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ECI Senior Commissioning Systems Engineer
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Salary: Competitive Salary plus Veolia benefits (Pension, Bonus, Car/Car Allowance)
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Rugby, hybrid working with some travel to customer sites
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About the Role
The ECI Senior Commissioning Engineer provides expert leadership and strategic oversight for commissioning highly complex Control and Instrumentation systems, ensuring flawless transition from design to full operational readiness. This role defines commissioning strategies, establishes best practices, and sets quality standards across multiple projects while leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and managing technically challenging, high-risk activities.
As a ECI Senior Commissioning Engineer, you will serve as the primary technical authority for stakeholders and clients, the role drives innovation in commissioning methodologies and ensures strict adherence to safety, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
What We Offer
- 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Refer an Engineer to us once you've joined and earn £1000
- Access to our people's pension scheme
- Free physiotherapy service
- Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
- Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
- Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
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Responsibilities
- Provides expert leadership for commissioning teams across multiple projects, mentoring Senior Engineers and serving as highest escalation point for technical and personnel conflicts.
- Has ultimate authority to define and approve commissioning strategies, technical architectures, and resource allocation across project portfolios with strategic planning 6-12 months ahead.
- Serves as primary executive technical liaison for clients, regulatory bodies, and stakeholders in high-stakes negotiations, formal program reviews, and critical milestone approvals.
- Holds ultimate accountability for cultivating strategic customer relationships, securing follow-on business, and shaping proposal development for new opportunities.
- Drives strategic environmental impact across programs by establishing frameworks for environmental control systems commissioning and optimising parameters to maximise energy efficiency and waste reduction.
- Provides executive governance for environmentally-focused processes, ensuring regulatory compliance and certifying that commissioned systems deliver intended environmental benefits including reduced emissions and improved efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, or related technical field with relevant platform certifications.
- Expert proficiency in Rockwell Automation (Studio 5000, FactoryTalk, Allen-Bradley drives) and ICONICS Genesis64 SCADA platforms.
- Proven expertise with major instrumentation vendors (Siemens, ABB, Yokogawa, Honeywell, Schneider Electric) and industrial communication protocols.
- Advanced skills in system integration, network configuration, OPC/OPC-UA setup, database management, and metering systems.
- Experience of strategic commissioning leadership with multi-vendor environments, including mentoring engineers and ensuring regulatory compliance.
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We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
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