Commissioning engineer

Commissioning engineers supervise the final stages of a project when systems are installed and tested. They inspect the correct functioning of the equipment, facilities and plants to make sure they meet the requirements and specifications. They perform the necessary verifications and give approval to finalise the project.

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Commissioning engineers are responsible for ensuring facilities and installations are calibrated to run properly in preparation for full start-up. True project managers at heart, they need to establish and ensure the commissioning of new facilities complies with all the processes and plans in place. They may work directly for clients (e.g. Fives) or within companies for a range of internal customers and departments (e.g. Suez Environment commissioning engineer roles). 

The life of a commissioning engineer...

  • Planning and organising the various phases of commissioning new facilities
  • Verifying facilities comply with the regulations in force
  • Bringing facilities into service
  • Providing technical support 
  • Drafting operating procedures and equipment manuals 
  • Training operators
  • Reporting on the progress of commissioning procedures 

Fun fact

Aircraft may share the sky with birds, for the most part, without issue, but the occasional collision can’t entirely be avoided, which can have dramatic consequences for both parties! In order to test the resilience of early aircraft, humans invented a formidable piece of testing kit – the chicken cannon. As the name might suggest, it fires out frozen chickens at high speed towards the most vulnerable parts of an aircraft (windscreen, turbine engines, etc.). Many chickens have given their lives to science in this way, although gelatine blocks are increasingly used nowadays, which are a good imitation of the density of a bird, but not quite so messy.

Skills

Hard skills

  • Monitor manufacturing quality standards
  • Perform risk analysis
  • Cad software
  • Internal auditing
  • Project commissioning
  • Set health, hygiene, safety and security standards
  • Use office systems
  • Ensure compliance with environmental legislation

Soft skills

  • Self-organization
  • Human projection
  • Teaching and mediation

Typical educational background

  • 2 years of higher education, various subjects, depending on the seniority of the role

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