Commissioning Manager

Siemens Energy; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Private medical cover

Class-leading pension scheme

Job summary

Siemens Energy in Manchester seeks a Commissioning Manager to lead HVDC commissioning for large-scale, world-class energy projects. You will guide activities from factory testing to on-site execution, coordinating multidisciplinary teams across borders and ensuring safety, quality, and contractual compliance.

The role demands strong leadership, excellent communication, and willingness to travel internationally.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering, Energy Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience commissioning large-scale power generation, transmission, HVDC, or energy infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership skills coordinating multidisciplinary and international teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the safe, reliable, and efficient commissioning of HVDC projects from factory testing through to site execution.
• Coordinate and develop international commissioning teams, ensuring collaboration and high performance.
• Oversee Factory System Tests (FST) and Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), ensuring quality, safety, and contractual requirements.
• Drive effective communication and coordination between project stakeholders to enable successful site execution.
• Support project management activities including risk management, quality assurance, claims management, and non-conformance resolution.
• Ensure full compliance with health, safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements throughout all commissioning activities.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Travel internationally

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Electrical/Energy Engineering degree

Job description

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Commissioning Manager within our HVDC business, you will play a critical role in bringing some of the world's most advanced energy infrastructure projects to life. Working with multinational teams across engineering, project management, and site operations, you will lead commissioning activities from factory testing through to on-site execution.

You'll be responsible for ensuring HVDC control, protection, and high-voltage systems are safely commissioned, fully compliant, and ready for operation. This is a highly visible role offering the opportunity to work on large-scale international projects that directly support the global energy transition.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Lead the safe, reliable, and efficient commissioning of HVDC projects from factory testing through to site execution.
• Coordinate and develop international commissioning teams, ensuring strong collaboration and high performance throughout project delivery.
• Oversee Factory System Tests (FST) and Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), ensuring systems meet quality, safety, and contractual requirements.
• Drive effective communication and coordination between project stakeholders to enable successful site execution.
• Support project management activities including risk management, quality assurance, claims management, and non-conformance resolution.
• Ensure full compliance with health, safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements throughout all commissioning activities.

What You Bring

• Degree qualified in Electrical Engineering, Energy Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience commissioning large-scale power generation, transmission, HVDC, or energy infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership skills with experience coordinating multidisciplinary and international teams.
• Good understanding of project management principles, risk management, and project delivery.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders across multiple functions and locations.
• Willingness to travel internationally, including extended site assignments where required.

About The Team

Our Grid Technology team enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Working within the HVDC Control Team, you will contribute to the development, testing, and commissioning of innovative solutions that support the growing demand for secure, efficient, and sustainable power transmission around the world.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably.

The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served
• Access to a flexible benefits portal for private medical cover, cycle-to-work schemes, and more
• A class-leading adjustable pension scheme
• Opportunities for career development and continuous learning
• The opportunity to work on major international HVDC projects supporting the global energy transition
• Exposure to cutting-edge grid technology and global engineering expertise