Electrical Commissioning Engineer

Role Purpose
The Electrical Commissioning Engineer provides technical, planning, and documentation support from the Cape Town office to project teams across Ireland, the UK and Europe. The role 
supports a consistent commissioning process from design through handover by defining scope, preparing and controlling deliverables, maintaining accurate project data, and providing timely remote technical assistance.

Roles & Responsibilities
• Support the Commissioning Lead in planning, coordinating, tracking, and reporting electrical testing, turnover, and commissioning activities across assigned projects.
• Review scopes, specifications, drawings, schedules, submittals, and contract requirements. Prepare project familiarisation outputs including deliverables, acceptance criteria, owners, and key dates; to prove system commissionability.
• Develop and maintain electrical asset and system lists, tags, boundaries, interfaces, dependency matrices, and drawing pull packs against the latest approved design information.
• Prepare and control commissioning strategies, implementation plans, check sheets, test scripts, method statements, and IST documents. Maintain Levels 0-5 schedules,lookaheads, and trackers aligned with the programme, and system dependencies.
• Review SLDs, schematics, layouts, cable and panel schedules, protection studies and settings, control philosophies, and cause-and-effect documents; to cover utility supplies, MV/LV switchgear, transformers, generators, UPS and batteries, busway, distribution, cabling, earthing, lightning protection, lighting, metering, and associated controls.
• Prepare and review project test sheets and packs, including panel charts, pre- and post energisation checks, point-to-point tests, busbar inspections, earthing and bonding, torque records, protection values, marked-up drawings, photographs, approvals, and retest evidence. Confirm completeness, traceability, and technical consistency.
• Review vendor FAT/SAT procedures, certificates, test packs, and submissions. Confirm valid calibration, prerequisites, instruments, acceptance criteria, and sign-off evidence.
• Develop or review temporary-power, load-bank, and Levels 4-5 power-cascade plans. Support energisation, switching, outage, isolation, and LOTO documentation.
• Administer commissioning and common data platforms, including asset records, document and script uploads, system transfers, revision control, and company records. Support L1-L3 readiness and tagging for CFCI/OFCI assets, programme activity 
identifiers, walkdown status, drawing packs, checklists, invitations, and lookaheads using verified site information.
• Maintain trackers, dashboards, action registers, snag lists, and non-conformance logs. Follow up actions, verify close-out evidence, and prepare accurate daily/weekly reports, spreadsheets, Power BI updates, and presentations.
• Provide structured remote technical support, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. Coordinate interfaces with mechanical plant, BMS, EPMS, fire alarm, life-safety, and controls, and escalate significant safety, quality, programme, or technical risks.
• Support handover by checking turnover packs, certificates, as-built records, O&M manuals, training records, signoffs, and actions. Participate in coordination meetings and required visits, FATs, SATs, witness tests, or IST; improve templates, lessons learned, procedures, and digital workflows; and comply with company policies on data security.

Requirements
• Recognised qualification in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, Building Services Engineering, or a related discipline, with typically 3+ years of relevant engineering, commissioning, or mission-critical project experience.
• Practical knowledge of electrical distribution and commissioning documentation, with the ability to interpret drawings, specifications, schedules, vendor data, and test results and convert them into clear actions and deliverables.
• Strong technical writing, record-keeping, document-control, revision, and traceability skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required; experience with drawing tools, commissioning platforms, reporting tools, and snagging systems is advantageous.
• Clear written and spoken English; able to work with geographically diverse teams. Must be eligible to work in South Africa, willing to work from the Cape Town office, and available for project travel when required.