Commissioning and Service Manager

Commissioning and Service Manager

Up to £50,000 + company car

Nottingham (UK wide travel)

Responsibilities:

• Installation and commissioning of bulk materials handling systems potentially consisting of mechanical, electrical and software components
• Ability to set up a safe working environment with Health & Safety controls and act as principal contractor on large installations in accord with Construction, Design, Management (CDM) regulations.
• Able to manage sub-contract / 3rd party labour in their installation of silos, machines and plant cabling
• Prepare training documentation and present customer/end user training
• Day-to-day management of assigned commissioning engineers
• Must be capable of organising own work schedule to suit customer requirements and management objectives. This will involve;
  • Liaising directly with customers to organise site visits
  • Writing own and others Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS)
  • Organising tools and equipment from hire companies
  • Organising own and others travel, hotel/overnight accommodation if head office involvement is not possible
• Emergency call-out work to attend site or via remote connection, telephone, e-mail. This may involve weekend work and, by agreement, may include work that is out of normal working hours
• Writing professional, quality reports for site visits. This will include photographs, site data, equipment performance reports and calibration certificates
• Seeing the opportunity to promote business between the customer and the business in terms of plant/process extensions, upgrades and any spares sales. Reporting this back to management
• Present a pleasant and professional image – to the customer and be able to communicate at all levels
• Support to sales staff in terms of providing time, resources and material estimates and installation and commissioning plans for proposals
• Support to the Engineering Manager and/or Project Manager for reporting and accurate estimation of timescales and requirements

Required skills:

• Apprenticeship / HND or degree preferred
• 10 years’ experience of installation and commission of equipment in an industrial environment
• Experience in industry holding a supervisory position.
• Experience of working under CDM regulations, ideally as principal contractor
• In-depth knowledge of weighing principles, Lean phase, dense phase and vacuum conveying systems
• Capable of working for long hours under pressure.
• PLC / SCADA / Database skills / knowledge would be an advantage
• Ability to suggest mechanical / electrical / software changes to improve the design and function of the equipment to benefit both current and future installations
• Ability to fault find / trouble shoot across all aspects of a customer’s installation
• Understanding of basic commercial issues.
• Taking pride in doing a good job
• Be proficient using Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and Project
• Accurate in estimation of timescales for own and others work within a project
• Present a professional approach when interfacing with customers directly
• Experience of working in foreign countries would be an advantage.