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Commissioning Manager

Dagenham
3 weeks ago
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Our Client:

Are an industry leading Commissioning and Technical Project Management consultancy operating across the UK and worldwide. The company has over 20 years of experience delivering customised and complex solutions – spanning a wide range of sectors and projects including data centres, pharmaceutical laboratories and office fit out.

Key to their successes is sound technical knowledge, intelligent decision making, efficient reporting and high standards of implementation to ensure projects are delivered on time and to budget.

Project: Data Centre in Dagenham - 44MW

Pay Rate: £450 - £500 (Own Ltd Co.)

General Duties:

As a Commissioning Manager, you will manage and drive the commissioning process and lead the on-site functional testing. To succeed in this role, it is important that you have experience in technical buildings, good communication, and people skills and resourceful

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the commissioning process with the contractors and professional teams ensuring that effective communication takes place within the wider project management team. Manage the proper compliance of the project process at each stage.

  • Perform commissionability and design reviews.

  • Implement and manage quality assurance (QA) and quality controls (QC) procedures with respect to all aspects of the commissioning process.

  • Issue weekly commissioning report.

  • Ensure that regular reviews of construction against the approved design take place and any mitigation/recovery plans are implemented.

  • Manage, coordinate, review and input to the commissioning procedures and review commissioning RAMS prior to commissioning activities.

  • Attend and report on commissioning and testing as appropriate.

  • Review commissioning data against design parameters.

  • Co-ordinate, plan and schedule training with the project team and ensure all documentation is created and approved in ample time.

  • Organise, chair and minute commissioning meetings, ensuring actions are issued, managed and closed out.

  • Review and assist sub-contractors in the development of all project related QA/QC documentation.

  • Write test script and integrated systems test (IST) scripts and co-ordinate, ensuring input from all parties throughout the project.

  • Witness on site functional testing of plant, equipment and systems.

  • Ensure that all appropriate commissioning handover documentation has been reviewed and approved prior to handover.

  • Ensure that commissioning defects are communicated properly and dealt with.

  • Create and manage handover commissioning checklists and close-out report.

  • Pass comment on contractors SOO (sequence of operations) schedules.

  • Pass comment on O&M manuals produced by the contractor.

    Key Skills include, but are not limited to:

  • Technical engineering excellence in Mechanical, Electrical or BMS engineering

  • Will to learn more

  • Excellent IT, planning, and reporting skills are essential

  • Proactive and problem-solving nature

  • Good communication skills

  • Excellent IT skills

  • Team Player

  • Works well under pressure

  • Good planning and reporting skills

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