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Lead Commissioning Engineer ( Mechanical )

  • Location: Cumbria, CA20 1PG
  • Salary: Dependant on experience
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 1 day ago

  • Sector: Nuclear
  • Contact: Anna Bowden
  • Contact Email: Anna.Bowden@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: +44 1946 820 002
  • Duration: Initial 8 months
  • Start Date: 06 January 2026
  • Expiry Date: 05 February 2026
  • Job Ref: V-297816-1
 
NRL is currently recruiting a Lead Commissioning Engineer- Mechanical to join one of our leading clients in their Nuclear team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a high-performing project team within a critical sector, supporting the delivery of complex engineering works on a key site within the UK’s nuclear fleet.
 
Role- Lead Commissioning Engineer
Rate- £55.65 p/h (UMB)
Location- Cumbria, Seascale
 
The Lead Commissioning Engineer is responsible for:
  • 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

Essential Experience & Qualifications:
  • 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
  • IOSH Managing Safely (or equivalent)
 
 
 

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