Commissioning Manager

Commissioning Manager

Location

Southern France

Contract Type

Annually Renewable Contract

Project

Major industrial development focused on Green Steel.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement commissioning strategies, execution plans, schedules, and procedures.
• Coordinate commissioning activities across structural, mechanical, piping, and associated disciplines.
• Establish commissioning priorities, system boundaries, and handover requirements.
• Work closely with engineering, construction, and project management teams to ensure commissioning readiness.
• Identify commissioning risks, resolve technical issues, and implement corrective actions.
• Oversee the transition from construction to mechanical completion and commissioning.
• Coordinate system inspections, equipment checks, pressure testing, flushing, and other pre-commissioning activities.
• Monitor mechanical completion progress, outstanding works, and punch-list closure.
• Ensure all systems meet technical, quality, and safety requirements before commissioning.
• Verify the availability of commissioning documentation, procedures, and relevant test certificates.
• Coordinate commissioning activities between EPC contractors, subcontractors, equipment suppliers, and the client.
• Monitor contractor performance against project schedules and commissioning milestones.
• Participate in technical meetings, progress reviews, and commissioning readiness assessments.
• Manage interfaces between SMP, electrical, instrumentation, process, and operational teams.
• Provide regular progress reports to project management and key stakeholders.
• Ensure commissioning activities comply with project HSE requirements and applicable regulations.
• Oversee the implementation of safe working procedures, permit-to-work systems, and isolation requirements.
• Support commissioning risk assessments and the development of safe execution methodologies.
• Ensure commissioning records, inspection documentation, and handover dossiers are completed in accordance with project requirements.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent technical qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience in construction, mechanical completion, pre-commissioning, and commissioning on major industrial or EPC/EPCm projects.
• Previous experience in a Commissioning Manager, Commissioning Lead, Mechanical Completion Manager, SMP Manager, or comparable senior position.
• Strong technical understanding of mechanical equipment, process piping, pressure systems, and industrial plant installations.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary contractors and coordinating complex construction-to-commissioning interfaces.
• Knowledge of commissioning methodologies, system handover processes, quality documentation, and HSE requirements.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

Desirable

• Previous experience working on the Stegra project in Boden, Sweden, particularly within SMP teams.
• Experience in green steel, direct reduced iron (DRI), hydrogen production, or other major energy-intensive industrial facilities.
• Previous experience working for major EPC/EPCm contractors or engineering consultancies.
• Experience with commissioning management systems, systemisation, turnover packages, and mechanical completion certification.
• Experience working on major European industrial construction projects.