APAC Commissioning Lead

Ada Infrastructure is a global data center business committed to being a positive force for technology, people, and the planet. As part of the digital infrastructure platform of Ares Management Corporation (NYSE:ARES), a leading global alternative investment manager, Ada Infrastructure is positioned to be a leader in the industry in reliable, safe, secure, and sustainable digital infrastructure. With eight in-flight campuses across Japan, the UK, and Brazil, we have over 850 MW of power currently available and more than 1,500 MW in our global pipeline. To learn more about Ada Infrastructure, visit www.adainfrastructure.com or to learn more about Ares Management visit www.aresmgmt.com.

Job Description

APAC Commissioning Lead

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Ada Infrastructure is a global data center business committed to being a positive force for technology, people, and the planet. As part of the digital infrastructure platform of Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), a leading global alternative investment manager, Ada Infrastructure is positioned to be a leader in reliable, safe, secure, and sustainable digital infrastructure. With in-flight campuses across Japan and other global markets, Ada is focused on developing, delivering, and operating scalable data center infrastructure for customers.

Job Description

About the company:

Ada Infrastructure is part of the digital infrastructure platform of Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across credit, real estate, private equity, and infrastructure asset classes.

We are a global data center business grounded in sustainability, safety, and security. Ada Infrastructure is executing on our mission to lead the world in sustainable digital infrastructure that drives customer success and social benefit.

Why Join Us:

This role is an excellent opportunity to join a deeply experienced and high-performing team with the opportunity to directly impact Ada APAC’s growth. As Ada expands its APAC portfolio, commissioning will be critical to ensuring that facilities are safely tested, fully integrated, operationally ready, and delivered to customers with predictable quality, performance, and reliability.

The Team you are joining:

The Ada Japan / APAC team is responsible for developing, delivering, and operating Ada data centers across the APAC region. We collaborate cross-functionally and partner with global and regional teams to drive efficient and effective solutions that meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders. The team works across development, design, delivery, operations, safety, security, procurement, commercial, and customer-facing functions to deliver scalable and future-ready data center campuses.

Summary:

The APAC Commissioning Lead is responsible for defining, managing, and governing Ada APAC’s end-to-end commissioning strategy across development and delivery projects. This role ensures that mission-critical systems are properly tested, integrated, documented, and handed over before Ready for Service.

This role also owns the end-to-end management of third-party Commissioning Agents across APAC, including vendor prequalification, RFI/RFP development, proposal evaluation, award recommendation, onboarding, scope management, performance governance, and ongoing vendor management throughout project execution.

The role provides regional leadership for commissioning standards, execution planning, vendor coordination, testing governance, quality control, issue resolution, operational readiness, and customer acceptance support. The APAC Commissioning Lead works closely with delivery, design, operations, safety, security, procurement, and external commissioning agents to ensure commissioning is planned early, executed safely, and completed with clear evidence of system performance.

This position is expected to create regional consistency while adapting global minimum commissioning requirements to local project conditions, utility interfaces, contractor capabilities, customer requirements, and operational handover needs.

Responsibilities:

· Lead Ada APAC’s commissioning strategy and execution across data center development and delivery projects.

· Define, publish, and maintain APAC commissioning requirements, procedures, templates, reporting cadence, and acceptance criteria by collaborating with Global commissioning lead.

· Establish commissioning governance from design development through construction, Level 1 to Level 5 testing, integrated systems testing, operational readiness, customer acceptance, and Ready for Service.

· Ensure commissioning requirements are embedded early into design, procurement, construction packaging, schedule development, contractor scopes, and project execution plans.

· Partner with design, delivery, operations, safety, security, and customer-facing teams to confirm that commissioning plans support operational reliability, maintainability, safety, security, and customer commitments.

· Review and approve commissioning plans, method statements, test scripts, inspection and test plans, integrated systems testing procedures, and commissioning schedules.

· Provide oversight of general contractors, commissioning agents, trade contractors, equipment vendors, and specialist consultants to ensure commissioning is executed safely, consistently, and to Ada standards.

· Establish clear commissioning KPIs and reporting requirements, including test readiness, test completion, defect closure, retest status, critical issue aging, documentation completion, and handover readiness.

· Lead regular commissioning reviews with project teams and escalate risks that may impact safety, quality, schedule, cost, operational readiness, or Ready for Service.

· Ensure commissioning activities are coordinated with construction completion, energization, utility interfaces, equipment vendor support, controls integration, security systems, network readiness, and operations handover.

· Drive early identification and resolution of commissioning risks (commissionability), including design gaps, incomplete installation, vendor readiness, equipment defects, controls integration issues, documentation gaps, and insufficient operational training by actively participating in design review meetings.

· Support project schedule governance by defining required commissioning milestones, logic, dependencies, float consumption, and readiness gates between construction completion, substantial completion, commissioning completion, and Ready for Service.

· Ensure commissioning evidence is properly documented, reviewed, approved, and retained in the required systems of record.

· Support customer-facing commissioning discussions, technical reviews, witness testing, acceptance planning, and issue resolution as required.

· Establish a lessons-learned loop from commissioning findings, recurring defects, late-stage design issues, vendor performance, and operational handover feedback to improve Ada standards, product requirements, specifications, and future project execution.

· Serve as the regional subject matter expert for commissioning and provide executive-ready insight to Ada APAC leadership on commissioning status, risks, readiness, and required interventions.

· Maintain commissioning agent KPI scorecards covering schedule performance, test readiness, test execution, defect closure, deliverable quality, resource adequacy, safety performance, stakeholder coordination, handover readiness, and lessons learned.

· Manage commissioning agent performance throughout project execution, including quality of deliverables, resource adequacy, responsiveness, issue resolution, schedule compliance, and adherence to Ada standards.

· Lead technical evaluation of commissioning service providers and provide recommendations for vendor selection and award decisions.

· Develop commissioning agent sourcing str