Commissioning Manager

Adsearch is currently looking for a Commissioning Manager to join an international project, leading the commissioning, integration and stabilization of automated systems at customer sites.

This is a key position within highly complex industrial projects, involving automation, software, robotics and system integration. The successful candidate will play a central role throughout the commissioning, start-up and ramp-up phases, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring that the system reaches the agreed performance levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the commissioning strategy and key milestones.
• Develop and maintain the commissioning plan, including testing scope, test sequence, protocols, acceptance criteria, resources and schedule.
• Monitor readiness prior to commissioning and drive outstanding actions to closure.
• Coordinate FAT readiness reviews and pre-commissioning activities.
• Identify integration and commissioning risks and define appropriate mitigation actions.
• Provide commissioning input into project planning, including duration estimates, resource requirements and realistic milestones.
• Verify dependencies between project disciplines before site execution.
• Coordinate activities across Software, Automation, ICT, Robotics and Site Operations.
• Manage interfaces and dependencies between different project disciplines.
• Set integration priorities and commissioning objectives across teams, ensuring everyone works according to the same sequence and acceptance criteria.
• Drive the resolution of integration issues impacting project progress.
• Coordinate third-party suppliers and subcontractors involved in commissioning activities.
• Ensure interfaces between subsystems are clearly defined, version-controlled and tested before the system moves to the next phase.
• Lead commissioning activities at customer sites and adapt the plan as site conditions evolve.
• Define testing priorities and execution sequences.
• Own the site punch list and drive issues through to closure.
• Coordinate daily commissioning activities across disciplines, subcontractors and customer teams.
• Monitor progress against commissioning milestones.
• Escalate any matters affecting scope, cost, schedule or contractual commitments to the Project Manager.
• Represent the Project Manager on site within the agreed scope of authority.
• Ensure commissioning activities comply with company safety standards, customer HSE requirements and applicable local regulations.

Customer Operational Coordination

• Act as the primary operational interface with the customer throughout commissioning.
• Coordinate operational activities and agree daily and weekly execution priorities with customer teams.
• Monitor customer commissioning prerequisites and drive them to closure.
• Ensure customer issues are assigned to the appropriate teams, prioritized and followed through to resolution.
• Facilitate effective communication between customer representatives and project teams.

Start of Production & Stabilization

• Lead operational activities during Start of Production.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary support teams during ramp-up.
• Ensure production ramp-up progresses in line with project objectives.
• Monitor system performance and operational stability and drive corrective actions.
• Support stabilization activities until the system is successfully handed over to the customer.
• Ensure start-up activities comply with safety, HSE and applicable local regulatory requirements.

Progress Monitoring & Reporting

• Track commissioning progress against project plans and milestones.
• Monitor effort spent versus actual progress achieved.
• Coordinate status reviews and follow-up meetings.
• Provide regular progress reports to the Project Manager and relevant stakeholders.
• Identify execution risks and communicate recovery actions.,

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in commissioning, start-up, system integration or industrial project environments.
• Solid experience with automation, industrial software, robotics, ICT or system integration.
• Knowledge of acceptance testing, commissioning, start-up and operational readiness processes.
• Proven experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, subcontractors and customers.
• Strong planning, coordination and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to make decisions and manage competing priorities in high-pressure, business-critical environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder manageme