Commissioning Engineer

We are seeking a Commissioning Engineer to join our team, responsible for carrying out all aspects of commissioning gas turbine-powered equipment at our Centrax facilities and customer sites worldwide. Working to the highest standards of quality, safety, and performance, you will play a key role in ensuring the successful installation, testing, and handover of equipment, while also supporting maintenance activities and pre-commissioning testing prior to site delivery. This is a varied and rewarding position offering the opportunity to work on cutting-edge engineering projects both in the UK and across the globe.

Main responsibilities

• As a Commissioning Engineer, you will demonstrate leadership, a willingness to accept responsibility and the ability to supervise and develop other engineers. You must demonstrate the ability to work well in a team, encouraging co-operation in others and working independently when required.
• Conduct product commissioning activities at Centrax and customer sites worldwide in accordance with procedures, specifications and regulations, ensuring the successful handover of equipment to Centrax customers. This will include both Electrical and Mechanical aspects of testing, cold and hot commissioning of various gas turbine packages and associated equipment, validating equipment and ensuring compliance with customer requirements.
• Flexible attitude towards working location and working hours, global travel to client sites as and when required to meet agreed deadlines. The post holder is expected to travel extensively overseas to global customer sites to commission products onsite. This post will be Newton Abbot site based when travel is not required and it is likely when not commissioning the Commissioning Engineer will provide support to other departments such as test and controls.
• Prepare and diligently follow detailed Commissioning schedules, procedures and programmes.
• Accurately document commissioning data, collating in respective databases, and/or promptly communicate to respective parties.
• Prepare and diligently follow risk assessments and method statements for Commissioning activities and test activities.
• Identify and initiate non-conformances found throughout the process and communicate via the appropriate systems (Faults Database, NCR). Ensure acceptable and meaningful preventative actions are implemented to enhance further product development regarding reliability, cost reduction, Health & Safety etc. Utilise feedback regarding issues with products, practices, and procedures for continuous improvement.
• Undertake and manage a wide variety of activities, prioritising workload to meet changing work schedules in a rapidly changing environment, including supervising and controlling onsite sub-contractors and activities to ensure that the work is completed to the necessary quality standard and timescale.
• Monitoring work areas and plant for maintenance and calibration, ensuring availability and conducting maintenance and calibration activities following procedures, documenting and reporting results, improving practices and identifying areas for improvement.
• Attend and participate as appropriate in various virtual and in-person meetings to ensure requirements are understood and met.
• Responsible for Health & Safety and Environmental issues concerning commissioning, ensuring procedures are followed, and actively promoting safe working practices.
• To review and amend as appropriate processes and documentation to provide continual improvement to working practices, processes, and overall efficiency.
• Provide remote assistance to field service engineers and other commissioning engineers where required.
• Provide product-related training and coaching to other members of staff and customers.

Qualifications and Skills

• Knowledge and experience in the testing and commissioning of gas turbine packages and installations
• Multi-disciplined qualified engineer, HNC/HND or degree in an engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organisational skills
• Ability to understand technical electrical and mechanical drawings
• Excellent fault-finding skills on both electrical and mechanical equipment.
• PLC control code understanding and development experience (Allen Bradley RS Logix is preferred)
• SCADA understanding and development experience (Wonderware preferred)
• Generator protection knowledge and experience
• Strong computer literacy
• Well-informed regarding Health and Safety legislation
• Understanding of Gas turbine and ancillary equipment operation and control
• Knowledge of gas turbine performance test requirements
• Knowledge and experience regarding the vibration and fault diagnosis of rotating equipment
• Knowledge and experience with communications protocols, Profibus, Ethernet, Modbus etc.