Commissioning Manager

Job Introduction

The Commissioning Manager’s role is to manage the delivery of a Commissioning test programme that confirms design intent against functional acceptance criteria to the customer.

The Commissioning Manager also reviews the commissionability of the design and provides the knowledge, leadership, management and support required to ensure commissioning work is executed to meet NNL company, legal, regulatory and project requirements.

The SQEP role of a Commissioning Manager is a key Environment, Health, Safety, Security & Quality Role (EHSS&Q) assigned to ‘In post Commissioning Staff’ who have demonstrated by qualification, experience and behavioural competencies that they are suitable to be assessed to take on specific duties and responsibilities.

Role Responsibility

Duties

• The Commissioning Manager is responsible for the delivery of assigned Commissioning Projects in a safe and timely manner in line with Commissioning standards.
• Delivering the commissioning work scope to an agreed strategy and plan in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Ensuring the relevant risks are identified early and managed/mitigated as appropriate. This includes regular monitoring of any residual risks.
• Ensuring a proactive and balanced approach to safety (Nuclear, radiological, conventional and environmental) to ensure that safety is optimised during commissioning.
• Reviewing commissioning progress and performance and taking appropriate corrective actions where necessary.
• Planning, balancing and prioritizing commissioning resources to support successful project delivery.
• Managing day to day liaison with personnel to obtain any necessary permissions and minimize impact to the project.
• Ensuring input to other project processes are incorporated, for example, design, commissionability, HAZOP, risk, contract and estimating, knowledge management etc.
• Ensure the implementation of ‘best practice’ in commissioning.
• Implement commissioning arrangements in compliance with relevant Nuclear Site Licence Conditions.
• Implement arrangements for the purpose of controlling, witnessing, recording and assessing the results of commissioning tests which may affect safety.
• Implement arrangements to ensure that full and accurate records of every commissioning test, which may affect safety, are retained.

   

  Accountabilities

The Commissioning Manager is accountable for:

• The accurate inclusion of the full commissioning work scope within the project baseline.
• Leading and coaching their team to maximise their efficiency and effectiveness to meet or better the project commissioning element baseline cost, schedule and quality requirements.
• Developing and executing effective commissioning strategies and plans in line with the overall project strategies and plans.
• Reporting commissioning progress.
• Identifying commissioning scope of work and assessment criteria in invitations to tender and their subsequent assessments.
• Ensure the commissioning activities are performed in accordance with the approved testing and commissioning program: including meeting cost and schedule commitments, and to provide a reliable product that meets agreed test acceptance and performance criteria.
• Ensuring testing and commissioning meaningfully demonstrates that the installed systems meet functional configuration and performance requirements.
• Assessing, authorising and maintaining the competence (SQEP) of NNL and contractor commissioning resources.
• Ensuring shared best practice and commissioning methods and procedures are used in completing the project commissioning scope.
• Discharging all Commissioning Management Intelligent Customer duties including the oversight and assurance of contractors engaged in commissioning work.
• Implementation of commissioning arrangements compatible to the capability commissioning ‘standard’; ensuring commissioning activities are conducted in accordance with company procedures, policy, legislative, regulatory, environmental, safety and quality requirements.
• Commissioning expenditures up to the approved authority limit.
• Appointment of commissioning team members.
• Permit the commencement and cessation of commissioning work.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential Skills/Qualifications

• Degree qualified in an appropriate discipline or relevant equivalent experience in a specific field

• Ability to understand technical solutions that are pragmatic and can be delivered on plant
• Good working knowledge of technology.
• Ability to proactively design, plan and carry out work.
• Excellent communication skills
• Good track record in delivering work

  
  Desirable Skills/Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer or working towards chartered status

About the Company

We play a key role in the UK and global nuclear industry. That means reducing the cost of clean-up and decommissioning, maintaining critical skills and attracting talented new people to the industry. We're the only UK organisation with the skills, facilities and expertise to provide technical support to all aspects of the nuclear industry. What's more, we pride ourselves on offering quality, value and service to every one of our customers.

United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory