Time left to apply End Date: December 13, 2024 (19 days left to apply)
Job requisition id R22027
If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.
What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?
For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent – Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.
AWE is currently recruiting for a number of Commissioning Managers across Electrical, Mechanical & C&I disciplines. The role will underpin an exciting phase of Capital new build projects in support of the company’s strategic goals.
Location: Reading area
Package: £47,690 – £62,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience) + allowance
As part of our People Promise, AWE has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:
1. Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
2. Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
3. Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
4. Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
5. A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
6. Life Assurance
7. Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
8. Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
9. A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing – more information available on our careers site
What will you be required to do?
1. Appropriately organise Commissioning Teams and ensure key personnel are demonstrably competent to undertake their roles.
2. Organise and act as Chair for the Test and Commissioning Panel (T&CP) for their assigned projects.
3. Act as the Intelligent Customer providing an in-house capability being responsibility for the ownership, management and delivery of any commissioning services being provided by the implementation contractor.
4. Provide technical review of all commissioning documentation being processed through the T&CP within their discipline.
5. Represent commissioning at design review meetings and the production of commission ability reports for each stage of the design as required.
6. Write commissioning procedures or manage their content, production and approval via the T&CP
7. Review construction complete documentation to ensure that newly constructed systems are ready and safe for commissioning test activities to commence.
8. Ensure that commissioning activities follow the appropriate Project Delivery Map from design support through to handover to end user.
9. Ensure that sufficient tests are conducted and results are correlated to ensure that the system requirements have been validated.
10. Ensure commissioning test procedures are followed and signed off with full and accurate records of the test results.
11. Ensure commissioning records are maintained to support project handover and systems lifecycle.
12. Witness site and offsite commissioning tests as required.
13. Production of Commissioning Strategy and Commissioning Reports for their assigned projects.
14. Be responsible for the professional development, performance and ethical standards of the staff within their responsibility and reporting chain.
Minimum Requirements:
1. The Commissioning Manager shall hold an appropriate qualification in a relevant engineering discipline; Degree/ONC/HNC/HND or equivalent experience.
2. The Commissioning Manager shall have a proven track record and bring extensive knowledge and experience of the process of commissioning new plant in a multi-discipline, safety-critical and highly-regulated industry. Experience within the nuclear industry in particular would be desirable, but is not essential.
3. The Commissioning Manager shall lead the project team’s thinking in creating a strategic vision for the commissioning phase.
4. The Commissioning Manager shall be able to effectively communicate and influence both internally and externally to AWE.
5. The Commissioning Manager shall be able to effectively impart their knowledge and experience onto the growing Commissioning team within AWE.
6. Membership of an appropriate professional institute as an incorporated engineer with equivalent academic or vocational certification (Desirable).
7. Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role and be willing and able to work in designated areas.
Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
About AWE
If you’re looking for a role with excitement, intrigue and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE. We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before.
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