Commissioning Manager

About the role

Balfour Beatty is recruiting a Commissioning Manager to join our Power Transmission &
Distribution (T&D) Substation team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in
delivering substation projects across North East Scotland and continually seeking to
make the energy system cleaner. Demand for clean, secure energy is rising, to meet this demand there is a significant industry investment.

You'll work on multi-million pound projects ranging from substation extensions to
new-build substations, supporting the delivery of critical infrastructure that powers homes, communities, and industries to help revolutionise and decarbonise the future of energy. The Commissioning Team is UK based, with regular travel to project sites in North East Scotland.

What you'll be doing

You'll lead all aspects of commissioning delivery across the lifecycle of our substation
projects, from tendering and technical support to on-site execution and handover.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Act as the go-to technical expert on substation commissioning, supporting tendering,
design, operations, and delivery teams

Oversee commissioning strategies from early contractor involvement through to final
handover

Provide technical guidance across HV/LV & P&C equipment testing to SSE
commissioning standards

Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and procedural standards across all
commissioning activity

Provide on-site project support for commissioning issues, and availability to assist
with commissioning when required.

Lead commissioning input during all project stages

Develop outline and detailed commissioning programmes

Develop accurate recourse forecast for future projects

Build up commissioning costs for tendering

Attend project handovers, ensuring smooth transition from design to delivery

Manage and mentor a growing commissioning team (engineers, technicians, and
sub-contractors)

Forecast and allocate resources across multiple projects.

Confirm competence and authorisations of all commissioning resources

Monitor progress, spend, and performance against plan

Attend commissioning panels, site progress meetings, and provide regular updates to
Project Managers

Continuously improve testing and commissioning productivity, innovation, and
delivery outcomes

Who we're looking for

Extensive hands on substation commissioning experience within the Electricity
Transmission environment

In-depth knowledge of transmission commissioning procedures for HV / LV and
Protection and Control equipment testing

Ideally HNC (or higher) in Electrical Engineering or similar discipline

Proven ability to manage remote technical teams and commissioning subcontractors

Solid understanding of industry documentation and commissioning QA/QC processes

Proven Stakeholder Management, including customer, client and internal interfaces

Ideally possess experience delivering large-scale infrastructure projects

Previous SSE Authorisations and commissioning experience - ideally

Ideally Degree-qualified in a technical discipline

Familiarity with digital commissioning tools and reporting platforms - Ideally

Ideally Chartered Engineer Status

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We're making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we've got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We're looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com