I&C Commissioning Lead

Posted 4 years ago

Role Outline/Responsibilities:

Client Overview:

As part of the Responsible Designer for the Hinkley Point C (HPC) project, our Client provides Engineering Design support for the Balance of the Nuclear Island (BNI).

This role is a member of a large integrated team seconded into Client team focused on providing high quality design, engineering knowledge & expertise.

Assignment Scope:

Within the Commissioning Department (ESS) is the reference entity for:

Commissioning Engineering:
Commissioning test doctrine elaboration,
Commissioning skills animation and support,
Commissioning test programs definition
Technical support to sites during commissioning phase
Test results analysis and validation, regarding functional requirement
Commissioning test performance on site

For Hinkley Point C (HPC) project, the Commissioning department (ESS), based in Montrouge (France), is involved in Commissioning documentation preparation, as part of the contractual commissioning file issued to the customer Nuclear New Build (NNB). The NNB customer is then responsible for Commissioning test performance at HPC site. Nevertheless, ESS to provide an assistance to the customer for test performance on site, analysis of test results and treatment of potential test anomalies during this phase.

In order to prefigure and secure the future teams involved in site commissioning activities, the NNB customer is asking for the creation of a commissioning group within ESS structure in Bristol, aiming at developing local commissioning skills, through the writing of a part of the associated commissioning documentation. Those skills will further be able to be part of the future site commissioning teams.

Main Activities:

Under the authority of the Commissioning Section Manager, the I&C Commissioning Lead will be in charge of the commissioning engineering activities related to following systems:

Following items make up the scope of commissioning engineering deliverables (some of them may be not applicable to a given system):

Plat-form Test Procedure (PTP) and its related study file used for tests executed at test bay (France)
Sufficiency Analysis Note (SAN) and its related study file demonstrating the proper test coverage of the safety and key environmental functions assigned to a system
System Commissioning Programme (SCP) and its related study file
Commissioning Procedure (CP) and its related study file

Such activity is based on design documentation, Client engineering methods, standards and processes as well as commissioning documentation and feedback from other EPR projects.

The I&C Commissioning Lead will undertake the following 5 main tasks – this list does not claim to be exhaustive:

Daily technical coordination of the commissioning documentation progress entrusted to the commissioning group located in Bristol (called ECW)
Management of the technical interfaces UK & France (e.g. I&C engineering, commissioning group located in France and in charge of a portion of the I&C commissioning deliverables) or suppliers (e.g. FRAMATOME delivering TXS and UNICORN safety systems) or CNEPE (in charge of the Conventional Island). It aims at making sure the commissioning set of deliverables related to the main I&C systems will meet the requirements in terms of test coverage (no gaps) and use a consistent method for their production regardless of the authors (surveillance activity)
Support to NNB (plant’s owner) for any technical and organisational aspects related to I&C systems commissioning
Elaboration and/or review of some of the UK based commissioning deliverables
Participation in test bay tests for the execution of the PTP

Dimensions:

Frequent travels to France are expected mainly for technical meetings with the engineering departments and Commissioning group located over there but also for the execution of functional tests on the I&C platform hosted near Paris. Travels inside the UK or in other countries than France may be required as well.

Later on (from the beginning of HPC site commissioning activities), the mission will turn to a site commissioning support activity for I&C systems (e.g. NNB Commissioning Instructions – derived from EDVANCE commissioning procedures – validation, test results validation, treatment of anomalies or non-conformances raised during I&C systems and equipment commissioning).

During this second phase, the I&C Commissioning Lead will be based at Hinkley Point site, either within the future “Commissioning Engineering Team” in the frame of the commissioning support to NNB (not yet contractually agreed) or with the “Commissioning Operational Team” (not yet contractually agreed) in charge of the execution of the tests. As such, the willingness to move close to the site is a pre-requisite for that position.

Business Travel: Ability to attend frequent meetings in France

Key Competencies:

Leadership – Day-to-day technical coordination of an I&C commissioning team
Ability to propose it-for-purpose technical solutions in his / her area of expertise
Capability of coordinating technical topics which may involve several engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, I&C) and suppliers
Good writing skills with a focus on the drafting of test procedures and test coverage substantiation files
Rigorous especially for adherence to procedures in force including configuration management
Rigour in the production and review of deliverables
Ability to work in an international and multicultural environment
Good oral expression skills
Relational ease especially with customers and local regulators
Aware of HSE and IT security aspects

Notes:

Note1: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities & activities that the job holder may be required to undertake

Note2: Based on our Client office Monday to Friday – 40 hours per week

Note3: Travel and Subsistence is not paid for this role

Note4: Please provide travel plan to Bristol to undertake this role / salary expectation / current notice period on Cover Letter with this application

Qualifications

Essential:

Engineering degree in automation field
At least one significant experience in I&C commissioning activities based on TXP plat-form
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work in a team as well as on own initiative
Results focused with the ability to meet commitments & deadlines
Highly organised with attention to detail
Ability to identify continuous improvements
Fluent in English – written & verbal

Desirable: