Commissioning Director EMEA
Nscale is a London-based, full-stack AI cloud and infrastructure company that provides GPU compute, managed AI services, orchestration software, data centers, and power infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Nscale
Nscale builds and operates vertically integrated AI infrastructure spanning software, GPU compute, networking, storage, purpose-built data centers, and power. Its active cloud platform offers self-service inference endpoints, fine-tuning, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, virtual machines, and GPU clusters.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will establish and govern the commissioning standard for critical infrastructure across EMEA. You will lead capacity acceptance, operational-readiness transfers, technical testing, contractor requirements, and the development of an international commissioning team.
Requirements
- 15+ years of critical facilities engineering experience
- 8+ years leading commissioning at programme or portfolio level
- Owner-side or client-side accountability for accepting large-scale data-centre capacity
- Experience leading integrated systems testing through acceptance on at least two 50MW or greater hyperscale or AI data-centre projects
- Experience with high-density liquid-cooled deployments or equivalent adjacent expertise
- High-voltage and medium-voltage commissioning experience
- Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams across borders
- Knowledge of EPC contracts, acceptance mechanisms, warranties, and claims evidence
- Experience across multiple regulatory jurisdictions
- Electrical or mechanical engineering degree or equivalent expertise
- Ability to travel internationally 60–70%, including remote Arctic sites in winter
- Right to work in the United Kingdom or Norway, or eligibility for sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Author and enforce the Group Commissioning Execution Standard
- Approve or refuse system energisation, acceptance, and handover
- Select and govern a portfolio-wide commissioning management platform
- Integrate commissioning into project programmes and identify delivery risks
- Define acceptance and turnover requirements in EPC and OEM packages
- Lead liquid-cooling and high-consequence electrical testing methodologies
- Build and develop an internationally mobile commissioning function
- Lead operational readiness and transfer accepted capacity to Operations
- Set safe systems of work for energisation and testing
- Lead commissioning relationships with tenants, lenders, insurers, and certification bodies
Benefits
- Relocation support