi), a construction recruitment specialist, is representing a long-established, partner-led global construction and property consultancy. Operating without external corporate shareholders or short-term private-equity demands, the practice provides Owner’s Representation, cost management and specialised project management across major North American metropolitan markets.

We are seeking a Commissioning Project Manager (CxPM) to join the specialised project-management practice in Omaha, Nebraska. In this client-side advisory role you will serve as the owner’s dedicated technical representative across the commissioning life-cycle for major, highly technical capital programmes.

Rather than managing day-to-day trade labour, you will represent the owner’s operational and quality interests — overseeing third-party commissioning agents, general contractors, vendor field teams and engineering consultants. You will ensure critical mechanical, electrical and control systems move from installation through Level 1–5 commissioning verification to full operational handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Owner’s representative leadership: Act as the primary technical interface between project executives, design teams, general contractors and third-party commissioning agents to enforce quality control, compliance and design intent.
• Commissioning life-cycle: Oversee and audit Levels 1 through 5 commissioning protocols (factory acceptance testing, component verification, system construction verification, integrated systems testing and operational handover).
• Schedule and milestones: Monitor vendor manufacturing schedules and factory acceptance tests (FAT), identify critical-path bottlenecks early, and keep milestone verifications aligned with capital-project schedules.
• Deficiencies: Direct the tracking, root-cause analysis and resolution of commissioning issues, system deficiencies and equipment failovers before operational acceptance.
• Alignment: Work closely with cost-management and project-controls colleagues so that field modifications and testing adjustments are integrated into scope and schedule updates.

Requirements

• Technical background: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Building Services, Construction Management or a related field.
• Consultancy or owner’s rep: Proven experience operating within an independent consultancy, owner’s representative firm or client-side advisory team (rather than purely within general contracting).
• Mission-critical: Direct commissioning oversight or MEP management experience on complex technical facilities (for example data centers, high-tech manufacturing or critical infrastructure).
• Systems: Practical understanding of primary power-distribution systems (UPS, generators, switchgear), advanced cooling infrastructure and integrated building-management systems (BMS/EPMS).
• Credentials: Relevant industry accreditations or affiliations (such as RICS, CIBSE or equivalent technical credentials) are valued.

Compensation & Benefits

• Package: Competitive market benchmark + comprehensive benefits package.
• Culture: An independent, partner-led structure where advancement is guided by merit and client trust, free from corporate shareholder pressure, on high-impact technical advisory assignments.

Next Step

Interviews are being arranged now.

Why candidates choose HDi

We start with you, not with a requisition to fill. The people we place today are often the clients who hire us tomorrow. That only works if we treat the first conversation with care.

We know what a Quantity Surveyor is. We work in verticals — cost, project advisory, claims and dispute, built-environment leadership, and data center and mission-critical programmes — not as a generalist shop that learns your job from a Wikipedia page.

We are honest about salary and fit, even when the answer is no. We do not mailshot your curriculum vitae. We do not share it without your consent. That promise is written in full on our Candidate Charter.

We stay with you from the first call through interview, offer, resignation and start.

A major statewide consultancy in the United States, headquartered in New York, has hired us on a retainer.

We are working with a major international consultancy and have placed nearly forty people with them this year.

Our Candidate Charter: You are a person, not a placement. We are honest on salary and fit. Your curriculum vitae is never shared without your consent. We reply, even when there is no update. We stay with you through the whole move.

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