Senior Commissioning Manager

Join Hitachi Energy's HVDC business and play a key leadership role in delivering some of the world's most complex and innovative energy infrastructure projects.

As a Senior Commissioning Manager, you will lead commissioning teams across multiple HVDC and High Voltage projects, ensuring safe, efficient, and successful project execution from pre-commissioning through testing, energization, start-up, and final customer handover. Beyond project delivery, you will be responsible for developing people, growing organizational capability, and driving commissioning excellence across the business.

Working from Västerås, you will collaborate with project teams, customers, and global stakeholders while helping shape the future of commissioning within one of the fastest-growing areas of the energy sector.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Commissioning Manager, Commissioning Lead, or Senior Commissioning Engineer looking to step into a broader leadership role with significant influence across people, projects, and business performance.

• Lead commissioning activities across multiple HVDC and High Voltage projects, ensuring safe, efficient, and successful execution.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to Commissioning Managers, Commissioning Engineers, and site teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive commissioning strategy, planning, and execution from pre-commissioning through energization and customer handover.
• Support resource planning and workforce allocation, ensuring the right competencies are available across a dynamic project portfolio.
• Partner with Project Managers, Engineering Managers, Project Directors, and customers to achieve project objectives and delivery milestones.
• Oversee the development of commissioning plans, procedures, schedules, risk assessments, and execution methodologies.
• Act as a senior escalation point for technical, operational, and resource challenges within commissioning activities.
• Foster a culture of safety, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across commissioning teams.
• Lead customer-facing activities including site reviews, progress meetings, acceptance testing, and project closeout discussions.
• Ensure compliance with contractual requirements, quality standards, HSE regulations, and Hitachi Energy procedures.
• Drive lessons learned, best-practice sharing, and process improvements across the commissioning organization.
• Support talent development, succession planning, and recruitment activities to strengthen long-term organizational capability.

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Extensive commissioning experience within HVDC, High Voltage transmission, substations, power systems, utilities, renewable energy, or large-scale industrial projects.
• Proven track record leading commissioning teams on complex infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders across project execution, engineering, construction, customers, and contractors.
• Strong understanding of commissioning methodologies, system testing, energization, and project delivery processes.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, and team development.
• Strong planning and resource management capabilities across multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience working within international and multicultural environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage senior customers and business leaders.
• HVDC experience is highly desirable; however, candidates from transmission, substation, generation, oil & gas, process industries, or other complex commissioning environments are encouraged to apply.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

You are a leader who thrives in complex project environments and excels at bringing people together to achieve common goals. You combine technical expertise with strong commercial awareness and a passion for developing high-performing teams.

You lead by example, communicate with confidence, and take ownership of challenges. Most importantly, you understand that exceptional project delivery starts with exceptional people development, collaboration, and safety culture.