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About the Role
As Commissioning Lead, you will own testing, startup, and performance validation for our utility-scale microgrids, from hot and cold commissioning plans through energization, performance testing, and handover to operations. This is a senior leadership role for someone with a decade of field experience, based in Austin with heavy travel expected, primarily at our site in remote West Texas.
Responsibilities
- Lead testing, startup, and performance validation for utility-scale islanded microgrids, taking hundreds of MW of solar and grid-forming storage from construction complete to reliable operation.
- Develop and execute hot and cold commissioning plans and procedures, from pre-functional checks through full-system energization and performance testing.
- Create staffing plans covering FTEs and contracted support, and manage all commissioning resources against an aggressive energization schedule.
- Provide field quality assurance reviews during construction to ensure defects are caught and corrected before startup.
- Perform handover walkdowns and manage punchlists to closure with construction, OEM, and operations teams.
- Feed commissioning and test data back to power systems engineers and Tier-1 OEMs to validate system models and tune inverter and battery control settings.
- Enforce all site safety policies as the campus transitions from an active construction site to a live electrical plant.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience commissioning and starting up utility-scale power projects, ideally microgrids.
- 3+ years in a manager or lead role.
- Track record leading commissioning for multi-hundred-megawatt renewable projects, including both solar and BESS.
- Thorough understanding of AC and DC electrical systems.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting electrical systems and communications networks in the field.
- Experience building and managing commissioning teams that combine direct staff and contracted support.
- Willingness to travel heavily and spend sustained time at our site in remote West Texas.
Skills
- Commissioning
- Startup
- Performance validation
- Microgrids
- Solar
- BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems)
- AC electrical systems
- DC electrical systems
- Troubleshooting electrical systems
- Troubleshooting communications networks
- Team management
Location
- Austin
- Remote West Texas
Work Type
- Onsite
- Heavy Travel
Experience Level
- Senior Leadership
- 10+ years
- 3+ years in a lead/manager role
Benefits
- Up to $15K relocation bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- $1K monthly stipend for meals
About the Company
- TAR is building the world’s first off-grid power plant for data centers powered by renewable technologies.
- We are building GW-scale power faster than anyone has ever done by rethinking every layer of the stack.
- We vertically integrate to solve every bottleneck, from racking systems to power electronics to dispatch algorithms to on-site construction.
- TAR is both a hardware and software company, building massive, critical, physical infrastructure.
- Working directly with one of the largest compute providers to scale and deploy 5GWs by 2028.
- Operates on principles of high ownership, high agency, speed, first principles, no ego, no hierarchy, and passion.