Site Commissioning Engineer — LV Switchgear

London and surrounding area | Nationwide travel | Permanent
£45,000 – £58,000 DOE, plus company vehicle, accommodation, overtime and all expenses

Are you an electrician who's spent years installing and testing LV switchgear, and wants to get onto the commissioning side properly?

This is one of those roles that doesn't come up often. Our client is an established independent switchgear and busbar engineering house with two senior commissioning engineers in place, and they're bringing three new engineers in to train to their own standards and procedures.

You won't be thrown in. You'll be developed into full Level 2 to Level 4 and integrated systems testing by people who've been doing it for years. Most firms poach finished commissioning engineers rather than build them, which is exactly why the people who have those skills are so hard to replace.

The work

Testing, commissioning, fault finding and energisation of LV switchgear and associated power distribution, across commercial, industrial and critical infrastructure projects including data centres.

• Secondary and primary injection testing
• Protection relay configuration and verification
• Functional testing of control circuits and interlock verification
• Instrument transformer testing
• Live commissioning, energisation and load testing
• Operational proving, final function verification and client witness testing
• Changeover and failure scenarios
• Protection and trip testing, control and metering interface testing
• Integrated Systems Testing, including BMS and EPMS signals and control responses
• Fault finding and diagnosis on LV electrical systems
• Commissioning reports, test records, red line drawings and final documentation
• FAT and SAT participation

What you'll need

• NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installation or equivalent
• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS 7671)
• Hands-on LV switchgear experience — switchboards, panels, distribution, busbar
• Full UK driving licence
• Happy to travel nationwide and work away when the job needs it

Nice to have, not essential

• ECS or JIB Gold Card
• Data centre or critical power experience
• C&G 2391 Inspection and Testing
• SSSTS or SMSTS
• Experience around protection relays, metering, circuit breakers or control systems
• LV Authorised Person

What you get

• £45,000 – £58,000 depending on experience
• Company vehicle or vehicle allowance
• Accommodation covered from day one when working away, All expenses, travel, fuel and food allowance
• Overtime paid to JIB rate guidelines, Pension contributions
• 25 days holiday, 8am to 4pm, paid on the last working day of the month
• Genuine training and development into a specialism that's in short supply
• High profile infrastructure and mission critical projects

If you're an LV switchgear electrician who wants to be a commissioning engineer, send your CV through or get in touch for a confidential chat

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