Offsite Commissioning Manager
Posted 16 Mar 2026
Advertised as “Senior Offsite Commissioning Manager”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyConstruction, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
ABOUT US
Holder Construction is a nationally recognized leader in the construction industry, consistently ranked among the top firms on ENR’s Top 400 Contractors list. We are a performance-driven company that believes in rewarding excellence and investing in our people. Our structured career development program empowers associates to grow quickly into expanded roles and responsibilities based on merit. With operations throughout the United States, we offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package, including:
- Annual bonus program
- Paid time off
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k)-retirement plan
- Night and swing shift differential pay for select roles
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Offsite Commissioning Manager to join our MEP Department team in our Washington, DC office. This is a full-time, in-person.
Key Responsibilities
- Review submittals, owner standards, specifications, and contract documents to ensure proper coordination with the onsite commissioning team.
- Review design documents, specifications, and submittals to verify commissioning requirements and test criteria.
- Review Factory Witness Testing (FWT) / Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) scripts and provide comments as necessary.
- Develop and manage the offsite commissioning plan, schedule, and resource allocation across multiple vendors and pre-fabrication sites.
- Develop and maintain commissioning checklists, test scripts, and verification documents.
- Develop and maintain touchpoints with vendors, integrators, owners, and onsite project teams to ensure equipment readiness and commissioning progress goals are met.
- Attend and host Factory Witness Testing (FWT) / Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), including creating formal reports and action items upon completion.
- Oversee component verification documentation and verify fabrication of equipment to ensure QA/QC oversight and compliance with specifications and owner standards.
- Validate equipment performance, integration points, controls programming, and quality standards prior to shipment.
- Manage vendor equipment reports for shipment approval prior to each equipment delivery and manage shipment deviation requests for equipment not completed prior to shipment.
- Identify issues or non-conformance early and drive corrective action with vendors and trade partners.
- Review L2 inspections including First of a Kind (FOAK) mock-ups, set-in-place inspections, pre-energization inspections, and final clean inspections.