Commissioning Manager

Michael Taylor Search & Selection Ltd
London
3 days ago
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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.


Description:

To provide strategic and tactical building services commissioning management support to the project team for the engineering process of a project primarily on commercial and critical environment projects. Focusing on quality in all aspects of commissioning management, including: planning, programming, reporting, collaborative working and witnessing. 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


DAY RATE: £450 - £550 per day


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.
  • Write, compile and provide technical input to the formal change control processes.
  • 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.
  • Ensure that all plant/systems have been fully commissioned / inspected in line with the contract specifications.
  • Monitor and advise when all the commissioning documentation has been reviewed and signed off by the appointed consultants for the project.
  • Review commissioning data against design parameters.
  • Ensure all parties are co-ordinated for attending witnessing.
  • Provide input to project risk register.
  • 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.
  • Compile ‘Close out’ documentation.
  • 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.

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