Electrical commissioning
Switchgear, UPS and battery systems, generators and transfer switches. Load bank testing through energization.
Commissioning and controls engineers, tested under load.
Specialist search for US data center builds. Every engineer is screened level by level, L1 to L5, before an employer sees a name.
One niche.
Electrical, mechanical and controls commissioning. Nothing else.
One country.
US data center builds, wherever the site is.
One standard.
Every profile shows the levels performed, the levels led and the megawatts.
What we recruit
Mechanical commissioning
Chillers, CRAH units and fan walls, liquid-cooling loops. Flow, pressure and heat-load testing.
Controls, BMS and EPMS
Sequence-of-operations testing and point-to-point checkout across BMS, EPMS, PLC and SCADA.
Commissioning leads and managers
The people who write the scripts, run integrated systems testing and hand the building over.
Built for commissioning firms, controls integrators, electrical and mechanical contractors, and owner teams.
The expensive hire is the one who learns IST on your schedule.
The standard
A resume says “data center commissioning.” We say which levels, which systems and how many megawatts.
- L1
Factory witness testing
What they witnessed at the factory, and what they flagged before it shipped.
- L2
Delivery and installation verification
Whether they checked installed equipment against the drawings themselves.
- L3
Start-up and pre-functional checks
What they started up alongside the vendor.
- L4
Functional performance testing
Which system tests they ran, and which scripts they wrote.
- L5
Integrated systems testing
Whether they have led an IST, at how many megawatts, and what tripped first.
Five checks before any introduction
- Scopediscipline, systems and control platforms, by name
- Levelsperformed or led, L1 to L5
- Scaleprojects by megawatts and type of client
- Consistencyresume, LinkedIn history and interview compared
- Termspay, per diem, rotation, notice and work authorization confirmed
Specimen profile.An illustration of the format, not a real candidate.
Electrical commissioning lead
- L1 done
- L2 done
- L3 led
- L4 led
- L5 led
Done means performed under a lead. Led means they ran it.
- Systems
- 34.5 kV and 480 V switchgear, static UPS, 3 MW generators, STS, busway.
- Scale
- two ISTs led, at 24 MW and 36 MW, on a hyperscale campus.
- Certificates
- CxA, NFPA 70E, OSHA 30.
- Rotation
- 3 weeks on, 1 off, home base Dallas–Fort Worth.
- Seeking
- $155,000 base, per diem, flights home each rotation.
- Notice
- 2 weeks.
- Work authorization
- authorized to work in the US, no sponsorship needed.
Screen note
Wrote the L4 scripts for UPS and generator paralleling gear. On the second IST a main-tie-main transfer did not complete on loss of utility. Explains the cause, the fix and the retest without prompting.
For employers
How a search runs
- 01
Brief us
Twenty minutes on the role, the site, the systems and the rotation.
- 02
Agree terms
One page. One fee, due when your hire starts.
- 03
See the evidence
A short list of profiles in the format above. Names follow once each engineer agrees to be put forward for your role.
- 04
Hire
We schedule interviews, manage the offer and stay close through notice and the first weeks on site.
No named resume reaches you without the engineer's permission.
If a role sits outside commissioning and controls, we tell you and step aside.
Contract and contract-to-hire engagements are arranged case by case: ask us about the role.
Every permanent placement carries a 90-day guarantee: if the engineer leaves or is let go in that time, we search for a replacement at no further fee. Conditions are in our terms of business.
For engineers
Roles described the way you would describe them.
The terms come first
Pay, per diem and rotation in the first message, where we know them.
Your name stays with you
We put you forward one named role at a time, with your written permission each time. If the employer has not engaged us yet, we tell you before you decide.
A ten-minute technical screen
By voice or in writing, at a time you choose. The voice version is run by an AI interviewer with your consent. A person reviews every result, and software never turns anyone down.
Contract or permanent
Tell us which you want, or both.
One desk, one specialty.
Loadbank Talent is a founder-led search desk for the commissioning and controls engineers who bring US data centers into service. A load bank puts a real electrical load on generators and UPS systems before a data center goes live. We took the name because the work is the same: prove it under load before anyone depends on it.
UK-registered, working US hours. Calls run 9 am to 2 pm Eastern, Monday to Friday.
Tell us what you need on site, or what you want next.
Brief a search
For hiring managers. We reply within one business day.
Register as an engineer
Two minutes. We reply with roles that fit, or tell you we have none right now.