Startup Management

Startup Management

Location: Chandler, AZ

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: $86.78 $112.63 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

As a Senior Commissioning and Start-Up Manager, you will join a collaborative team delivering CSU services to clients who leads the critical transition of a fabrication facility (fab) from construction to full-scale manufacturing operations. The Commissioning Manager is accountable for the planning, coordination, and execution of commissioning and system start-up activities for the base build of a semiconductor fabrication facility. This role ensures all systems and infrastructure meet design intent, operational requirements, and readiness criteria for tool installation and production. From project inception, the Commissioning Manager partners closely with Project Controls and Construction to integrate commissioning logic into the master schedule, aligning construction sequencing with system start-up and phased turnover requirements.

The role also emphasizes the following core competencies:

• Collaborate: Actively seeks out others' opinions and input and is open-minded to their views. Challenges others appropriately and is also open to being challenged on their own views.
• Communicate: Is effective at adapting their communication style appropriately to their audience, providing context and using the right tone and level of information.
• Customer Focus: Prioritizes the customer needs and puts these at the forefront of all interactions. Ensures that others within their team maintain this same approach.
• Deliver: Demonstrates making well thought out, timely decisions and prioritization that leads to successful outcomes. Includes the right people at the right time.
• Problem Solve: Accurately assesses a situation to find the best solution or way of working in order to resolve the issues. Is focused on creating a long term fix rather than a short-term solution.
• Role Model: Contributes to the culture by inspiring and motivating others through their positive approach and attitude. Comes to work determined to do a good job, for themselves and for their team.

Key Responsibilities

Commissioning Strategy & Planning

• Develop commissioning execution strategy, sequences, and system turnover plans
• Define and integrate commissioning scope within overall project execution and schedule
• Establish phased cleanroom readiness strategies to support progressive tool installation

Scheduling & Integration

• Collaborate with project scheduling to ensure alignment between construction, pre-commissioning, and start-up activities
• Identify and manage system interdependencies impacting commissioning and start-up sequences
• Drive readiness milestones and turnover gates tied to construction completion and system availability

Execution & Start-Up

• Lead system commissioning, start-up, and performance verification activities
• Oversee development and execution of test plans, procedures, and validation protocols
• Manage troubleshooting and resolution of system deficiencies, including turndown and stability challenges under initial load conditions
• Interface with client stakeholders to ensure alignment on commissioning objectives and acceptance criteria
• Ensure effective communication of status, risks, and mitigation plans to project leadership
• Drive system completion, documentation, and turnover to operations
• Ensure operational readiness for manufacturing and integration of process tools
• Support ramp-up activities and stabilization of facility systems
• Scoping project drawings
• Complete the RASCI Matrix
• Support reviews of performance curves, metrics, trackers, and feedback to show trends, and use in improvements

Required Skills

• Proven leadership in commissioning large-scale semiconductors or high-tech manufacturing facilities
• Deep technical knowledge of Fab systems, including HVAC, process utilities, electrical, and controls
• Strong understanding of semiconductor industry standards and commissioning practices
• Expertise in integrated scheduling, system completion, and startup planning
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills for coordination with engineering, operations, and client teams
• Proven leadership and supervisory skills with a focus on mentorship and accountability
• Knowledge of ASHRAE Guidelines and Standards
• Identifies owner's goals, needs, and expectations for building operation and function; identifies the Commissioning (CSU) responsibilities
• Leadership or supervisory experience, ideally leading a Construction Automation Team on a jobsite
• Understand and have knowledge of Clean Rooms

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering, or Construction Management required

Required Experience

• Minimum of 15 years in engineering, or 20 years of experience in high-tech construction, cleanroom environments, or mission-critical facility commissioning

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This client is a trusted engineering, procurement, and construction partner operating across the energy, infrastructure, and nuclear sectors, with a project portfolio spanning more than 160 countries on all seven continents. Having delivered over 25,000 complex infrastructure projects in its more than 125-year history, the organization works at exceptional scale for national governments, global energy companies, and the world's largest public agencies. Teams here include civil and structural engineers, project controls specialists, procurement managers, project managers, and nuclear and environmental remediation professionals who collaborate on some of the most technically demanding and consequential construction engagements in the world.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-12983

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