Principal Commissioning

Role Overview

Project Leadership

• Develop and implement commissioning strategies and lead planning for large, complex projects.
• Oversee planning, scheduling, and resource allocation for commissioning phases.
• Lead readiness assessments, risk reviews, and constructability and commissionability evaluations.
• Advise on systems completion, turnover strategies, punch listing, walkdowns, and technical acceptance criteria.
• Support critical-path decisions during commissioning and early operations.

Execution Excellence

• Provide senior commissioning expertise on major projects in delivery or oversight and assurance roles.
• Lead or support Commissioning Execution Plans, systemization strategies, and sequence logic.
• Align engineering, construction, completions, commissioning, and operations teams.
• Travel to project sites for troubleshooting, readiness reviews, start-up preparation, and ramp-up optimization.
• Ensure commissioning deliverables meet safety, quality, and performance expectations.

Client Engagement and Growth

• Build client relationships, represent commissioning in key meetings, and provide trusted technical guidance.
• Lead proposal development, scopes of work, estimation, and execution strategies for commissioning engagements.
• Identify opportunities to expand commissioning, operational readiness, and ramp-up services.

Leadership and Improvement

• Mentor and coach emerging commissioning managers and foster safety, professional growth, and excellence.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across global teams.
• Drive innovation and process improvement with Hatch’s Global Director of Commissioning.
• Champion safety throughout commissioning activities.

Qualifications and Experience

• 15–25+ years of commissioning experience with leadership on major capital projects valued above $1 billion.
• Experience across diverse geographies and cultures, with demonstrated client engagement and business development success.
• Expertise in at least one of the metals, energy, or infrastructure sectors.
• Strategic planning and site execution leadership and management expertise.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and complexity-management skills.
• Additional operational readiness, asset management, or ramp-up experience is an asset.

Travel and Site Work

• Candidates must be willing to travel to teams, clients, and remote project sites as required.
• Site assignments may require fly-in/fly-out arrangements for periods of time.