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Commissioning Manager jobs on OPT involve overseeing system testing, verification, and handover for construction, energy, or industrial projects. Your 12-month OPT window (up to 24 additional months on STEM OPT) covers full project cycles, making early employer engagement on H-1B visa sponsorship essential.
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WSP USA is initiating a search for a Full-time Intermediate Consultant - Commissioning for our New York office. Other locations such as New Jersey and Virginia will be considered.
Job Description
Our engineers work on high quality, high-profile, national and international projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for the execution of building commissioning processes (new/re/retro/continuous), energy auditing and building retrofit applications, support for sustainability certification applications, and measurement and verification techniques.
WSP USA offers excellent growth opportunities: Many of our senior leaders started out as young engineers in our firm. Initially, you will work under the supervision, training, and guidance of the senior commissioning leadership. Preliminary participation in business development activities will also be encouraged.
Specific Requirements:
- Knowledge of 480-Volt electrical systems, executing / witnessing electrical testing utilizing equipment such as power quality meters, circuit breaker test sets, contact/insulation resistance meters and infrared cameras.
- Knowledge of Uninterruptable Power Supply’s (UPS), Back Up Battery Systems, Static Switches (STS) and Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS), Emergency Generators and Power Distribution Units (PDUs).
- Experience with witnessing and executing pre-functional, functional and integrated electrical testing.
- Knowledge of NETA, IEEE and NFPA-70 electrical testing standards.
- Knowledge of Short Circuit/Coordination/ Arc Flash Studies.
- An understanding of the architectural, engineering and construction industry.
- Understanding sustainable design practices or facilities operations is preferred.
- Ability to work independently and under supervision in a highly collaborative team environment.
Your Impact
- Assist with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site during various construction phases, surveys, blueprints, schematics, data, technical drawings, flow diagrams, computer-generated reports, and other matrices for project energy auditing actions, validation, and commissioning.
- Assist with professional building and system commissioning work by conducting research and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, equipment, resources, layout, usage, and systems to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, codes, and installation or operating permits.
- Assist with development of testing specifications, and readiness plans; preparing and updating checklists/punch lists and cost estimates that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients.
- Involved from project inception to completion for commissioning work deliverables throughout the various project work phases including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, integration, installation, and operation.
- Assist with advanced technologies, monitoring, modeling techniques, design requirements, load calculations, and operating strategies to account for the proper installation and functioning of equipment and systems according to specifications, implementing future-ready solutions with building systems operating standards.
- Assist cross-functional teams with executing project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, technical calculations, permit applications, schematics, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos.
- Assist with commissioning and operational plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
- Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, sketches, calculations, cross-sections, technical drawings, spreadsheets, and other 2D/3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses.
- Maintain quality control standards, document logs of control and equipment functionality testing and verification, and procedures for accurate and precise measurements, calculations, statistical analysis, and reporting.
- Assist with development and scoping of medium- to large-sized commissioning projects.
- Provide guidance and training to entry-level to mid-level commissioning staff.
- Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, and recommendations to navigate, improve, prevent, control, restore, or address design, and/or installation/operational issues or opportunities.
- Analyze, evaluate, and interpret data obtained during site assessments, offering input with developing action plans for moderate- to high-level risk installation, equipment operations, and/or mitigation activities.
- Interact with any applicable regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner.
- Collaborate with other professionals, engineers, inspectors, project control, and technicians on public and privately funded building improvement and development projects, as well as proposal and business development opportunities.
- Remain current in latest commissioning techniques and practices.
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Construction-related field or equivalent years of related industry experience.
- 1-3 years of relevant post education experience in discipline with prior building and systems commissioning experience.
- Knowledge of building commissioning principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to project work-related issues.
- Technical knowledge of building systems to evaluate and test the performance of these systems.
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $81,000 - $105,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
INTRODUCTION
WSP USA is initiating a search for a Full-time Intermediate Consultant - Commissioning for our New York office. Other locations such as New Jersey and Virginia will be considered.
Job Description
Our engineers work on high quality, high-profile, national and international projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for the execution of building commissioning processes (new/re/retro/continuous), energy auditing and building retrofit applications, support for sustainability certification applications, and measurement and verification techniques.
WSP USA offers excellent growth opportunities: Many of our senior leaders started out as young engineers in our firm. Initially, you will work under the supervision, training, and guidance of the senior commissioning leadership. Preliminary participation in business development activities will also be encouraged.
Specific Requirements:
- Knowledge of 480-Volt electrical systems, executing / witnessing electrical testing utilizing equipment such as power quality meters, circuit breaker test sets, contact/insulation resistance meters and infrared cameras.
- Knowledge of Uninterruptable Power Supply’s (UPS), Back Up Battery Systems, Static Switches (STS) and Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS), Emergency Generators and Power Distribution Units (PDUs).
- Experience with witnessing and executing pre-functional, functional and integrated electrical testing.
- Knowledge of NETA, IEEE and NFPA-70 electrical testing standards.
- Knowledge of Short Circuit/Coordination/ Arc Flash Studies.
- An understanding of the architectural, engineering and construction industry.
- Understanding sustainable design practices or facilities operations is preferred.
- Ability to work independently and under supervision in a highly collaborative team environment.
Your Impact
- Assist with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site during various construction phases, surveys, blueprints, schematics, data, technical drawings, flow diagrams, computer-generated reports, and other matrices for project energy auditing actions, validation, and commissioning.
- Assist with professional building and system commissioning work by conducting research and inspections of proposed and existing site conditions, equipment, resources, layout, usage, and systems to determine conformance with applicable rules, standards, codes, and installation or operating permits.
- Assist with development of testing specifications, and readiness plans; preparing and updating checklists/punch lists and cost estimates that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients.
- Involved from project inception to completion for commissioning work deliverables throughout the various project work phases including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, integration, installation, and operation.
- Assist with advanced technologies, monitoring, modeling techniques, design requirements, load calculations, and operating strategies to account for the proper installation and functioning of equipment and systems according to specifications, implementing future-ready solutions with building systems operating standards.
- Assist cross-functional teams with executing project work on mid-level and/or multiple concurrent projects, including budgets, tracking hours and expenses, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, technical calculations, permit applications, schematics, construction, compliance documentation, and regulatory and technical analysis memos.
- Assist with commissioning and operational plans, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
- Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, sketches, calculations, cross-sections, technical drawings, spreadsheets, and other 2D/3D illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses.
- Maintain quality control standards, document logs of control and equipment functionality testing and verification, and procedures for accurate and precise measurements, calculations, statistical analysis, and reporting.
- Assist with development and scoping of medium- to large-sized commissioning projects.
- Provide guidance and training to entry-level to mid-level commissioning staff.
- Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, and recommendations to navigate, improve, prevent, control, restore, or address design, and/or installation/operational issues or opportunities.
- Analyze, evaluate, and interpret data obtained during site assessments, offering input with developing action plans for moderate- to high-level risk installation, equipment operations, and/or mitigation activities.
- Interact with any applicable regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner.
- Collaborate with other professionals, engineers, inspectors, project control, and technicians on public and privately funded building improvement and development projects, as well as proposal and business development opportunities.
- Remain current in latest commissioning techniques and practices.
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Construction-related field or equivalent years of related industry experience.
- 1-3 years of relevant post education experience in discipline with prior building and systems commissioning experience.
- Knowledge of building commissioning principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to project work-related issues.
- Technical knowledge of building systems to evaluate and test the performance of these systems.
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $81,000 - $105,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Commissioning Manager
Target engineering-heavy industries first
Oil and gas, renewable energy, and large-scale construction firms hire Commissioning Managers regularly and have established H-1B visa sponsorship pipelines. These sectors are more accustomed to visa processes than smaller specialty contractors.
Leverage your STEM OPT extension
A degree in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering qualifies for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. That three-year total window covers two full H-1B lottery cycles, significantly improving your odds of securing long-term sponsorship.
Quantify commissioning experience concretely
Employers and USCIS both need to see specialty occupation evidence. Document the systems you commissioned, team sizes managed, and project values. Specific technical scope strengthens both your application and any future H-1B petition.
Engage the H-1B conversation before accepting offers
Ask directly whether the company has sponsored H-1B visas for engineering managers before. Companies with prior petitions on record have internal processes ready, reducing delays when your OPT authorization approaches its end date.
Pursue professional certifications strategically
Credentials like PMP, CIRO, or NCCER Commissioning certifications demonstrate specialty occupation standing beyond your degree. These strengthen your H-1B petition narrative and differentiate you from candidates without formal commissioning credentials.
Build relationships with project-side decision makers
Hiring decisions for Commissioning Managers often sit with project directors or engineering leads, not HR. Direct relationships with technical stakeholders improve sponsorship conversations because they understand the role's specialized nature firsthand.
Commissioning Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Commissioning Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, Commissioning Manager roles typically qualify as specialty occupations because they require at minimum a bachelor's degree in engineering, systems integration, or a related technical discipline. The role involves complex technical judgment, regulatory compliance, and cross-disciplinary coordination that supports the specialty occupation standard. Your employer's attorney will document this when filing the H-1B petition.
Can I work as a Commissioning Manager on OPT without a sponsoring employer immediately lined up?
Yes. OPT authorizes you to work in a role directly related to your field of study without employer sponsorship during the OPT period itself. You must secure employment within 90 days of your OPT start date to avoid accruing unemployment. Browse Commissioning Manager roles on Migrate Mate to find employers actively open to OPT candidates.
Which industries hire the most Commissioning Managers who sponsor OPT and H-1B visas?
Energy (oil, gas, and renewables), data center construction, industrial manufacturing, and large infrastructure firms are the most active hirers. These sectors run multi-year capital projects that require dedicated commissioning oversight, making them more willing to invest in visa sponsorship for qualified engineers who can manage full project handover cycles.
How does the 90-day unemployment rule affect Commissioning Managers on OPT between projects?
USCIS counts unemployment days cumulatively across your OPT period, not per employer. If you finish one commissioning project and spend time between contracts, those gaps count toward your 90-day limit. Contract or project-based roles are common in commissioning, so tracking your cumulative gap days carefully is essential to maintaining valid OPT status.
What should I look for in an employer to maximize my H-1B sponsorship chances as a Commissioning Manager?
Prioritize employers with prior H-1B filing history in engineering roles, internal legal or immigration teams, and long project timelines that extend beyond your OPT period. Mid-to-large engineering, energy, or EPC firms are better positioned to sponsor than small specialty contractors. Migrate Mate surfaces employers who have sponsored OPT and visa candidates before, making it easier to focus your search.