Senior Commissioning Manager

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Commissioning Manager to lead commissioning teams across complex energy infrastructure projects worldwide.

Based in Västerås, you will play a key role in driving commissioning execution, developing people, planning resources, and ensuring successful project delivery from pre-commissioning through testing, energization, start-up, and customer handover.

As part of a growing commissioning organization, you will combine technical expertise with strong leadership capabilities, helping to build high-performing teams while supporting the delivery of HV and HVDC projects that are enabling the global energy transition.

This role is ideal for an experienced Commissioning Manager or a Senior Commissioning Engineer ready to take the next step into leadership.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead commissioning activities across multiple projects, ensuring safe, efficient, and successful execution on site.
• Provide leadership, direction, and support to commissioning teams throughout all phases of project delivery.
• Plan and coordinate commissioning resources, balancing workloads and optimizing workforce utilization across projects.
• Collaborate closely with Project Managers, Commissioning Managers, Engineering teams, and customers to ensure project objectives are achieved.
• Develop and maintain commissioning schedules, procedures, and execution plans aligned with project requirements.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of complex technical and operational challenges during commissioning, testing, and start-up activities.
• Build strong relationships with customers, contractors, and key stakeholders, ensuring effective communication throughout project execution.
• Lead customer-facing commissioning activities, including site reviews, acceptance testing, and project handover.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, contractual, and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor and develop Commissioning Engineers, helping build future leadership capability within the organization.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, knowledge sharing, and best-practice implementation.

• Proven commissioning experience within power, energy, utilities, industrial, transmission, or related infrastructure projects.
• Strong site-based experience with a solid understanding of commissioning challenges and project execution.
• Experience with High Voltage (HV) systems, substations, or power transmission projects.
• Previous leadership, supervisory, or people management experience is preferred.
• HVDC experience is advantageous but not essential.
• Strong stakeholder and customer management skills.
• Experience planning and coordinating work across multiple projects or commissioning activities.
• Strong organizational and resource planning capabilities.
• Ability to lead teams, drive accountability, and manage challenging conversations when required.
• Engineering degree or equivalent technical background preferred.

• Lead commissioning teams on some of the world's most complex energy infrastructure projects.
• Play a key role in growing and developing the commissioning organization in Västerås.
• Work with industry-leading HV and HVDC technologies.
• Develop your leadership career within a global and collaborative organization.
• Contribute directly to projects supporting the world's transition to a more sustainable energy future.