Commissioning Manager

Morson Talent are currently working in partnership with our client who are a major UK water company who deliver water & wastewater services to over 4.5 million households and business across the midlands. They currently have a need for a Commissioning Manager to join the Capital Delivery Team, ideally based from their offices in Tamworth but would consider candidates to work from Derby or Coventry.

You will lead and mentor a group of diverse commissioning engineers, ensuring successful delivery of our capital works programme over a wide variety of construction projects and process’s, many of which will be market leading within the water industry.

You will work closely with the Programme management team to allocate staff to high-risk projects working closely with the supply chain ensuring timely delivery upon programme, cost and quality with an emphasis upon excellent Health and Safety.

You will also support the team upon individual projects where necessary, share your experience ensuring good succession planning is matured.

You will maintain and evolve our commissioning documentation and processes, you will drive quality through the supply chain, ensuring a consistent approach to commissioning, both at site and through the planning process. You will guide and mentor our delivery partners in this field, promote new initiatives in terms of both treatment process and personable Health and Safety.

Key Accountabilities:

• Working alongside the Design and Delivery teams and contract partners, with key stakeholder engagement you will be responsible for ensuring efficient and optimized delivery of a programme of works through the deployment of Commissioning engineer resources.
• Resource individual projects appropriately to ensure the provision of technical support and assistance to operations teams during commissioning and handover of projects
• Management of key / escalated stakeholders. Ensuring that the team respond to and address incidents with the Project Manager as and when they occur and ensure the root cause is identified and actions taken to prevent re-occurrence.
• Drive the identification and management of risks which could impact on the successful delivery of the Capital Programme, ensure compliance with external legislation and statutory obligations
• Ensure effective operation of the commissioning process, review processes and maintenance regimes, liaise with stakeholders across supply chain and Operational colleagues
• Develop technical and leadership capabilities within your team, actively managing performance and supporting development opportunities for team members
• Lead the commissioning team, drive a positive ‘can do’ attitude, through support and direct leadership
• Drive the ‘Health and Safety’ standards programme within the team, encourage new ideas or initiatives and promote a safety focused culture within the group
• Manage the team’s skills matrix, support and develop new learning for the good of the individual and wider company
• Contribute to problem resolution in areas where no single solution necessarily exists and/or where no standard applies. Support design teams, share experience and industry best practice
• Respond to and address incidents with the stakeholders as and when they occur and ensure the root cause is identified and actions taken to prevent re-occurrence

Experience & Technical Skills

• Be able to demonstrate successful examples of project delivery
• Expertise and demonstrable experience in the verification of plant processes and performance
• Plant acceptance on behalf of Client organisations
• Overview knowledge of NEC Conditions of Contract
• Experience of supply chain management (with emphasis on financial, H&S, outputs, and quality)
• Risk management knowledge and understanding
• Experience of working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to deliver project objectives
• Planning and implementation skills
• Management of a high performing team and getting the best out of individuals
• Good process knowledge, not necessarily within the water industry, food, power etc may be an option
• Good process automation understanding/skills
• Electrically competent, some base qualifications, HNC/D, 18th Edition etc, ability to read electrical schematics, fault finding techniques etc…
• Commissioning Strategizing and planning, what does this look like and recognise the importance thereof
• Evidence of bringing plant to life, including interfaces with existing systems, involving key stakeholders and management thereof, delivery techniques