Lead Commissioning Engineer - Mechanical

• Location: Sellafield Site, Cumbria - Hybrid working available
• Travel: On-site mainly / Manager's discretion for hybrid working pattern.
• Project Duration: Expected until May 2026, as end date has been pushed back from originally 2025.
• Rate: £46.00 > £54.63 p/h
• Other: BPSS clearance will be needed to start, and you must be eligible for the requirements.

We're partnered with a prominent Civil Engineering organisation delivering a major Joint Venture project at the Sellafield Nuclear site. This position will take the lead on mechanical commissioning, with a primary focus on systems involving pumps and valves, ensuring compliance with nuclear industry standards and safety protocols.

• Ensuring Safety is the highest priority on the project with a continued strive towards Zero Harm. They ensure that they are a role model for all aspects of safety, ensuring a proactive approach to nuclear, radiological, conventional and environmental safety.
• Leading a team of Commissioning Engineers and Technicians.
• Leading all testing activities throughout all stages of commissioning.
• Supervising the production of commissioning test documentation.
• Supervising and organising of Commissioning Technicians and support resources.
• Supervising the initiation and implementation of FOBs and TQs
• Liaising with the regulatory compliance representatives to ensure witnessing of commissioning activities is expedited.
• Recording and management of Temporary Commissioning Aids.
• Recording of supporting data in accordance with test requirements.
• Ability to utilise completions management systems to manage commissioning activities, and handovers from construction to commissioning and commissioning to client.
• Ability to schedule work and to manage work against a project schedule.
• Ability to take part in multi discipline design reviews and work with the engineering team.
• Actively drives continuous improvement within the commissioning process.
• Actively drives progress to meet schedule deadlines.

• Time served or equivalent in an engineering discipline e.g. mechanical discipline
• Preference for HNC or equivalent or route to achieve the qualification
• Project commissioning experience
• Experience with process commissioning, vessels & pumps
• Ability to achieve security clearance requirements
• IOSH Managing Safely (or equivalent)
• CSCS card

If interested, please reach out to Jasmine White at ARM Recruitment for more information, or apply via the link and we will review your CV as soon as possible due to this role being urgent.

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