Commissioning Managers

Full Job Description

Based - Cumbria

Commissioning Manager

• Be part of some of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects.
• Exciting leadership role on a major project.
• Join a programme dedicated to driving your career forward.
• Structured career paths supported by quality internal and external training.
• Competitive pay and reward packages.
• Opportunities to work across multiple projects throughout your career.
• We welcome people from all backgrounds and our partnership recently earned the Investors in Diversity Award from the National Centre for Diversity.

About PPP

The Programme and Project Partners (PPP) at Sellafield brings together KBR, Jacobs, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Altrad Babcock, Sellafield Ltd as the client, and a wider supply chain to deliver a 20-year pipeline of major infrastructure projects.

This 20-year pipeline of work along with the size, scale and complexity of our projects allows us to offer our people rewarding long-term opportunities with the ability to develop their skills and progress their careers.

The PPP Start Up Capability (Commissioning & Pre-Operations) play a vital part in all the projects by ensuring our new-build or modified plants are transitioned to safe and reliable operations. With several major projects already in-flight and other projects in the pipeline now is a great time to join PPP and drive your career forward.

The role

As a Commissioning Manager you will manage the delivery of a Commissioning test programme that confirms design intent against functional acceptance criteria to the Client. You will manage teams of Leads, Engineers, and Technicians often across various locations to ensure commissioning work is executed to meet legal, regulatory and project requirements. People management and leadership are key elements of this role as you will set and approve delivery plans as well as manage work progress and performance and, where appropriate, take the necessary corrective actions. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Commissioning Professional with proven leadership skills play a key role in delivering major projects as part of PPP and develop their career into a Senior Management role in the future.

The ideal person

You will have a Degree/ Level 6 qualification in a relevant discipline as well as experience in managing a multi-disciplined engineering teams delivering technical packages with demonstrable evidence of success against agreed project schedules. You’ll also have experience in managing commissioning activities in a highly regulated environment on large scale projects.

Communication will be one of your key strengths as you will manage an array of stakeholders across the project and wider program as well as holding direct line management responsibility for your own teams.

Experience of being a Commissioning Manager in the Nuclear Industry would be desirable but we are keen to hear from you if you are a Team Leader who is ready to take the step up.