Commissioning Coordinator (Saudi National Only)

Role Overview

Commissioning Coordinator at Decima International in KSA. This role supports commissioning activities for major mission-critical and data center projects, working alongside the Commissioning Manager to ensure project readiness and successful system handover.

Company Overview

Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. The company's mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors it engages in, built on three core principles: partnering with clients, attracting and developing talented professionals, and maintaining excellence through regulated growth.

Role Purpose

Support the Commissioning Manager in coordinating all commissioning readiness activities, tracking L1–L5 commissioning phases, maintaining comprehensive commissioning documentation, monitoring open issues and corrective actions, and facilitating coordination among contractors, consultants, vendors, and stakeholders through testing, turnover, and handover.

Key Responsibilities

Commissioning Planning & Coordination

• Support implementation and maintenance of the Project Commissioning Management Plan.
• Coordinate commissioning activities across contractors, consultants, vendors, and project stakeholders.
• Support coordination of L1–L5 commissioning activities, Functional Performance Testing, and Integrated Systems Testing.
• Coordinate test schedules, witnessing requirements, vendor attendance, and required project resources.

Scheduling & Progress Tracking

• Maintain and update commissioning schedules, trackers, dashboards, and progress reports.
• Track commissioning readiness against project milestones and stage-gate requirements.
• Support preparation of commissioning progress reports, dashboards, meeting minutes, and management updates.

Documentation & Records Management

• Maintain commissioning test scripts, procedures, method statements, inspection records, and supporting documentation.
• Track commissioning submissions, approvals, comments, and outstanding documentation.
• Verify that commissioning test records, certificates, reports, and turnover packages are properly compiled and submitted.
• Maintain accurate records within electronic commissioning management and document control systems.

Issue & Action Management

• Monitor commissioning issues, punch items, deficiencies, and corrective actions through closure.
• Track commissioning submissions, approvals, comments, and outstanding documentation.
• Assist in maintaining commissioning issue logs, action registers, and risk trackers.
• Escalate significant commissioning delays, constraints, risks, and readiness gaps to the Commissioning Manager.

Readiness & Handover Coordination

• Support readiness assessments by ensuring required documentation, systems, personnel, and prerequisites are available.
• Coordinate with contractors and vendors to resolve outstanding commissioning actions and documentation gaps.
• Coordinate system turnover and handover documentation with construction, commissioning, document control, and operations teams.
• Support final project acceptance and operational readiness activities.

Stakeholder & Meeting Management

• Organize commissioning meetings and follow up on assigned actions and deadlines.
• Coordinate effectively with contractors, consultants, vendors, engineers, and project management teams.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

Experience

• Relevant experience supporting commissioning activities on construction, mission-critical, industrial, or data center projects.
• Good understanding of mechanical, electrical, controls, and mission-critical MEP systems.
• Familiarity with commissioning planning, testing, documentation, and handover processes.
• Understanding of L1–L5 commissioning processes.
• Exposure to Functional Performance Testing and Integrated Systems Testing.
• Experience maintaining commissioning trackers, issue logs, action registers, and testing documentation.
• Good understanding of turnover documentation, test records, certificates, and handover packages.

Preferred Experience

• Previous experience on data center or mission-critical projects.
• Exposure to hyperscale data center commissioning environments.
• Familiarity with ASHRAE commissioning guidelines.
• Familiarity with CSA, BSRIA, or other recognized commissioning standards and frameworks.
• Commissioning-related certification such as CxA, ACG, BCxP, or equivalent.
• Experience using electronic commissioning management systems.
• Experience with electronic document control and turnover platforms.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary MEP commissioning activities.
• Previous experience working within a PMC, consultant, or client-side project management environment.

Skills & Competencies

Technical Skills

• MEP systems understanding.
• L1–L5 commissioning tracking.
• Testing and documentation coordination.
• Turnover and handover coordination.
• Electronic Commissioning Management Systems.
• Commissioning tracking tools.
• Document control and turnover platforms.
• Microsoft Excel.
• Microsoft Word.
• Microsoft PowerPoint.

Core Competencies

• Commissioning coordination.
• Issue and action tracking.
• Stakeholder coordination.
• Progress reporting.
• Attention to detail.
• Organization and prioritization.
• Communication and follow-up.
• Problem solving.

Professional Qualities

• Strong coordination and organizational skills.
• Ability to follow multiple commissioning activities and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail and documentation accuracy.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with contractors, consultants, vendors, engineers, and project management teams.

Additional Information

• Saudi National Only.
• Decima International is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the safety and well-being of all.