MEPFP Field Commissioning Technician

About Us

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $8.1 billion in revenue for 2025, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for mission critical, industrial, life sciences, power & energy, aviation, commercial, institutional, residential and sports & entertainment related building projects.

The Role We Want You For

Lead the field staff in all phases of construction for the Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Protection (MEPF) systems on the project. Provide assistance to the project staff and ensure quality and timely execution of projects from design to completion. These phases include: Construction Phase, Acceptance Testing, Integrated System Testing, Close Out and Warranty Phase.

The Specifics of the Role

• Be a full-time presence to observe the MEPF construction process and be able to reach out to Clayco off-site personnel resources to advise on any questions or concerns.
• Able to understand, verify, coordinate, and provide solutions for what is actually installed versus the contract documents. This included drawings, specification, and basis of design.
• Able to verify, coordinate, discover and provide solutions to drawings and submittals review.
• Able to review and coordinate construction issues with other Clayco full-time onsite personnel for successful resolution.
• Able to generate Equipment Checkout Checklist and Functional Checklist for any piece of MEPFP equipment.
• Able to author Procore Items (Observations, Punch list, etc.)
• Able to run Commissioning Meeting, Pre-Meeting, Equipment Startup meeting, etc.
• Able to verify, coordinate and provides solutions for Life Safety verification and testing to ensure the jobsite occupancy.
• On the project site to oversee all the MEPF construction process
• Assisting in managing subcontractors and ensuring that they are performing as required
• Liaises with government, state, city, or municipal inspectors on the standard requirements of the site in terms of local ordinance or code
• Works through the problem with the Subcontractor being cost and time effective
• Follows the project construction process to ensure that it is completed in time
• Able to recognized construction schedule issues and convey to leadership.
• Ensure that quality is preserved in the construction process and that the schedule is maintained
• Writing project progress reports in liaison with the Superintendents and Construction Managers
• Continuously monitor productivity and percentage complete, identifying problems and potential delays, and provide solutions to overcome.
• Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills
• Inspects work for compliance with company standards. Requires poor work to be corrected immediately to minimize quality issues being placed on the punch list.
• Ability to identify, assimilate and comprehend the critical elements of a situation to extract and interpret implications of courses of actions to attend to details of a problem
• Effectiveness in planning and controlling work, motivating and developing subordinates, improving work methods and results, encouraging and supporting suggestions for work improvements, etc
• Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, and understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
• Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Ability to prepare and monitor realistic commissioning schedule and achieve full cooperation of superintendents, construction managers and subcontractors.
• Has good listening skills, builds strong relationships, is flexible/open-minded, negotiates effectively, solicits performance feedback and handles constructive criticism.
• Leads through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
• Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, understands others' roles and perspectives, and ideas across the organization.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of experience in commercial/industrial construction commissioning, on projects of 30+ million, ideally with design/build experience.
• Strong knowledge of construction principles/practices required
• Knowledge of Building Automation Controls.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with an adaptable and flexible style in working with all types of individuals
• Very experienced dealing with subcontracts, subcontractors and/or self-perform work
• Proficient at leading a successful project team, including development of employee and maintaining relationships with external entities
• Creative and results-oriented, with a strong sense of urgency
• Successfully commissioned projects of at least 30 million dollars or two smaller projects simultaneously
• Highly entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with the ability to work equally well on own as well as in a team environment.
• Experienced scheduling, dealing with subcontracts, subcontractors and/or self-perform work
• Creative and results-oriented, with a strong sense of urgency
• An above-average working knowledge of technology and related resources.
• Able to balance and prioritize multiple deadlines.

Some Things You Should Know

• Our clients and projects are nationwide – Travel will be required.
• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!

Why Clayco?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Top 400 – Top Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs and more!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: Education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.