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Commissioning Engineer
Commissioning Engineer – Environment
Locaton: Bodmin
What You Will Be Doing
This Commissioning Engineer role presents an opportunity to join Galliford Try’s team in Bodmin, with opportunities to travel across sites and projects in the South West Region.
Primary Purpose of the Role: Your primary responsibilities will revolve around the planning, execution, and documentation of commissioning activities on South West Water projects and works programmes, ensuring compliance with **Client and Galliford Try (GT) frameworks, processes, systems, and procedures.
Reporting Structures: This role fits into a matrix management arrangement, reporting to:
- The Project Manager for planning, progress, safety, and quality
- The Commissioning Manager for project allocation, governance, and training needs
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop the Design Phase Commissioning Plan collaboratively with the Client’s commissioning representatives, culminating in the Delivery Phase Commissioning Plan. Ensure it is supplemented by Risk Assessments and Commissioning Procedures.
- Lead and document periodic commissioning meetings, with a HAZCOMM review at the start of each project’s commissioning phase.
- Coordinate site commissioning activities to ensure project requirements and timelines are met, working with the Site Manager as needed.
- Maintain up-to-date commissioning documentation on the Common Data Environment, verifying that testing requirements are fulfilled.
- Agree and deliver the training plan with the Client, ensuring delivery aligns with the project’s programme requirements, including coordinating specifically commissioned training and feedback sessions.
- Mark up drawings and amended documents during commissioning, updating the Common Data Environment for finalized project versions.
- Lead the reliability and performance testing phase, including the production of a report detailing compliance with Client objectives.
- Assist the Project Manager in resolving post-completion defects.
About You
Essential Experience and Skills:
- Proven experience in the safe and successful commissioning of complex projects within the water industry, preferably in a contracting environment.
- Strong financial and commercial awareness to analyze changes and assess their impact on projects.
- Outstanding communication skills to engage effectively with Client and project teams, ensuring successful project delivery.
- A structured systematic approach to tackling complex problems and documenting actions and outcomes.
- Proficiency in generating concise reports for commissioning deliverables.
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams to achieve project targets and deadlines.
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Specific Technical Knowledge:
- Excellent working knowledge and understanding of:
- Sewage and water treatment processes, systems
- Typical mechanical & electrical (M&E) plant and equipment
- Strong grasp of structured commissioning processes and quality management systems, emphasizing accurate and clear record-keeping.
- Experience in safety management systems, including behaviour-bases approaches, preferably with the ability to:
- Issue and manage safety documents to control risk effectively on behalf of the company.
Qualifications
Essential:
- CSCS or ECS card (possessing an appropriate discipline)
- EUSR Water Hygiene Card
- CITB Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS)
- First Aid at Work certification
- Confined Spaces Entry (Medium Risk) qualification
Desirable:
- Requirements for Electrical Installations (C&G 2382)
- CompEx ExF/DSEAR Awareness
- Certified PROFIBUS Installer
- PROFIBUS Commissioning and Maintenance
What We Can Offer in Return
As one of the industry’s leading principal contractors with an ambitious £3.8bn order book, Galliford Try offers the following:
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Challenge: Work on the UK’s most exciting projects, keeping abreast of industry trends to challenge yourself professionally.
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Growth: Join diverse, high-level professional teams and thrive in an environment that encourages career progression.
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Wellbeing: A dedicated ‘Be Well’ programme supporting physical and mental health, offering discounted health products, advice, and counselling.
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Development: Commitment to high-quality training, including:
- Leadership development
- Apprenticeship programmes
- Tailored Career Path initiatives, ensuring alignment with individual aspirations.
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Flexibility: Agile Working to accommodate varied work preferences, balancing remote, on-site, and hybrid models where feasible.
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- Benefits Package:
- Generous holiday entitlement (accruing with service) with an enhanced option to purchase additional leave.
- Corporate discounts and Cycle to Work schemes tailored to support work-life balance.
- Comprehensive pension plan, including regular Save as You Earn share purchase schemes.
- Private medical insurance and an employee assistance program offering 24/7 free support.
- Memberships in professional associations relevant to every role.
About Us
Named Contractor of the Year by the Water Industry Awards, Galliford Try combines expertise and innovation to deliver environmental excellence:
- People and Values-Driven: Organic commitment to stakeholder equality, community impact, and progressive leadership.
- Purpose: "To improve people’s lives by addressing the infrastructural needs of communities through pioneering environmental solutions".
- Actions: Pivoted on collaboration, integrity, and aligns external relationships to engender long-term value projected stakeholders.
Our Environment Business, providing “source to sea” applied capabilities across the UK and Scotland, has consistently contributed:
- Over £2bn fulfilled under AMP7 frameworks for clients such as Yorkshire Water, Thames Water, Anglian Water, Southern Water, Welsh Water, and Scottish Water.
Join us at this strategic evolution point in shaping a future ready, digital world fit industry leader poised to increase environmental, design, and productivity standards.
Additional Notes
- Galliford Try welcomes flexible working requests, emphasizing individual needs within feasible scope.
- We actively promote diversity, taking steps to minimize qualification biases in hiring. Candidates are encouraged to apply if passionate despite non-alignment with all requirements.
- As a Disability Confident employer, we commit to interviewing candidates with long-term health conditions or disabilities provided they meet essential role requirements. For additional considerations and adjustments, kindly contact the Resourcing Partner directly via Ryan De Stadler (ryan.destadler@gallifordtry.co.uk). üements for the current and future needs of the water industry.
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