Commissioning Assurance Manager

Ready to take on a pivotal role in our company's operations? As a project commissioning manager within Capital Delivery, you'll be instrumental in developing and maintaining our water and water assets.

Your leadership in managing Thames Water MEICA and commissioning engineers will ensure project outcomes align with operational requirements, constraints are identified, and commissioning is holistic across engineering disciplines. This role is crucial in driving innovation and best practices across major projects, contributing to our mission of delivering life’s essential service.

What you’ll be doing as a Project Commissioning Manager

• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders ensures work is undertaken according to an agreed programme.
• Ensuring that all deliverables, including documentation and training, are to the requirements of Thames Water
• Assurance of commissioning through all phases of project delivery. This includes reviewing contractor/consultant documentation for buildability, commissioning, and final delivery.
• The critical role also involves integrating the new works into existing plants and proactively working with the operational client to manage risk to active process streams.
• The role will manage a team of multi-discipline engineers to support delivery.

This role will be based on a hybrid basis suitable to your home location within the Thames Water regions, so there must be flexibility to travel across the Thames Water regions 2-3 days of their 36-hour week.
The successful candidate must drive and have access to a car, and this role comes with a £5.8k car allowance.

What you should bring to the role

• Knowledge of Mechanical, Electrical and control system engineering in commissioning new plant assets.
• Engineering Degree qualified or equivalent.
• Significant commissioning experience.
• Able to manage a team of multi-discipline engineers.
• Able to build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders.
• Able to manage a range of physical and digital deliverables to specified requirements and the operator's satisfaction.

What’s in it for you?

By joining the Major Projects division of Thames Water Capital Delivery, you'll have the opportunity to work on prestigious projects as they move to the critical system commissioning phase. You'll be part of an experienced multidiscipline team, providing the leadership and direction for the team to ensure a smooth commissioning and handover of the new assets. This role offers a unique chance to contribute to significant projects and enhance your professional skills.

• Competitive salary from £60,000 to £78,000 per annum.
• This role will come with a car allowance of £5,800 per annum.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Annual Bonus.
• Private Medical Health Care
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.