FusionIRX is seeking an experienced Mechanical Commissioning Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support startup, commissioning, testing, and turnover activities for a large-scale semiconductor fabrication project in Boise, Idaho. The SME will provide technical leadership throughout installation verification, startup, controls validation, functional testing, integrated system testing, deficiency resolution, and final acceptance.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with complex facility systems in semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, mission-critical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or similar technical environments and can effectively collaborate with owners, engineers, contractors, vendors, and commissioning teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the mechanical commissioning technical lead through startup, testing, turnover, and acceptance.
- Review drawings, specifications, control sequences, submittals, RFIs, and commissioning requirements.
- Develop and review commissioning plans, procedures, test scripts, and turnover documentation.
- Verify installation, startup, controls integration, alarms, interlocks, balancing, and system performance.
- Identify and resolve technical and operational deficiencies.
- Participate in startup activities and functional and system testing.
- Maintain commissioning records, issue logs, testing documentation, and turnover packages.
- Communicate technical risks, system readiness, deficiencies, and schedule impacts to project leadership.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to commissioning personnel.
- Support coordination among project stakeholders and represent commissioning activities in meetings and field discussions.
Mechanical Systems Expertise
Strong commissioning experience with mechanical systems commonly found in semiconductor and advanced manufacturing facilities, including:
- HVAC systems (AHUs, MAUs, cleanroom HVAC, FFUs, VAV/CAV systems)
- Supply, return, exhaust, and specialty ventilation systems
- HEPA/ULPA filtration and cleanroom pressure control systems
- FMCS (Facility Monitoring and Control System), controls, instrumentation, alarms, and interlocks
- Chilled water, heating hot water, condenser water, and cooling tower systems
- Pumps, heat exchangers, hydronic systems, and process cooling water systems
- Plumbing, drainage, wastewater, and mechanical utility systems
- Associated controls, valves, sensors, dampers, actuators, and monitoring systems
Commissioning & Testing Expertise
Experience with:
- Installation verification and pre-functional inspections
- Equipment startup and controls verification
- Functional Performance Testing
- Integrated Systems Testing
- Testing and Balancing validation
- Airflow, pressure, temperature, and humidity verification
- Sequence of operation, alarm, and interlock testing
- Failure mode and emergency shutdown testing
- Deficiency management, retesting, and turnover activities
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in commissioning, construction, startup, controls, operations, testing, or related disciplines.
- Experience leading commissioning activities on large, technically complex projects.
- Strong understanding of commissioning from construction completion through final acceptance.
- Ability to interpret construction documents, controls diagrams, specifications, and technical documentation.
- Experience developing commissioning procedures, testing plans, and turnover strategies.
- Strong FMCS and controls troubleshooting experience.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through issue resolution.
- Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with CxAlloy or similar commissioning platforms preferred.
- Semiconductor, cleanroom, mission-critical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or advanced manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
Professional Attributes
- High level of integrity, professionalism, and accountability.
- Recognized technical expertise and sound engineering judgment.
- Collaborative leadership style with strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to provide clear technical direction and challenge issues when safety, quality, or performance are at risk.
- Commitment to mentoring, teamwork, and project success. [
Work Environment
This is an on-site contract position in Boise, Idaho supporting an active semiconductor construction project. The role requires field presence, participation in system walkdowns and testing activities, and compliance with all site safety and PPE requirements.
Benefits
FusionIRX is a specialty construction management firm focused exclusively on the most technically demanding facilities on earth — semiconductor fabs, data centers, and EV battery plants. We exist to give owners the expertise and discipline they need to succeed at this scale.
Advanced manufacturing facilities are among the most complex construction projects ever attempted. They involve thousands of interdependent work packages, ultra-high technical specifications, compressed delivery timelines, and regulatory environments that leave no room for error. FusionIRX was built to navigate this complexity on behalf of the people who own these facilities.
Our team brings decades of direct experience managing semiconductor fab construction, data center delivery, and EV battery plant development. We are not generalists who occasionally work on complex projects. This is all we do.
Subject Matter Expert (SME)