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Senior Commissioning Engineer
Hampton, Middlesex
This role plays a vital part in delivering Thames Water AMP7/8 projects. As a Senior Commissioning Engineer, you’ll lead the commissioning phase across the project lifecycle ensuring safe, efficient MEICA delivery from design through to takeover. Working closely with Project Managers, you’ll develop commissioning strategies, oversee technical compliance, coordinate supply chain activities, and drive high standards of safety, quality, and performance.
You’ll contribute to design development, champion continuous improvement, and support successful project handover. This is a senior position suited to someone experienced in water ‑ industry MEICA commissioning who enjoys problem ‑ solving, collaboration, and leading teams.
What you'll be doing:
Project & Technical Leadership
- Lead MEICA commissioning activities across the full project lifecycle.
- Provide technical oversight to ensure compliance with design, regulatory, and Thames Water Asset Standards.
- Develop commissioning plans, strategies, and documentation; monitor progress and reporting throughout delivery.
- Coordinate design input from the supply chain and ensure integration into project plans.
- Support project handover through effective management of snagging, defects, and performance testing.
Safety, Quality & Compliance
- Implement and maintain MEICA safe systems of work, identifying new risks where needed.
- Undertake regular safety inspections and promote safe behaviours.
- Ensure delivery meets quality standards, engaging with the Quality Team and contributing to quality plans.
- Ensure Electrical & Mechanical safety rules are consistently applied.
Stakeholder & Supply Chain Coordination
- Act as a technical interface with clients, designers, specialist support functions and subcontractors.
- Support procurement of MEICA installation teams and subcontract packages.
- Ensure commissioning and installation programmes are aligned with the main contract programme.
- Coordinate specialist training requirements with suppliers/subcontractors.
Resource, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Identify MEICA/commissioning resource needs and manage allocated teams.
- Provide regular updates on technical performance, risks, and forecasting.
Capture and share best practice, encouraging continuous improvement.
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About you:
The successful candidate should have:
- Significant experience in the water industry.
- Strong MEICA and commissioning leadership experience.
- Proven technical capability in water‑industry mechanical, electrical, and process equipment.
- Ability to manage commissioning through design, procurement, installation and handover phases.
- Experience coordinating subcontractors and supply chain partners.
- Strong understanding of health, safety and environmental management.
- Excellent planning skills with the ability to work to tight timelines.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- CSCS or ECS card.
- EUSR National Water Hygiene Card.
- SSSTS (minimum) or SMSTS (preferred).
- BS7671 (18th Edition).
Ideally, the successful candidate would have:
- Experience undertaking the role of LV Electrical Authorised Person.
- First Aid at Work qualification.
- COMPEX.
PROFIBUS commissioning/maintenance experience.
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What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £3.8 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.
We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.
Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.
Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.
Our Benefits:
We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
- A wide range of corporate discounts
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Comprehensive pension plan
- Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
- Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
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About us:
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our business please contact [email protected]
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.
A full job description for this role is available upon request.
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